owl-users - Re: Hello? Anybody there?

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:04:09 +0200
From: misiu_ <misiu_@....de>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hello? Anybody there?



> A combination of those, yes.
> Owl is not a very old operating system so it doesn't have a great many 
> users. Usually, there are three kinds of contributors to an 
> opensource-project;
> Developers (the Founding Father and a few of his friends at first, usually)
> Testers (highly experienced users that doesn't exactly need 
> documentation and are often apt at pinpointing the bugs as well as just 
> noticing they exist).
> Documentation writers (usually people who really want to contribute in 
> some way but doesn't have the programming skills required to write code).
> 
So, I write a Install-Docu in german and put it on my website. Do you
need Serverspace? I got 2 GB free let's say 500MB .... can you use it?
It's a fast Server and fast Internet Connection.

> When all this is done, you pretty much just have to sit back and wait 
> for the forums and user-created HOWTO sites to start popping up. Gentoo, 
> Debian, RedHat, Mandrake and other GNU/*/Linux-based distributions have 
> been around for a long time and has evolved faster due to not being as 
> thorough about code reviews as the Owl team.

O.k. I'll wait and see what popps up and I do what I find out or can
do....

misiu

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