Re: Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

2011-04-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 14 April 2011 23.37:16 Steffen Möller wrote: On 04/14/2011 11:28 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I think a case could be made for Debian's apt system being the original app store Yes. That's what I wanted to say in

Better visibility of what can you do with Debian on the Debian main page

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yodel! (I'm obviously picking up on the discussion sparked by the Med@Tel report/ blends on the main page thread) I had a quick look at the kde.org and gnome.org pages. I think the blends on main page is a sub-topic of what can you do after you've installed Debian. On both the gnome.org and

Re: DELL

2011-03-31 Thread Adrian von Bidder
!) Should you wish to put your customers into contact with Debian engineers on a professional basis, have a look at our list of support companies at http://debian.org/consultants Regards Adrian von Bidder Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Registration of Debian Logo unrelated to Debian

2011-03-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, On Friday 25 March 2011 14.43:32 [-R.I.P.-] - Макс wrote: Hello! You logo use without link! http://tm.patent.su/40-400999/tm/servl/servlete1dc.html loock this. it's pattent! Thank you for notifying us. I don't speak russian well, so I hope somebody else can translate what this page

Re: Italian dealer

2011-03-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, On Friday 04 March 2011 17.01:31 Paolo Repossi wrote: I wanted to know if and how it could be mentioned on your website under get a pc with debian We already offer support linux / debian to some of our customers. Great to hear from shops that sell Debian preinstalled! You can get (a

Re: What's the release plan in next 6 or 12 months?

2011-02-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 11 February 2011 06.58:29 Zongliang Li wrote: Hi, Debian 6.0.x(x=1)? Are there any planned date for any Debian versions? Don't know about Debian 5, but Debian 6.0.1 was already announced: expect it in ca. 1 month. greetings Adrian -- what is the process? Do we vote, do we pray

Re:

2011-01-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
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Re: Squirrelmail package availability question

2011-01-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 20 January 2011 22.50:03 Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: In this specific case, there has been a concern in the past that making a package for really small things, like a plugin that's just one short file, would be overkill. But if you ask me, there's always some way to deal with such

Re: Google AdSense for Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho! On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13.00:55 Kartik Mistry wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:39:28AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I've been sent a voucher for 125.-- worth of Google Ads. How should I use it? I

Re: Google AdSense for Debian

2010-02-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 04 February 2010 01.43:23 Paul Wise wrote: [...] I'd like to suggest this thread be moved to debian-project to get some input from a larger part of Debian. Ok. Here's what this is about: +++ I've been sent a voucher for 125.-- worth of Google Ads. How should I use it? I'll need

Re: Google AdSense for Debian

2010-02-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 04 February 2010 11.29:47 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:39:28AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010 01.43:23 Paul Wise wrote: [...] I'd like to suggest this thread be moved to debian-project to get some input from a larger

Re: Info needed for online research project

2007-07-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 15 July 2007 18.08:01 Balu V wrote: But its not a problem though! I would still like to know more about Debian, because after graduation, I want to work mainly in the open source industry. Reading your questions below, it seems to me that you do not yet know what Free Software /

Re: looking to buy an ad on packages.debian.org

2007-05-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi Megan, On Tuesday 24 April 2007 16.17:52 Megan Farnum wrote: id like to buy an ad for a company that sells barcode scanners. i was thinking about placing the ad on your barcode package page: As David already said: the debian.org web pages are not for sale. But here's a deal for you: You

Re: Graphic Design Work

2007-04-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 15.34:55 James Herrington wrote: I'm new to this list so i apologise if i am asking this in the wrong place. I am a young graphic/web designer looking to gain some high profile experience for my portfolio. As Lars said, the web site is really in need of a thorough

Re: Debian 4.0 finally arrives... does anyone care?

2007-04-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:54, Philippe Cloutier wrote: [paraphrasing the article I linked to] It's stupid that Debian renames Mozilla applications. Yes, it is. Sure, let's drop the DFSG for lenny. Seriously: it is very stupid that the licensing/trademark situation lead Debian to

Debian 4.0 finally arrives... does anyone care?

2007-04-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5673962628.html Merely somebody who likes Fedora and (Open)SuSE better than Debian, or somebody who has a realistic view of the world? While I'm personally happy to use etch, I might be a bit biased... (There are many news items more or less just quoting

Re: ideas....

