ethical ubuntu

[Chanchao]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:17 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> > Repositories are nice to have, but they don't offer reviews or
> > screenshots..  
> 
> Ah - perhaps the Add/Remove Applications and Synaptic tools should have a
> "click here to visit the project's home page" link for each package.

Yeah.. well sometimes a URL is included in the description. Sometimes
not. :)   

But even if there would always be a link, that's getting the use-case
backwards a bit..  Because by the time you're looking at the package in
Synaptic, you ALREADY know the name of it and what it does. 

Suppose you want to run a mail server..  Is Synaptic then the starting
point or the ending point?  I think people will first research on the
web what actually is the best mail server on Ubuntu for them.  So they'd
google 'Ubuntu mailserver' and find a couple, realise that the most
common one is called 'postfix', THEN open Synaptic and search 'postfix'.
That there's a link there to the people who maintain postfix is nice,
but really by that time you've already read all you need about postfix
and mail servers in general.

Sorry to drift off topic with this..   :)

Cheers,
Chanchao