Re: Debian 7

2013-05-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
ent process (i.e. users). I've used and evangalized Debian for over 15 years now, and I believe this is the one complaint that never seems to go away! Though that only goes to show what an awesome distribution it is :-) Cheers (and congratulations to y'all on releasing Wheezy)! Shyamal

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread shyamal
perience. You can make the math suggest that this SSD should have died a while ago, or you can make it suggest the SSD will last a decade. I've got 18 months of real usage out of it, and I expect a few more years to be honest. OK, now that I've said it, I'm waiting for the meltdow

Bug#285397: RFP: wmctrl -- Control a EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager

2004-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
an take this over, or otherwise sponsor it for me (which is a route I'd be happy to follow). In any case please contact me if you are prepared to upload this so I can send you the debianized diff. Best regards, Shyamal

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
27;t think it qualifies as being free enough to be in Debian to start with, right? Not that I'm suggesting being rude to upstream, but if it was about opinions there's a few people who'd like to see my "OS masquerading as an editor" go away too ;-) Cheers! Shyamal

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
n: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2960.txt ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3309.txt and for some implementations look around at http://www.sctp.org/ Good luck! Shyamal

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Lasse" == Lasse Karkkainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Surely this is a troll? Lasse> Nope, I'm for real. Maybe a bit provocative, but for real. No way! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Shyamal> The issue I wanted to highlight was that a bf 3.0.19 Shyamal> based netinst ISO works great on this Shyamal> machine(http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst) with all Shyamal> the syslinux features (I can choose a kernel, hit F3 for Shyamal> help, etc.)

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Mike> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Mike> wrote: >> It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a >> 1/19/1997 BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty >> machine for 5 years, and boots the potato r3 CD and a

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
+ based desktop (Award BIOS, KT266A, which also works with Raphael's multiboot images). Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]