2007-04-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 06 April 2007 21.43:09 John Watson wrote: I would suggest having two releases of Debian, one really stable which could be released every 2 years, another one stable released every 6 months by taking a freeze of the current testing distro and spending a month (no more) fixing any

Re: SGI Altix 350/3700 - 450/4700

2007-03-12 Thread Adrian von Bidder
developers do. Please contact one of them directly, there is a list at http://www.debian.org/consultants/. Greetings Adrian von Bidder -- Computers follow your orders, not your intentions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 30 December 2006 14:34, Ryan Murray wrote: The LDAP schema has been updated to include several new fields: * Mail disable message * Mail greylisting * Mail sender verification callouts * Mail whitelist * Mail RBL list * Mail RHSBL

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2006-12-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo again! Web frontend is not, contrary to the announcement, updated yet for whitelist, rbl, rhbl :-( And the mail frontend doesn't like my emails (probably either it doesn't like subkey signatures or it doesn't like PGP/MIME). I could add the fields with ldapmodify though, so I assume they

Re: debian logo on commercial of the big mobilephones shops network

2006-12-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 26 November 2006 12:30, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote: [quote] I don't see how some russian company using some swirl for advertising endangers the freedom of Debian. [/quote] They are big and has enough money to create new logo, but not to use Debian logo for their needs. This time they

Re: Hardwareunterstützung

2006-12-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi Dirk, Most Debian mailing lists are english-oriented, please respect this. There are some german lists, such as debian-user-de. Please note, too, that the -project list is not really the correct list to talk about such issues. debian-user would probabyl be better. On Tuesday 28

Re: Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists and wannabes

2006-11-18 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 17 November 2006 06:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in creating a Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists I think Agnula/DeMuDi might be a starting point for you - have you looked at their project? http://www.agnula.org/ The project seems to be a bit dormant

Re: uses for efficient computation in various corners of debian?

2006-11-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 30 October 2006 14:31, sean finney wrote: - anything remotely resembling a graph theory problem (pkg deps? bts?) I guess conflict resolution in the pkg deps graph, respecting /etc/apt/preferences *and* the user's wishes would be worth a try. aptitude's algorithm is good, but has

Re: Fw: Kurdish Linux debian

2006-09-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 02:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ich schreibe im Namen einer Gruppe kurdischer sprechender Computerbenutzer, um Sie zu bitten, uns zu ermöglichen, Ihre Software-Produkte auf unserer eigenen Sprache zu benutzen. Tries to demand that we translate our Software to

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

2006-09-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:11, Anthony Towns wrote:    2) Debian rolls out the red carpet for Foo Linux          2.a) http://henning.makholm.net/debian/debianbased.png I like the carpet metaphor. (... and I never liked the bottle) Less whitespace in the logo:

Re: New website layout / design contest?

2006-09-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Paul Belanger wrote: [ Debian web site is not really good ] On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:23, George Danchev wrote: Seems like this website issue has already been addressed: (note: url is intentionally wrapped) http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/

Re: dialectic

2006-08-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 27 August 2006 00:06, catharsis wrote: W a t c h   o u t! (same spam on 20 Deian lists) Isn't crossassassin supposed to catch these? cheers -- vbi -- Weiber behalten eigne Geheimnisse, Männer fremde. -- Jean Paul pgpRlVvMcJ4mx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-08-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
2nd'd, also with Don's amendments. Note that the 'in consultation' bit is still in - it could be still clearer that the DPL may on his own take the decisions. But it's improved over the prev. version. cheers -- vbi On Tuesday 22 August 2006 18:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-08-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 11 August 2006 05:43, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:00:23PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: [...] I'd interpret the section to allow the DPL to include this publication as a 'btw, we bought some disks for ...' sidenote in his monthly/bits/for those who care

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 21 July 2006 17:54, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:18:44 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't think it makes sense that the Debian constitution determines who can become a member of SPI. That is something that should be (and probably is) described

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 22 July 2006 01:05, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Here is the latest draft of the proposal. [...] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seconded. Nitpicking: move this space character +6. Together with the Project Leader make decisions about

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 21 July 2006 03:12, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election 4.1. Powers Together, the Developers may: -6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make

Re: Hello

2006-07-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 23:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have released the first macedonian CERT team who can help Macedonia reduce the cyber crime. Good to hear! So, I'm e-mailing you for the reason that we are looking for your permission to add the debian.org link on our website No

Re: On-going anthropologic research about Debian

2006-05-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 18 May 2006 21:47, Ralph Katz wrote: For instance, the #1 language for google searches of debian is Hungarian! Hmmm. I seriously have a problem with this - not because I don't like the hungarians, but because english isn't even on the top ten languages list, and the US isn't

Re: Setting up i18n.debian.org?

