Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
complies, Certification is inherited? Thats what they are planning. Thanks Bruce

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
se schedule slip again. I am hoping that once Sarge releases, we can continue to have weekly reports on RC bugs, continue bug-squashing parties, and in general do the most we can to keep the distribution on a ready-to-release footing on a continual basis. Thanks Bruce

LCC and blobs

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
t, which I don't feel it is while the blobs live in drivers. An alternative is to make blobs their own loadable modules, but then we are treating them as code rather than as just a file that the kernel sends to some device, and we get GPL issues. Thanks Bruce

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Bruce Perens
t see that you have to do everything modulo 18 months. Thanks Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
concern to FSF, but RMS is pretty clear that it's never ethical to distribute them. Thanks Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
it really belongs in FLASH on your device, don't expect us to distribute it for you. Once it's in the device, it's below the demarcation of the bus programming interface, and thus outside of our domain. Thanks Bruce

On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
e design, BLOBs belong in files, not the driver. The 2.6 kernel boots up with at least initramfs accessable to it, and later initrd, if it needs a BLOB it should load it from there.     Thanks     Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
BLOBs. Thanks Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
Glenn, If you don't have a physical copy of the device, the driver doesn't work either. Very similarly to the way it would act if you don't have the firmware. The problem is that we have to distribute the firmware when it's a BLOB.     Thanks     Bruce Glenn Maynard wro

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
ut in that case the byte stream was the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" per the GPL. In the case of a BLOB, that's not the case. The BLOB code was compiled and assembled at some time, from a source file you don't have.     Thanks     Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
iving manufacturers thusly, for reasons I enumerated in my post "On the freeness of BLOB-containing drivers". Thanks Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
will eventually wear it out and make the device non-functional. Modern devices are specified for at least 10,000 writes, often hundreds of thousands, and unlimited reads. You don't have to worry about this. Thanks Bruce

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
would. Contrib is there to tell you that something is DFSG-free but is not functional without a non-DFSG-free component. Contrib provides a a message to the user and a convenience for the Debian developers, it is not a purgatory for almost-free software. Thanks Bruce

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Bruce Perens
ndencies on non-free software. Indeed, it does not require that the program be functional. So, we are talking about a lesser distinction than Free vs. Non-Free. Thanks Bruce

Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
t be in non-free due to license violation. That's why I say the BLOB should be in a file rather than the driver. Have the driver send the file to the device. It's I/O rather than part of the driver. Then, you can consider the license issues of the BLOB individually from any o

Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
on the firmware and goes to contrib? When does it depend and when suggest? This is a policy decision outside of the DFSG and the social contract, and we can be flexible about it.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
free component if the whole system won't work without it. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
m linux? As a matter of fact, Linux has drivers for some motherboard FLASH chips under the MTD stuff. I don't know who uses them. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Darren Salt wrote: A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally "thumb" (the 8-bit ARM instructions). No. THUMB is a 16-bit instruction set. Oops. You're right.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIM

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
;s control. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
se permanent physical damage to the device. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
rdware market that can replace the proprietary one. And I am afraid that we insist on that and don't get it, that it will sink us.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
sublicensed code which the vendor is not at liberty to release.' My eCos book has not sold very well. I don't believe that we are making big inroads into the market of embedded operating systems that are smaller than Linux. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cry

If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
on to raise the money for this.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
Andrew Suffield wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:07:35AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: It will take fund-raising to do it. ^&&##$@@. There goes that "free software is impossible" argument again. Well, maybe I'm doing the wrong thing to feed a tr

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
ation using the same process. The price list for Mosis is here. There might be a need for more than one turn at Mosis before we get it right.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Free ASICs.

