about debian

2004-02-27 Thread tristian radford
Hi i just wanted to know some info on debian my friend at college tells me all about it and he says it all good but what it is i was thinking about using debian (im currenly using mandrake) because it has its own installer which makes it easyer to get things and i head alot of good things about

Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Peter Cowley
Hello everyone in Debian-land. I'm working on helping the community of people who use SME server, a Redhat Linux based server formerly maintained by Mitel Corp. It used to be called e-smith server before that. Mitel have recently spun off the free version to the existinguser community at

Re: about debian

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Ribnitz
tristian radford wrote: Hi i just wanted to know some info on debian my friend at college tells me all about it and he says it all good but what it is i was thinking about using debian (im currenly using mandrake) because it has its own installer which makes it easyer to get things and i head

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
To my personal mind, why would anyone choose anything other than Debian or Fedora (or Slackware or Gentoo for the masochists)? Debian is where it's at - DEB packaging is Borderline flawless: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html And if you must cow-tow to the RPM masses, pick the biggest

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 23:01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: To my personal mind, why would anyone choose anything other than Debian or Fedora (or Slackware or Gentoo for the masochists)? Debian is where it's at - DEB packaging is Borderline flawless: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 27 February 2004 13.01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: To my personal mind, why would anyone choose anything other than Debian or Fedora (or Slackware or Gentoo for the masochists)? [...] I guess this was not the question at all. Recent flamewars have shown again and again that there are

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:50:17PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: - long release cycles: I guess this is something that has its cause not only in the organisational structure, but also in the people that fill the roles. Most people relevant to the release process in Debian have stability as

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 27 February 2004 15.33, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:50:17PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: - long release cycles: I guess this is something that has its cause not only in the organisational structure, but also in the people that fill the roles. Most people

Re-distributing Debian

2004-02-27 Thread Robin Imrie
Dear Sir/Madam, We are about to start developing some software which will run on Linux. The product which we sell to our customers will include the hardware, os (Linux) and our software all pre-installed and ready to go. Any support would be handled by us. If we were to install the parts of

Re: Re-distributing Debian

2004-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Robin Imrie dijo [Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:15:20PM -]: Dear Sir/Madam, We are about to start developing some software which will run on Linux. The product which we sell to our customers will include the hardware, os (Linux) and our software all pre-installed and ready to go. Any support

Re: Usage of Debian Structure Documentation, Social Contract etc

2004-02-27 Thread Peter Cowley
Hi Zenaan Thanks for your email. We will have to look at the underlying distro we use, eventually, but at this point in time we have a much bigger task and that is getting our community organised - that in itself is the primary challenge. There has been talk of what to do about the base distro,