Debian Linux for smartphones [WAS Re: (No Subject)]

2024-07-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 04:17:21PM +, Mike wrote: > Hi. > > Is there any debian linux for smartphones? > If yes, how to install it? Hi Mike, The list you've posted to is the main list for the whole of the Debian project. I suggest follow up to the Debian-user mailing list. Mobian is one Deb

Swap partition default size [WAS Re: Problem With Hard Disk Partitioning In Debian Linux 12.x]

2024-07-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 07:14:28AM +, Saurav Sarkar wrote: > Hi, Hi Suarav, Unfortunately, this is the wrong list: debian-project reaches the whole of Debian. Follow up set to the debian-user mailing list. > The SWAP Partition is too low in Debian 12.x that is just 1 GB. This was a consider

Re: Debian [source code]

2024-04-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 03:00:04PM +, Gauthier Kidjat Kwatatshey wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm contacting you because we need your help or recommendations on how to > download the full source code for Debian > > Good evening, If you need all the sou

Re: Cosmic DE

2024-02-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Hugo Fortin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm looking foward to the new Cosmic Desktop Environement from Pop_OS. > > Because it's 100% written in Rust and designed from to start to be Wayland > Only, this DE is extremely important for the Linux Desktop. > This wi

Re: Question regarding to the status of Debian 11 (bullseye) AMIs

2024-02-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:41:57PM +, yu, bing wrote: > Hi Debian Team, > > This is Bing Yu, a software engineer from NetApp. I am working on a project > using Debian 11 and I realised our official Debian 11 (bullseye) AMIs for > Amazon EC2 hasn’t been updated since Oct 2023 > https://wiki.

Re: Information

2023-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 07:24:06PM +0200, Giovanni Guarino wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > First of all thank you for your big work to continue to support debian. > I have installed version 12 and I want to inform you that the Shared > Clipboard and Drag & Drop doesn't work. > With lsmod i saw vboxguest p

Re: Problem With Debian Root Desktop

2023-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 08:47:12AM +, Saurav Sarkar wrote: > Hi, > I like to use Mate Desktop because it is almost different from other Desktop > views. Hi As previously suggested, this is more a question for debian-user mailing list than the whole Debian Project. > And not giving the perm

Re: Problem With Debian Root Desktopy

2023-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:47:20PM +, Saurav Sarkar wrote: > Hi, > I was using purchased Debian 8.1.0 and wanted to upgrade to some higher > versions after using it for few years. > So I downloaded Debian 10 and found that "root" account do not have full > rights that is "root" user cannot ri

Re: Problem boot DEBIAN 10.2

2023-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 04:16:04PM +0100, Tarik OULDKADI wrote: > Hello > Tarik from algeria > I m technical engineer with HP Large printer in algeria > This printers need to install a caldera rip > To install this caldera, it s necessery to install DEBIAN > The installation of debian 10.2 turne

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject: Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > [...] > > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > > within the project, so

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello. > > Debian Bug #1024501 [1]indicates that data files are present in the > fortune-mod package which are against Debian policy: > > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropri

Re: Debian fix sound

2023-06-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 10:58:16PM +0200, Remi wrote: > Hello can you make it compatible with debian 12 it is currently > incompatible with my computer here it is characteristic intel UHD 600 intel > Celeron J4125 the problem there is no HDMI sound please contact me for more > information Remi, D

Re: Debian 12 install

2023-06-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:31:41PM +0330, Danial Behzadi wrote: > If this is not a trolling, Please decalre what are you talking about > exactly. > > در سه‌شنبه, ژوئن 20 2023 at ۱۳:۱۲:۴۱ +00:00:00, eladZ1i8 > نوشته بود: > > Hi, Just installed Debian 12 - have been using Debian since version 4 - >

Re: archive

2023-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:45:51PM +0200, to...@ukr.net wrote: > Hi! I'm interested in a question about the archive/old versions. The site > https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive.en.html states that over time you stop > keeping binary packages for older versions. Please tell me, over time, you

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-12-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 12:34:02AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:18:48AM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > "Roberto A. Foglietta" wrote on 20/11/2022 at > > 22:14:35+0100: > > > > I think the bit of "rational approach" is to see *why* the package was > called "

Re: ITA: fortunes-mod (was: SUMMARY [Was Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?])