2004-12-13 Thread Bruce Perens
ts to do fabrication runs once you have the mask. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Perens
ies. There are other mechanisms, such as branding, that create perceptual rather than legal barriers.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: Aha, I see where you found this in my original note (although you didn't quote it). In that paragraph, "thousands of dollars" was just an example for illustration, although I chose the magnitude of the cost from one of the links Bruce posted (I recall

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
re of their products. Also, please make sure to tell the upstream maintainers that we aren't going to use their code any longer, because we have decided that it's a bad idea to outsource the core of our product. Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
when necessary. Security would be a good reason to do so, if LCC is being tardy compared to Debian. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
I feel is not warranted. You assume that the other distributions concerned with this matter will wish to run rough-shod over Debian's policies and your own quality process, without giving you a say. We have no reason to believe that yet.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
Bill Allombert wrote: But overriding them means we lose the certification ? We can't allow it to be the case that overriding due to an existing and unremedied security issue causes loss of certification. There's no common sense in that. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Descripti

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
anything to put against it. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
Bill Allombert wrote: Then could you elaborate the scope of the certification ? It's still a matter for negotiation. If the certification won't admit to common-sense rules, it won't work for anyone - not just Debian. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
iness decisions boil down to" is too vague to have meaning. What you may be groping at is that some publicized policy can be taken as a promise. The organizations participating in LCC have chosen to make such promises. Thanks Bruce

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Bruce Perens
GCC fiasco was due to a change in calling conventions. I said we'd standardize that.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-16 Thread Bruce Perens
more people to appreciate Free Software if you can get it into their hands first. If they have no choice but to stick with RH and SuSE because they can't get their stuff supported elsewhere, they will never get our message.     Thanks     Bruce

GPL and LGPL issues for LCC, or lack thereof

2004-12-16 Thread Bruce Perens
f the license. I don't see any language in the LGPL specifying a support obligation of any kind.     Thanks     Bruce

Re: The LCC is a bad idea, but that doesn't mean the LSB doesn't have any issues

2004-12-16 Thread Bruce Perens
rate that its development has been going. In addition, it is not the best possible technical solution to getting a bunch of Free Software-based distributions to be more compatibile with each other.     Thanks     Bruce

Re: The LCC is a bad idea, but that doesn't mean the LSB doesn't have any issues

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
s. This is certainly a form of certification. Indeed, Debian makes use of similar certification for its Official CD.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: GPL and LGPL issues for LCC, or lack thereof

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
m not sure whether to take you seriously or not. Your reading of these licenses is so far off that I wonder if you're just playing with me to see if I can actually find the flaws in your argument.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: The LCC is a bad idea, but that doesn't mean the LSB doesn't have any issues

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
pport. But if you are going to modify the program, it only seems fair that you should take on the support burden for your modification. Thanks Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: GPL and LGPL issues for LCC, or lack thereof

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
would accept who will bring a swift close to this discussion.     Thanks     Bruce smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Do you want XFree86 working out of the box?

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
So, I did this a few days ago, and ddcprobe was not in any Debian package. Also, it got the mouse as /dev/input rather than /dev/input/mouse, and the resulting X configuration didn't work. It would be really nice if it worked. Thanks Bruce Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Do you want a wo

Re: GPL and LGPL issues for LCC, or lack thereof

2004-12-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Olaf van der Spek wrote: Is that really JPEG? Or JTAG? That's all we need, lossy ROM image compression :-) Yes, JTAG. Thanks Bruce

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
or things like boot-floppies where a patch for one architecture, done carelessly, might break another. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
ody checks in an un-reviewed patch, even if they do have commit privilege. Anyone with commit privilege can review it for you and give you an OK to check it in, but it takes two people. It tends to make us think a bit harder about what we are doing. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
make this work. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
file to handle the packages.debian.org domain, and that would look up the package name and map it to the maintainer address, and remail messages to the maintainer. This is not a terribly complicated hack, but I got busy. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just tell me what you want qmail to do for you and point me at the > sh/whatever scripts you started working on. I think we already have Joey (Martin Schulze) working on this today. Please check with him. Bruce -- Bruc

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Aegis looks interesting. I'd like to see how it works on top of a physically-distributed development using CVS. Do please package it when you have time, Phil. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: ncurses back on hold...

