Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles
Marc Haber [2017-08-30 09:01:09+02] wrote: > People keep mentioning to store the private key on a LUKS-encrypted > device. Why? Is the private key encryption that happens inside GnuPG > itself when you protect your private key with a passphrase not > sufficient? A strong passphrase for the key itself is sufficient. Obviously an encrypted partition adds one more layer and have other benefits like hiding the content. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy
Stephan Foley [2016-01-15 22:48:49-05] wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following: > > Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market > > Is this a good characterization or am I off base? You have the old stereotype of Debian. The reality is different: the default Debian desktop install gives you a normal easy-to-use end-user operating system and applications. This has been the case for a long time but many people still maintain old stereotypes. Of course, Debian is for servers and technical people too. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://github.com/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?
* Aron Xu [2012-02-05 16:31:20 +0800] wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:10, Hyun-Gwan Seo westpo...@gmail.com wrote: Official debian website is translated many languages. (i.e. german, korean, français and so on) If I want to see a translated german page, click the 'Deutsch' at the bottom of the web site. How about using national flags? I think that national flags are much more helpful and eidetic than text. What if a language is spoken by more than one country? This is a very common claim and may lead to problem with Debian's longstanding neutral position on international cultural and political issues. Yes, and that's also logic. National flag is a symbol of country and state, not (necessarily) a symbol of language. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vkh3blt@mithlond.arda
Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian
* 2010-04-11 10:31 (+0100), Frank Bauer wrote: yesterday I came across an older laptop that I wanted to upgrade from Windows XP to Debian testing. Since the CD drive went south, I had the only option to use the installation directly from Windows. So I went to the usual http://get.debian.net, used the win32 instaler loader from the first link there, but instead of Debian it started to install gNewsense. Nice All Fools Day joke, but unfortunately off by 10 days. The download link for the Windows installer points to site http://goodbye-microsoft.com which advertises gNewSense. I guess the get.debian.org guys just didn't notice the change (adding a Cc). -- Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notice them. I can't read all the list mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrwefgyb@mithlond.arda
Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes
On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon. Probably not, but the release synchronization with Ubuntu may make them feel that they are working for him, which can be a great demotivation. That's why it would be interesting to hear some concrete ideas how useful this would be for the parties. How pros and cons balance? I'll start: Ubuntu == + Ubuntu always gets a frozen and pretty stable system even if they don't communicate at all with Debian. (This is just a mind exercise, I'm sure there is some collaboration.) + Better-quality LTS releases. Happier users and customers. + More collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers and teams. Debian == + More collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers and teams. - Debian developers may feel that it's Ubuntu which they are working for in the end. Possibly with the feeling that some of the decision-making escapes the Debian developer community. Can be demotivating. - OK, Ubuntu x.04 was released in April but because of their lower quality standards and the 6-month release cycle they most likely won't be helping Debian to fix the rest of the difficult RC bugs. They are already working on their next 6-month period. Ubuntu gets a lot of publicity because of the release but Debian always comes too late, literally always after Ubuntu. (It's worth the wait for many people but the possible negative publicity can be demotivating for Debian community.) A couple of months later eventually the RC bugs are fixed in Debian and there is a release. Ubuntu will apply some of the bug fixes to their LTS x.y.1 releases (3-month point release cycle). This can make some Debian developers feel that Ubuntu gets something for free again without contributing back. Can be demotivating. + Debian's quality probably won't decrease (except for Squeeze maybe). + [Please invent more concrete benefits for Debian developers and users.] Perhaps I'm being too pessimistic. After all what do I know? I'm not a Debian developer, just a user. Thanks you, all developers! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes
On 2009-07-29 10:11 (-0500), Peter Samuelson wrote: I believe freezing four months before an Ubuntu LTS release would not benefit Debian at all. Freezing _after_ an LTS release, or at least after an LTS freeze, would help Debian quite a lot more. I believe the same. Mark Shuttleworth said something along the lines of there's no pressure to agree on everything but a common meta-cycle is useful base for discussion [1]. I kind of agree but the thing is that it's a huge gain for Ubuntu's stability even if Debian and Ubuntu developers don't agree on _anything_. Ubuntu still gets a frozen and fairly stable system to build their LTS release from. Ubuntu will probably release newer versions of major packages anyway so they are (partly) focusing on different bugs. They won't focus on Debian's RC bugs. So what are the real benefits for Debian? --- 1. http://derstandard.at/fs/1246541995003/Interview-Shuttleworth-about-GNOME-30---Whats-good-whats-missing-what-needs-work -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems
Raphael Hertzog (2008-12-20 17:41 +0100) wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: seemed to be more oriented to scoring single posts, while here you are kind of inheriting a score on the poster from his posts. They are two quite different approaches. They are different but if the data is available, it's also relatively easy to imagine ways to do that. Maybe even add an additional header to mailing-list posts, like X-Debian-Author-Karma: +234. OK, maybe not. It's not terribly reliable on public mailing lists because users can change their From addresses as they want. But at least on readers' side this would make configuring email clients rather easy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Happy Birthday Debian
It looks like the August 16th is/was the 15th birthday of Debian: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20064/53/ So let me, a random Debian user, congratulate you all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
