Re: [OS:N:] For reference http://www.go-opensource.co.za/

[Lincoln Peters <sampln sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:04, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Hmmm... if you wait until people agree on what are the best 700 MB of
> OS software, you'll grow reaaaaaaaaaaaally old, I'm afraid!

I seem to recall that the Debian project has been trying to resolve this
issue (or one that is very similar) with an automated popularity
contest.  If you install the "popularity-contest" package on a box
running Debian/sarge or later, your computer will report to the Debian
project which packages you have installed.  They use that information to
decide which of the 13+ CD-ROM's to place individual packages on (the
most popular packages go on Disc 1, the least popular on Disc 13).

It might be possible to do something similar with open-source
educational software, although I'm not sure how.  I imagine that you
could get started by using the data that the Debian project has already
collected and narrowing it down to educational software and a handful of
productivity applications (word processors, spreadsheets, et al.).

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln sbcglobal net>

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