Rescue and Installation (was Re: VI reasons)

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Shorter
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I believe the right solution would be to design a separate, true, rescue > disk (what we now call the rescue disk is, in fact, the installation boot > disk) that has none of the installation software installed, but simply > boots into a single user shell

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Shorter
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > How about the following variation on the theme? > > Rather than starting a for-profit business as a value-added seller of > Debian products, why not start a not-for-profit, user centred, > association that does the same job? It would work a bit like

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-23 Thread Steve Shorter
On 23 Jan 1999, Paul Seelig wrote: > and annoyances they'd have with Debian. They won't care about > Debian's rather unaccessable technical superiority if the installation > hinders them from getting the beast at least easily up and running and > will recommend SuSE to the rest of the world. Tha

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-23 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, thomas lakofski wrote: > > I also am disappointed with the attitude of some people towards making > these things easier to do. Is it some kind of techno-snobbery, maybe? There is nothing wrong with making things easier. Simplicity is an important technical value. B

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-24 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > installation easier requires hard work. If it would be easy, it would have > been long done. The trick is to keep flexibility (and don't tell me SuSE is > flexibel). Doing it easy for the newbie and configurable for the experienced > user requires a w

RE: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > > On 28-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote: > > While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be > > nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that > > we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Mu

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-31 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Anderson MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote: > >> > Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wing

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Steve Shorter
On 18 May 1999, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of The Linux Professional > Institute, which is non-profit corporation attempting to provide > standardized certification across all Linux platforms. Normally, such > rhetoric as he spouts in this article (and a

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: > > we're not here to get 100% market share, or 50% or even 20%. we're here > to make the best system we can and share it amongst ourselves and with > others, and also to encourage others to join in the effort. > IMO the property relations that e