2022-11-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:05:29PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [I'm using the pseudonymous respondent's message to reply to Mr. Cater > as well. Mind the angle brackets for quotation context.] > > At 2022-11-23T14:14:38-0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 202

Re: SUMMARY [Was Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?]

2022-11-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 02:14:38PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-11-23 at 13:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > A serious suggestion: it is not necessary for Debian to package > > fortune files at all. > > I find this suggestion demotivating and discouraging. >

SUMMARY [Was Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?]

2022-11-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
All, Thank you for your considered opinions thus far. We have various developers who have written defending free speech: we've had others who have expressed various reservations with one aspect or other of the status quo. There's been a grudging consensus that this is *hard*. It's very hard indee

Re: Removing software because we disagree with its values

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hi Sam, I respect absolutely what you say. I'm not sure that fortunes-offensive has any particular literary merit, I'm not sure myself that, now that the separate binary for fortunes-off has been removed, that the dat file merits inclusion. It was a leaf package on a small games package that is

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 03:39:14PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 05:31:56PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > > > The question is not whether hosting is illegal (I don't think it is). > > > > The question is whether we promote Nazi ideology or not. And the > > answer i

Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
All, This is in the context of a mail to the Community Team raising a query about fortunes-off - the fortune cookie database that contains offensive fortunes. The specific query was about Nazi quotes from someone in Europe - I don't believe our database currently contains these, as they were purg

Re: Debian AWS AMI Images - Can't access 20+ servers...

2022-10-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 09:26:02AM -0700, Eric Stone wrote: > Hello Debian, > Hi Eric, > I have a problem on AWS, where I have about 20 servers that I cannot access > because I cannot re-subscribe to the AMI. > > The issue is the AMI - I can not re-subscribe to the marketplace image. > > AMI:

Re: Error on the website on support of version

2022-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:18:36PM +0200, Laetitia PASQUET wrote: > Hi, > > The page here : https://wiki.debian.org/fr/LTS on your website is not > uptodate with the version of support for exemple with debian 11 which is > mentioned with futur version. > > Could you update the page please ? > >

Re: Are users of Debian software members of the Debian community?

2022-09-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:47:19AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 9/16/22 12:12 AM, Nilesh Patra wrote: >> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 06:17:02PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > bugs are important. I am not a DD so my bugs are not as important to the > maintainers who have a greater responsib

Re: Are users of Debian software members of the Debian community?

2022-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Poster is cc'd by me because he is not subscribed to the debian-project list] On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 03:17:03PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 9/14/2022 12:22 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > People of debian-user :) > > > > This thread does seem to be

Re: several questions /Debian Source Code build 11.3/related to Unrestricted Encryption Source Code Notification Commodity

2022-04-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:27:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:14 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > I'm unaware of Russian law at the moment: it is possible that import and > > use in Russia would be legitimate under Russian law. > > The

Re: several questions /Debian Source Code build 11.3/related to Unrestricted Encryption Source Code Notification Commodity

2022-04-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 04:44:02PM +0300, Екатерина Лапшина wrote: > Good afternoon! > > Good afternoon, Ekaterina > > We are planning to use Debian Source Code build 11.3 (the “Software”) in > Russia and have several questions related to Unrestricted Encryption Source > Code Notification Commo

A quiet reminder: please be considerate.

