Comments on: What is a Community Edition?

By: jj

jj — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:39:16 +0000

64bit and Light (Now known as Universal) are not Community Editions

By: jf

jf — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:16:47 +0000

on a practical note, can I say that the difference between the Community, and the Main edition is that the X-related packages (or rather, your DE-related packages) are different, while everything else is the same? so for eg. in the main edition, you would have gnome panels that manage and display your network status, while in the CE, they would be using a different panel, or software to do this?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:14:42 +0000

I think it’s good that you, Clem, have made a proper distinction between editions. Please do keep up the good work and hope we can move on as a community. Thank you, clem.

By: sundayrefugee

sundayrefugee — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:26:33 +0000

Thanks for the post, Clem, as I’m seeing “Community Edition” start to be abused at your forums. I had hoped that the Debian Mint CE would have more volunteers, but the “call to arms” didn’t produce the needed manpower. I had estimated in my addled brain around 5~ish hackers for a testing-based GNOME, all problems considered, with lots of willing victims. I mean bug-testers 😀 I still hold out hope someday that there are enough community members willing to put forth the time to do that project to the quality level it deserves 😉

In the meantime, to the CE devs, thanks for all of your hard, thankless, and often silent work. It’s much-appreciated by the entire community. Remember, hearing only “GIMMIE!!!” means you’re making a good thing 😉