Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

e point: the event was a month ago and I only learned about it yesterday on linuxdevices.com: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9555158297.html -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® pr

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

eeling (if you read LWN.net) that a lot that happens in Debian today isn't made public. -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® products. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista _

FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

, yum, etc.), and the needs of ISVs in packaging solutions". Has this ever been discussed on Debian ML's? Joey Hess was there. I can't recall any mention of it on the DWN. Why do we [users] have to learn of these things from external sources? Regards -- Ottavio Caruso I w

Elive requires donation to download

Elive , based on Debian, requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if this legally sound. Ottavio Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about th

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

Lech Karol Paw³aszek wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2006 00:07, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: [cut] > > The fact that GNU chose the name "Iceweasel" for their own fork of Firefox > > is extremely unfortunate :-( > > Why it is unfortunate? Because they'll want Debian to call it 'Gnu-Iceweasel' and they'l

Why does Ubuntu have all the wrong ideas (was: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier)

Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That is a *very* bad idea. Even only on a small details, I am please to see a few people on a Debian mailing list not blindly accepting whatever comes from the Ubuntu world. Brand me a troll, but lately this looks like the trend (see debian-project). Ottavio Otta

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

> Just checking: are you already aware of Debian From > Scratch (DFS), which > already does this? > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ At nearly 1/2 gigabyte you can hardly call DFS a recovery cd... Ottavio Caruso -- No individual rep