2006-04-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 03 April 2006 01:25, Christian Surchi wrote: Il giorno dom, 02/04/2006 alle 18.39 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas ha scritto: Well, personally I had debian-specific projects like d-i and debconf translations in mind. And how could be that idea connected to upstream translation work? That

Re: uol.com.br and petsupermarket

2006-03-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 13 March 2006 04:20, Anand Kumria wrote: That means that as of now, uol.com.br are now considered spam addresses and anyone with that address (uol.com.br) has now been unceremoniously unsubscribed[1]. Just curious: how many accounts where these? I have blocked quite a bit of

Re: uol.com.br and petsupermarket

2006-03-13 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:08, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 3/13/06, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 04:20, Anand Kumria wrote: That means that as of now, uol.com.br are now considered spam addresses and anyone with that address (uol.com.br) has now been

Re: mirror size

2006-02-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[debian-www: lower part of this message. Topic came up on -project] [Michael: cc:d, I don't know if you read the debian-project mailing list] On Monday 27 February 2006 16:16, you wrote: I tried already to mirror the ftp.debian.at mirror ... but after ca 170G my harddisk was full ... :-(

Re: mailbox clogging, need daily digests of the list

2006-01-29 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:33, Madana Prathap wrote: Hi, I've been subscribed to 12 debian mailing-lists. As you could imagine, my mailbox is simply over-flowing now, with the number of mails the frequency. To avoid the struggle, I would like to subscribe to a daily digest of mails on the

Re: mailbox clogging, need daily digests of the list

2006-01-29 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 16:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: | :0 | | * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-\/[-a-zA-Z0-9]+ | .ML_debian.$MATCH/ Cool, now we all know how to create new folders in your mailbox :-) -- vbi (who admits to have the same vulnerability in his .procmailrc) --

Re: Entry

2006-01-29 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:37, IMD wrote: please delete my Entry from your server http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2001/10/msg00074.html Hi Torsten, This probably won't happen - Debian does not usually delete emails from the public list archive (except for obvious spam, which your

Re: DVD image version (r0a/r1)?

2006-01-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 07 January 2006 01.25, Peter Samuelson wrote: debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso debian-31r1-i386-binary-2.iso Right, r1 is just r0a plus some accumulated updates (mostly security updates). And: please note that you don't have to download the r1 images if you already have the r0

Re: New Linux- Usergroup at school

2005-12-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 23 December 2005 20.58, norman wrote: Have anybody expieriences in such projects? You probably should ask the debian-edu/skolelinux people - they specialise in using Debian in schools. Debian edu: see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu Skolelinux: see http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 09.59, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:54:36AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Problem with a GR: it doesn't get any work done. Right; that's not the intention of the GR though -- the intention is to authorise people to do the work. I've done all

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 22 December 2005 12.08, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:23:32AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Ah. To me, that is quite a bit of the missing piece of information on why you feel this GR is needed. To me the GR sounds very much wishy-washy, kind of 'let's

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19.33, Anthony Towns wrote: ... it's worth considering a GR ... I really liked your analysis up to that point. I can't see any reason why we would need a GR here. -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies. This week * Patent Law, and how it is currently

Re: Your posting: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 23.12, Daniel Tasch wrote: I would love to be able to use Debian, [...] packaging system [...] extreem network-centerednes Huh? You certainly can get hold of DVD images for Debian sarge - for instance: at cheapbytes, $12.99. Especially right now, with the stable

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12.28, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:08 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 19.33, Anthony Towns wrote: ... it's worth considering a GR ... I really liked your analysis up to that point. I can't see any reason

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 17.55, Florian Weimer wrote: [...] your efforts to decouple them are appreciated. AJ - since I'm bashing this GR idea quite a bit, please don't misunderstand me. I appreciate the work you've done and think the direction is absolutely correct. I'm just opposed

Re: Self Destructing Computers...

2005-12-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 08 December 2005 11.20, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:57 pm, Nick D'Annunzio wrote: Hi, my name is Nick. I went to start my computer last night after work and an awful blue smoke blew out the back. I ripped the cord out from the wall and opened the

Re: Is volatile dead?

2005-11-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13.15, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: [long delays in volatile] How about joining the team? debian-volatile would surely do better, if more persons would be involved in the team process. Why does it allways need Andi or me to answer a mail on the mailing lists? As

Re: Is volatile dead?

2005-11-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 21 November 2005 10.15, Andreas Barth wrote: * Adrian von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051121 08:32]: * I've not received an answer to my announcement on the d-v mailing list in a week, and investigation of the last three messages in the list archive (re: spamassassin and f-prot

Is volatile dead?

2005-11-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, I was asked (309511) to upload postgrey to volatile, as it contains a whitelist of some IP addresses that can't deal with greylisting. I'm not particularly interested in volatile myself, so I come to this from the outside. I would like to make two observations: * the procedure for

Woody release notes: is obsoleted by sarge now.

