On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:00:13PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > but that Solaris itself is not
> > particularly well suited to PC-class hardware (because it has less
> > drivers, or whatever).
>
> This is true, but OpenSolaris is getti
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:46:49PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > hmmm... I don't think a sane seasoned Solaris admin would evaluate a
> > Unix-like operating system for server-class work by installing its
> > 'Desktop' task, perhap
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:46:49PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> hmmm... I don't think a sane seasoned Solaris admin would evaluate a
> Unix-like operating system for server-class work by installing its
> 'Desktop' task, perhaps?
A seasoned Solaris admin may very well be of the opinion tha
[Sorry for sending the message only to you John =(]
Em Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:03:52 -0500
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> Not if this is their first exposure to Debian. Say you were a
> seasoned Solaris admin, and you installed Debian to play around with.
> You get a prompt saying that
> Please don't mess with gettext this way. You should ask Ubuntu people to
> rewrite the lines so that the 'branding' is removed or, at most, is handled
> by a variable that *is* replaced at runtime (this is what was introduced in
> Debian Installer). If you do string-based replacement you are goin
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> The second feature is quite cool; update-notifier uses hal to detect
> that a new CD/DVD was inserted and tries to figure out whether that is
> a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and to
> avoid mes
Em Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:58:53 +0900
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> Maybe a way to solve the problem would be to make clear in the package
> name, documentation and popup messages that it is not a native Debian
> tool? For instance, it could be called "Ubuntu update notifier for
> D
Le Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:03:52PM -0500, John Goerzen a écrit :
>
> Say you were a
> seasoned Solaris admin, and you installed Debian to play around with.
> You get a prompt saying that you have to reboot because zlib or
> something has been upgraded. Are you going to think this is a serious
> o
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> The second feature is quite cool; update-notifier uses hal to detect
> that a new CD/DVD was inserted and tries to figure out whether that is
> a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and to
> avoid mes
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:45:02PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:26:51 -0500
> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
>
> > To say that any library fixing security problems will require a reboot
> > is outrageous. It is quite possible to restart any impacted ser
Em Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:31:50 +0200
Michal Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:29:13 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> [...]
> > a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and
> > to avoid messing with translations, the messages have Ubuntu
> >
Em Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:38:20 +0200
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > update-notifier is a program made by the Ubuntu guys which puts a
> > notification icon in the notification area and warns the user a
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> update-notifier is a program made by the Ubuntu guys which puts a
> notification icon in the notification area and warns the user about
> updates being available, and allowing them to run update-manager (a
> simple upgrade man
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:29:13 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
[...]
> a Ubuntu CD; I patched the program to also look for Debian CDs, and to
> avoid messing with translations, the messages have Ubuntu replaced by
> Debian in runtime, after the translation is got from gettext if the CD
> that was
Em Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:26:51 -0500
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> I understand that this tool may be aimed at those that don't have a
> great deal of experience, but I think that you are presenting
> misleading information to everyone.
Exactly.
> To say that any library fixing secu
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 08:29:13PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>
> The first feature is useful for those packages which are critical, and
> which really want a reboot after upgrade, such as kernel, perhaps libc,
> and any library or package fixing security problems. These simply need
> to
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