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Any new work I do will use slang rather than ncurses. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: just making sure we're all really this quiet

1997-06-01 Thread Bruce Perens
Everybody's holding their breath waiting for the release to come out. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
doesn't sell a non-free "power Linux" and reserve features for his commercial version? Someone who wanted to put the effort into supporting the drivers and could convince Linus to go along could probably change the situation - I hope such a person comes along. Thanks

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
ltas, but never unmodified binaries. > However, commercial use is no problem as long as the software > is NOT being commercially distributed. Somewhat sloppy language. > Is "deb" packaging a modification? (philosophical doubt) We change pathnames and locations of files. Br

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Bruce Perens
different. GPL-ed software gives you the right to change the source, and gives you right to link other GPL-ed software to it on all platforms. Debian doesn't presently have a rule against libraries that pass the GPL infection, although we prefer to avoid them. Thanks Bruce -- Bruc

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-03 Thread Bruce Perens
voided > if you ask me. (did you ? :-)) Kees, I'm Bruce Perens, project leader for Debian. I have your mail with John Goerzen. It's clear that you don't want people to make an un-deserved profit from your software. I've included a _draft_ copy of the Debian "socia

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-03 Thread Bruce Perens
fferent from the GPL's. Among the options you are given is to put the modifications in the public domain or assign them to the copyright holder. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint =

1.3 installation report

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "J.P.D. Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > We are in the process of releasing Debian 1.3 . Tonight I made another attempt to install base + 300 packages. I've added the list to the end of this message. I experienced a _major_ pro

Packager needed for Freedom Desktop

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
There is a GPL-ed version of "Freedom Desktop Lite" at ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz . Someone please volunteer to package this. They GPL-ed it specifically at our request. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL

Re: Debian 1.3 and "alien"

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
> How can we cope with the fact that Slackware support of the Bo > release of "alien" is broken then? It's a bug. We'll have to release a bug fix in a later release. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
ing out that the project is being > contradictory. I'm not so sure. They'll have to spell out their position on modification explicitly. Currently they don't state it at all. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
those who might like > to keep some medium of control over their work. We can't allow it because it prohibits ports, and it prohibits bug-fixes. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 6

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
t like > to keep some medium of control over their work. Bruce Perens: > We can't allow it because it prohibits ports, and it prohibits bug-fixes. From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And this IMO is an entirely cogent and reasonable objection. > > Fo

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
able with that. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&q

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
user community. In this way, the > restriction actually _improves_ the overall quality of the product for > everyone. I think that feeding changes back to the author is a separate issue, and one that we've already promised to do. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
quire_ that modifications in the program be returned to the author. It's just not acceptable for the author to not allow modifications to be distributed. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Bruce Perens
, as does the Artistic license. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Burn Debian 1.3 on CD

1997-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
Use the "debian-cd" package to make your ISO images. It wants a directory "debian" containing a mirror of "bo", "tools", "doc", and "contrib", and the symlink "stable -> bo". I use 4 separate mirror scripts to make this

Re: submitting bug report == unsubscribe ?!

1997-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
There's a big regular expression in SmartList that tries to catch unsubscription requests and delivery failure reports. My suspicion is that it took the string "not found" for a delivery failure report, but I haven't taken the trouble to figure that out. Thanks

Re: Burn Debian 1.3 on CD

1997-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
ppy. You should be able to make the boot image work as a floppy before you put it on a CD. The El Torrito bootable CD format is sensitive about the size, you must use the same size as a floppy - 2.88MB, 1.44MB, etc. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215

Re: Burn Debian 1.3 on CD

1997-06-06 Thread Bruce Perens
g the index file to map CD blocks to floppy blocks. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-09 Thread Bruce Perens
LSL will be selling the official CD. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: points on future installation disks development

1997-06-09 Thread Bruce Perens
enthusiast, and I think his soldering technique might have had something to do with his impaired finger sensitivity. I have a circa-1986 serial DECTalk to test speech output on. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP pu

Re: Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-10 Thread Bruce Perens
In general I disclose as little as possible about what a vendor is going to do, as I'd prefer you ask them. I just spoke up about LSL because people were concerned about how LSL perceived us. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [

Re: dselect installs only main distribution not non-free

1997-06-10 Thread Bruce Perens
I think you have to tell dselect where non-free and contrib are so that it can find their Packages files. It asks about this when you choose an access method. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Official CDs