2005-10-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 20 October 2005 04.36, Horms wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:34:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the 2.2 is written here http://www.us.debian.org/releases/potato/ the following : Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has been obsoleted by Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). Security

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 17 October 2005 04.20, stephen horvath wrote: I do have a question that I have not received an answer. What is the real difference in what is referred to as Red Hat based or Debian based? As you've certainly noticed by now, the actual application programs (KDE, Gnome, The Gimp,

Re: Software Packages in stable - [security]

2005-09-24 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 23 September 2005 20.13, Sven Luther wrote: A default install should have both normal stable and stable/security in your apt sources so it should be transparent for you. And, since you're new to Debian: The term 'apt sources' refers to the file /etc/apt/sources.list on your system.

Re: announcing a discussion list about academic aspects of Debian

2005-09-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14.02, martin f krafft wrote: Debian-Edu is a project about improving Debian to make it the best distribution for educational purposes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for people who are involved (or interested in) academic research about Debian. ... and the recently created

The 'Alioth upgrade' upgrade

2005-07-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo all! Whoever caused this (below): please respect a few simple rules regarding email in general and email in the Debian project: - write in the From: header, or at least in some signature, who the originator of the mail was. Espeically when some 'I' writes that he did something. -

Re: [Fwd: Problems contacting the debian people .... (was: new configuration to avoid spam at the lists)]

2005-06-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 02 June 2005 11.33, Pascal Hakim wrote: [mail to Debian role accounts being ignored sometimes] Would a Debian Enquiry Response Team help? Yes, imho it could help - I could imagine offering myself to sort out sort out simple inquiries (point people to mailing lists or point out

snapshot.debian.net - .org

2005-05-31 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi, As many here (d-project) probably remember, I discussed promoting snapshot.debian.net to an official debian.org service recently. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/04/msg00327.html There was more or less general agreement about snapshot being a useful service, and most

Re: Fehlende ISO?

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 13.38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, ich lade mir seit kurzem das Debian Sarge für die Alphaplattform herunter. (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/alpha/) Allerdings kommt nach CD 9 schon CD 11. Wurde die CD 10 vergessen oder gibt es sie einfach nicht? Please

Re: Way you not support DLink 650+

2005-05-21 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hello Martin, I'm glad you like Debian. On Wednesday 18 May 2005 10.48, M.Schweizer wrote: Debian its a good Product , about wats Missing its Real or Helix Player and Skipe or a nother IP Free Client (XTEN) I think you should read a bit more about Debian's background - especially: All

Re: snapshot.debian.net

2005-04-25 Thread Adrian von Bidder
I wonder if snapshot shouldn't be promoted to an official debian.*org* service in recognition of its value to the project. Summarizing the discussion so far: (1) drain of funds / should Debian really purchase disk space of that size? (1.4TB, growing and growing...) (2) there is also

Re: New Maintainers

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 04 April 2005 01.28, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Adrian von Bidder cmot In the near future, Linux in the enterprise (server and desktop) will be an important part of my $DAYJOB, and I hope that I can do at least part of my work as a DD there. Well, it didn't work out that way

Re: Debian is inside OpenPuppets' world

2005-03-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 21 March 2005 18.29, OrganicaDTM wrote: [openpuppet] Hi, I would ask you not to make further announcements to the debian-project list (or, at least, explain how these announcements are on-topic on the debian-project mailing list.) thank you -- vbi pgpJQUWvTmB9e.pgp Description:

Re: french site submission

2005-03-20 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Saturday 19 March 2005 21.04, Aurélien wrote: hello, i create the first site in Corsica for delivering the Debian cd. can you put my adress in you site for cd or pré-installation http://www.sipion.com Hi, Please read the instructions on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding for how

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Helen, Martin - thanks for your effort. I found the first hour basically wasted time - the strength of IRC is that it's real-time, while the form of the first hour of debate did not really use that, instead showing the weaknesses of IRC when text needs to be copied pasted around :-) The

Re: How to be debian developer

2005-03-15 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10.35, Rapid Sun wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, Last month, i have attended Debian Mini Conference in Beijing. The project manager, Mr. Martin, mentioned about helping Debian. Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be

VA Linux / Sun Wah Linux to push Debian in China/Japan

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! I'm surprised that I haven't seen anything about this on the mailing lists (but OTOH I was probably just asleep - or is it vapourware anyway and we'll never again hear anything about it?) http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2369631174.html (I saw this first)

Re: New policy for http://www.debian.org/consultants/

2005-02-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 10 February 2005 08.55, Stefan Schleifer wrote: Tobias Toedter wrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2005 23:30, MJ Ray wrote: Has the debian-consultants list been told about this discussion? No, I didn't send my initial mail to that list. I've looked at the archives and it seemed to

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 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: Trusted Debian/Adamantix

2003-09-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 19:54, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:50:52AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: First, many people are not aware that Debian is a trademark. I have therefore asked the webmasters to add a trademark statement to the footer of