Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> said:
>[...], I don't think the out-of-box user experience for=20
>Squeak should be equivalent to the "custom" install of Debian where=20
>you have to pick from all of those 10000 packages the ones you want=20
>to load.
>
Nope. That's why companies are now popping up distributing complete,
ready-to-run, end-user-friendly Linux distros based on Debian. I think that's
a healthy situation:
1. People who want minimal setups can do so
2. You create a market(*) where people can freely compete in the field
   of packaging and documentation

So, I vote for 'the board' (the Mouseketeers, duh) to distribute a strictly
minimal 'blessed' image (say like VisualWorks: base plus basic development
tools), and leave the rest up to the dynamics of the market. I think that past
events have shown that it works - after a couple of tries and bad starts, SM
suddenly got mindshare and therefore the lead. It's probably way better now
than whatever we could have come up with in a design-by-committee process.

(*) whether commercial or not, it still is a marketplace...

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