1997-06-12 Thread Bruce Perens
The ISO image files for the Debian 1.3 Official 2-CD Set are now available at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/OfficialCD . About 4 mirror systems signed up to mirror the CDs, so it looks like we won't have a problem distributing them. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [

booting bzImage with chos

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Chos is able to chain to a LILO boot block on a partition. It worked fine chaining to /dev/hdd, for example. So you can boot bzImage kernels that way until someone fixes "chos". Nice program. I think it assumes that /boot is on the first drive, doesn't it? Thanks

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
know what state S-Lang is in with this respect - that might be your first concern. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBS

Re: booting bzImage with chos

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
on, and to make the first-stage loader get the second-stage from there. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: Proposed new virtual package: zcode-interpreter (long)

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
all mail @debian.org . Please send directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] . They are the two security officers. They may take some time because they have to verify that you are who you say you are, but if it's been a long time it's fair to nudge them. Thanks

Re: Official CDs

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
ot; in FTP and get the 10MB chunks. Even monopolizing Pixar's T1, I found that transfers of one 400MB file generally abort in the middle. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sourcecode is available for chos and it has been GPLed by the author after > several people talked with him (among them me on behalf of Debian). Hooray! Is the GPL-ed version and its source in a Debian package yet? Thanks

Re: thread support

1997-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
at the library is dynamicaly loaded and shared is pretty transparent. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Debian 1.3.1?

1997-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
1.3 has some security problems in X. 1.3.1 will probably have a newer version of X to fix this. At least two manufacturers will be selling the official CD at rediculously low prices, but they have not gone to duplication yet. Soon enough... Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: How do we do modules?

1997-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I think you should build a 2.1.x boot disk using the boot-floppies scripts, since ax.25 is so much nicer in 2.1 it makes no sense to base new work on 2.0 . When you build the kernel, you get to decide what is a module and what is not in the configuration menu. Thanks Bruce

Re: tin copyright problems?

1997-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Ugh. Can someone write to them? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

leap second

1997-06-18 Thread Bruce Perens
rence between the epoch and now to be 22 seconds less than it really is. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-18 Thread Bruce Perens
ist server and the bug system on qmail. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: ftp problems to master

1997-06-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Mike Neuffer is on the road, driving back to Beaverton from here. I sent mail to Simon, and one of you who has root privilege on master might look at the situation, too. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Rob, Steve, and Co., Is this when booting from the floppy only, or from hard disk too? I suspect a software bug in SysLinux, the floppy bootstrap. Once I get some more data from you I will take it up with H. Peter Anvin, the SysLinux author. Thanks Bruce Rob Browning wrote

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Bug in Boot-Disk Package?

1997-06-21 Thread Bruce Perens
ion floppy root would be a RAM disk at this point, and this problem would never come up. I wonder if your boot parameters are wrong, or if it is a 68k-specific issue. Thanks Bruce From: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I found a bug in the installation procedure o

Re: Bug in Boot-Disk Package?

1997-06-21 Thread Bruce Perens
t the root, but it should complain before you partition a disk that the root is running on. I don't know how many people will hit this. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65

invalid CD

1997-06-21 Thread Bruce Perens
If it thinks your CD is an audio disk, it would be an error in the "xaa" file. The very first blocks on the CD tell what kind of CD it is. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 6

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-22 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tried it, and it hangs when booting bzImage from the hard drive too. Please tell me exactly what ThinkPad model this is. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP p

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-22 Thread Bruce Perens
ut this issue. Richard acknowledges the existence of free browsers for HTML. He does, however, want you to write your documentation in TeXinfo format, because it prints better that way, and converts from the document source into HTML reasonably well. I don't think we should de-support "info&qu

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-22 Thread Bruce Perens
To make documentation for packages optional by splitting it into separate packages would not be a good idea at this point. Please wait for Deity to implement more fine-grained control over installation, or let the user manually remove /usr/doc or /usr/info . Thanks Bruce

Re: leap second

1997-06-22 Thread Bruce Perens
ds (number 22 is coming up) have been added since New Years Day 1970 to keep clock time in synch with astronomical time. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 2

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