Re: Discuss list

Christian Haugan Toldnes wrote:

> Take a look at the names, and try to find any of them on tsl-discuss the =

> last couple of years. You'll find Danny, but not saying anything that =

> can be interpreted as positive towards TSL. :)

That just made me sound like a bad guy! :-) TSL was great, it was
(my|the) distro of choice a few years ago...

> The only reason for reintroducing Anaconda in 3.0.5 was that everyone =

> that developed the closed-source Viper installer, was by then fired.

And the installer lacked some features IIRC, like kickstart. Correct me
if i'm wrong :)

> The main problem with TSL is not that it's vulnerable to whatever the =

> Comodo management decides, although this is also true. The main problem =

> is that it's a distribution developed by one person, with an active =

> community of about 15 people, and an ever changing user mass.

15? :)

> We, the original TSL developers, measured the download rate of 2.2 and =

> 3.0 before we left the sinking ship in late 2005/early 2006. The amazing =

> thing about the results was not the great amount of downloads each =

> month. The interesting part was WHO downloaded TSL.

Nice stats.

> So the only real answer to Ari=EBns question is:
> No, almost nobody is still reading tsl-discuss, and yes, the vast =

> majority of the community has moved away to other distributions.
> Thank you for reading this, and both Ubuntu and CentOS are decent =

> alternatives to TSL.

Yay. :-)

Danny
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