2022-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Readers of Debian-project This is a quiet reminder that debian-project and all Debian mailing lists are governed by the mailing lists code of conduct and the main Debian code of conduct. * Please be considerate of each other: assume good faith and treat each other with the respect that each of

Re: Debian Update Cycle

2022-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:00:16PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Bad form to follow up to myself - but the second list was debian-kernel NOT debian-boot > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:27:42PM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Don't you think it would be

Re: Debian Update Cycle

2022-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:27:42PM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Hello, > > Don't you think it would be smart to integrate all the updates contained in > the Backports directory with each new minor update of our favorite OS ? For > example for the versions 11.3, 11.4, etc ? > In my (limited) view

Re: stable (11.3) Not yet planned (likely to be February 2022)

2022-03-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 01:06:13PM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Hello, > > The version 11.3 of Debian was expected for the month of February 2022. > > https://release.debian.org/ > > Unfortunately this date forecast was not respected. > > Can we expect an upcoming release of this version 11.3 i

Re: Emails are public on the website

2022-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:30:36PM +0530, Dipansh Parmar wrote: > Hello Debian team, > I'm not sure if it is the intended behavior or not but I just wanted to let > you guys know. The emails regarding Debian are public on the website and > can be found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/05

Re: Graphic equalizer in Rhyhmbox

2022-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:07:11PM +0100, Riccardo wrote: > Hello, on my notebook i use Linux Mint Debian Edition, since i would > like to install the equalizer in the excellent Rhythmbox player, can > you insert the rhythmbox-plugin-complete package in the Package > Manager? > So I could have the

Re: Concerns about how the Security information is presented on Debian.org

2021-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 05:37:40PM +0100, Max WillB wrote: > Davide Prina wrote: > > > you must understand that who report a security problem can be a > > different person > > The point is, to quote the paper: > > "a vast majority of vulnerabilities and their corresponding security > patches

Re: Will this run a mysql php

2021-12-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 03:49:00AM +1030, Zain Grant wrote: > Will this connect with mysql php in the banking cloud so it connects with > the banking world of transfer and deposit can u get back tome im deploying > a bank php mate needing this done asap with a server that connects in the > cloud of

Re: Debian logo

2021-11-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 11:03:08AM -0400, Joshua Allen wrote: > Dear debian, > I was wondering if the logo was inspired by bdale garbee's tie dye shirt? > > Thanks > Josh It was subject to a Debian vote in 1999 - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLogo "The chicken" was used for a period before that.

Re: Problems of migrating Debian8 "Jessie" to Debian 10 "Buster"

2021-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:28:39AM -0400, Henry Chang wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Because I could no longer install Debian 8 "Jessie" on new machine and > update the old machines, I migrate to Debian 10 "Buster" with KDE Plasma. > But I found lots of problems and would appreciate your help solve them:

Re: DEP-16 Confidential votes

2021-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:01:36PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: > * Stéphane Glondu [2021-04-16 17:12]: > > I would be glad to help :-) > Great! > > > > With all that being said and having made my case, I am open for any > > > reasonably secure solution (including Belenios) that we can agree on, >

Results of two votes are due shortly

2021-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Everyone : The project is expecting the results of two votes shortly. The results won't please everyone - they never do. Please continue to be polite and constructive and work positively with your Debian colleagues however the votes fall. With thanks for your consideration in this Andy Ca

Proposal to deprecate and remove mailing list specific code of conduct

2020-11-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Folks, We currently have a minimal Debian mailing list code of conduct at https://www.debian.org/MailingLists which is, essentially, primarily tips on how to format email. At the same time, we have the main Debian Code of Conduct at https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct} which is also referenced

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 01/07/2019 18:22, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > > >> and so forth, since they're the experts on what they would find > >> the most meaningful within the Debian context. > > Adrian> Debian having a position on general political issues can be > Adri

Re: Linux Mint Operating System V.S Other Operating Systems

2017-08-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:01:52PM -0500, Walsh, Ryan wrote: > My name is Ryan Walsh and I am a gifted student from Saint Charles MO. I am > researching why Linux Mint is more popular than other operating systems. I > am really enjoying researching this topic and I have some questions about > Debia

Re: GitHub Open Source Survey 2017

2017-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi -project, > > GitHub recently published the announcements of their 2017 Open Source > Survey: > > http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/ > > > I was wondering whether any fellow developers had read this and whether > they had evaulat

