[tinysofa-discuss] Classic vs Enterprise Question

[John Coonrod]

Since I"m the one who asked the question - let me say that I LOVE the 
answers, and I LOVE that people are working hard to keep both these 
distributions going.

In terms of letting the world know, I HEARTILY endorse having Omar list 
the key selling points on the importance of each distribution on the 
website, leading with the small install size of TCS.



Andy Bakun wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:21 +0200, Gerald Dachs wrote:
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>>>I don't think the size of the base install is really a significant
>>>differentiator between TCS and TES.
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>>I was so free to tell my opinion, and in my opinion that is significant.
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>Yes, and I disagree on it's significance.  Our positions on this were
>covered in the previous two messages in this thread.
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>If one could fit TES in 128 megs (and I think it's possible, at least
>with optimized packages), then the fact that you can fit TCS in 128 megs
>is irrelevant to making a decision as to which should be used based on
>base install size requirements.  This was _my_ only point.
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>>Btw. it was not the only point I had mentioned.
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>Yet, it was the only point I had an opinion on.  This does not mean your
>other points were invalid -- quite the contrary.
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>>I have worked hard to contribute many rpms for tcs over the last months.
>>I never got any positiv responses. Now it sounds that you (and maybe more)
>>think that tcs and my contrib work is obsolete. Is there anybody on the
>>list that has another opinion? Do I have a reason to continue?
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>Only stagnant Linux distributions are not worth using.  If TCS is
>active, then there is no reason that someone shouldn't explore using it
>and see it as an option when choosing a distribution.  I don't think the
>state of TCS is adequately communicated on the tinysofa website if these
>kinds of questions come up.  For example, TCS is kind of a second-class
>citizen on the tinysofa.org website -- the default page is for TES, the
>link to TCS is near the bottom (similar to how an "older" version is
>provided for convenience, but the suggested version is the "newer" one).
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>(it is also slightly confusing, most likely more so to new users, with
>how the website remembers (via a cookie) if you were last "looking for"
>TCS or TES.  This is a good attempt at giving TCS and TES the same
>importance, but I think it falls kind of short of the mark.  I'm not
>sure how this would best be fixed.  Note that if you don't have a
>cookie, you get TES by default -- thereby communicating to possible
>users which one one should choose).
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>But there is obviously some level of confusion as to why there are two
>modern and current distributions named tinysofa.  The bullet points
>under "why should I use tinysofa" for both TCS and TES are largely
>equivalent.  The use of the term "classic" also implies "older" and "we
>started doing things a different way in the non-classic versions", which
>is unfortunate because TCS and TES exist for different reasons, uses and
>target markets, none of which has anything to do with their age.
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>The problem may be that there are two distinct distributions named
>"tinysofa", and the "classic" and "enterprise" monikers do not really
>communicate their differences.
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>I personally have not used TCS for any significant amount of time, only
>TES, so my experience in exactly how they differ is pretty limited.
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