Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 12 December 2005 12:52 pm, Josh Rehman wrote: And to quote http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/relationship/document_view: As a volunteer organization, Debian has historically been less good at making time-based or predictable releases, and has a difficult time providing

Studies.

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Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:02AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 12 December 2005 12:52 pm, Josh Rehman wrote: And to quote http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/relationship/document_view: As a volunteer organization, Debian has historically been less good at making time-based or

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Erinn Clark
* Josh Rehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:12 12:52 -0800]: You read the transcript: are you saying that you think your fellow operator acted rightly? As a fellow #debian operator, I have to say that I did agree with his actions and probably would've been less patient. -- off the chain like

Linux Magazine Project

2005-12-13 Thread Sasa Matejic
Dear sir I am contacting you as director of Linux Magazine Project. We have founded Linux Magazine project in march 2005.Our goal is to offer free hard copyes of Linux Magazineto it's members on their home addressinforming themabout the news and events in Linux industry

Re: Linux Magazine Project

2005-12-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
So far the financial aspect of our project was very limited. We would like to see Debian as our supporter of project . Debian is a non-profit volunteer organisation, and unfortunately doesn't have the money to support other projects. Good luck with your magazine anyway. -- I think,

Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
One of the problems Linux users in countries like India have is low bandwidth. They prefer to get their distributions on CD or DVD as far as possible. Debian is very badly affected by this as we usually stress updating over the net. At foss.in I spoke with the editor of Linux For You

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 16:02 -0500, David Nusinow a écrit : The result of this leads me to believe that most of the famed integration going on in Ubuntu is the result of the eye-catching theme, the choice of a single default desktop, and good marketing. I had hoped to install Ubuntu on

Re: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10502 March 1977, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: As well as the articles, they distribute a DVD with each issue. I asked the editor if they would be willing to distribute a Debian DVD. He said he had several requests for this before but sarges' 2 DVD size was too big and he was loathe to make

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:29:26AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu tries so hard to be Debian without actually contributing back to=20 Debian. Let them compare on their own channel. The above might variously be described as not entirely

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 10 December 2005 05:45 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.12.10.1358 +0100]: So they can go join #ubuntu. Honestly, not that hard. Type

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: This says you are wrong: http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ So if I were to diff the Debian archive against the Fedora one, I'd be contributing to Fedora? Cool! That'll bolster

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:29:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:22PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: This says you are wrong: http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ So if I were to diff the Debian archive against

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:59:05PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I have been on #debian for a while, and I can understand that you are fully booked. Still, #ubuntu is not the place to which we should send people when they want Debian vs. Ubuntu