"The fact that day by day, new people try to use free software or free operating systems (like GNU/Linux) is a good thing, and we all know that. [...] Though, this is also something really delicate, where everybody invloved should (IMHO) be careful in what is shown towards the new comers."
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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I use the Ubuntu Forums a lot, and the reason why instructions are so often given in the context of terminal commands is simple.
The terminal is a universal interface for Linux.
It doesn't matter whether you use GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, AfterStep, Fluxbox, or whatever. The terminal commands can just be copied and pasted without fear of things being screwed up by misunderstandings. The probability of a user getting mixed up as you try to guide them through a GUI method of doing the same thing is much higher.
Even a trained chimp could copy and paste, the GUI is actually harder to work with in this case. The solution is not to struggle trying to explain what various user interface terms mean but to try and get past fear of the terminal.