HTML Convertors/Generators

[Duane Attaway]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Quoting Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu>:
> 
> > JEdit ... bluefish ... quanta ... Kate
> 
> How about some relative merits?  One of the problems often cited about
> major linux distros is that they throw all of these different tools for
> the same job at you, and your only option is to spend hours learning
> one, then hours learning another, then another, then choose.  I mean,
> anybody can do a search on Freshmeat and come up with a list of
> programs, but which is worth spending the time learning?

Imagine for a moment a free distribution with a searchable directory tree
with different applications neatly organized.  A concise listing.  The
cream of the crop.  With a brief description of each, including a html
link to the webpage, and of course, an easy install.  Sound too good to be
true?  That's gentoo.  Granted, the command line is a different paradigm
than the windowed world and it does take a little english to extract the
information.  But, I don't mind typing in 'ls' and the search command with
'emerge -s' to extract information from the listings.

I would estimate a year before we have an "explorer" version of gentoo's 
portage, where we can browse packages.  Complete with different search 
filters.  Click to install, of course.

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