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

2017-04-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 01:53:49PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Hi all, > > On several occasions people have asked me about Debian t-shirts and the > polo shirts when I'm going to an event or after seeing a video where I > am wearing the polo shirt. > > At some events there are opportunities

debian-project@lists.debian.org

2017-03-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 07:43:18PM +0100, swjatoslaw gerus wrote: > To debian-project@lists.debian.org > > This is the general list for the whole of the Debian project. This would be better addressed to a debian-user list. > > Gentlemen And ladies / men / women

Re: Obtaining Debian Install PKG

2017-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 06:47:54AM -0500, John Klinvex wrote: > Dear Support, > > I apologize for bothering you with a simple question. > > I have several legacy systems (old) that I am installing Debian onto. I > also wish to install other packages (Kicad, Freecad, Mercurial, Gmsh, and > Qucs).

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash

2015-12-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > As reported here: > https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ > > Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only > organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects. They are > facing financial problems because one of t

Re: Future release roadmap

2015-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:51:46PM +, Vogel, Steve wrote: > Hello, > > We are planning resources to support our products running on Debian and would > like to know an approximate timeline (through Q1 of 2017) of releases. We > understand stable version 8.1 was released in June. What guidan

Re: Free Software

2015-06-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 04:42:02PM +0200, mrtx wrote: > > I really like Debian. I reckon it is the best distro I've ever used, for > several reasons. > I know Debian is by default 100% free software. The kernel is deblobbed > and its default main repository contains only free software. > Everyth

Re: Debian 7.8

2015-05-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:06:24PM +, Satya Prakash wrote: > Dear Debian Project Team, > > I need to download Debian 7.8 version, however I am finding it difficult to > locate it on the site. > > If possible, kindly provide direct URL for downloading this version. Looking > forward for your

Re: NCR unix system v/386 release 4 recover root password

2015-03-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:26:42PM +0300, Mohammed El-Saadani wrote: > Dear All > we have NCR 3455 system from long time as attached all information for > server (images) , > so we need your help to assist us to get root password which lost it , > really we appreciate your efforts if you can sen

Re: about version of Debian for USB flash drive.

2015-01-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 01:28:30AM +0300, Iskander wrote: > Good morning. > > I don't know why you can't put version of debian for usb flash drive. Is it > difficult for you? Why there are 3 dvd iso's on your site? Who the hell use > dvd or cd? > Dear sir This is becoming a frequently asked

Re: Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian GNU/Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:21:41AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Downloading and installation of 8 CDs and 3 DVDs for just one debian > GNU/Linux, its too heavy. Rewrite this Operating System in C language and > make it smaller than one GB. Thanks. > > > John Smith John, This is probably off topic

Re: open source or free software?

2014-08-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 09:42:00PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/31/14, Werner Baumann wrote: > > I don't feel the need to talk about "open soure" on depian-project at > > the moment. But if you do, don't forget the origins. A good summary is > > at http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/b

Re: Xfce by default

2013-11-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:50:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:42:13 +0100, Stefan Mauerberger wrote: > > > Hi There! > > > > Just wanted to let you know that from my point of view it is a very bad > > call changing Debian's default desktop once more. (... GNOME2 -> GNOME3 > >

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 08:44:56AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Dear Project, > > The System Administration Team (DSA) are considering moving some of the > static hosting that Debian currently provides from our infrastructure to > one or more CDNs. We have received feedback indicating that a br

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:49:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > gregor herrmann writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:38:39 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > > > > I can think of another thing that we care about, which I don't see > > > mentioned here: "We expect people to be constructive members of the

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:32:43AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >Hi, > > * Hyun-Gwan Seo [2012-02-05 09:10:53 CET]: > > How about using national flags? > > I think that national flags are much more helpful and eidetic than text. > > Flags represent nations and not language. Having the Germ

Re: FOSDEM videos released

2009-02-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:52:06PM +, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:09:11PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote [edited]: > > blogging (1-203) life; title=FOSDEM videos released > > [..] And second, I > > have no real clue how useful our streaming efforts are, I believe

Re: Debian and non-free

2008-09-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:24:18PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:48 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 06:12:08PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > No. I agree with you, and actually proposed a General Resolution 8 > > years ago to get rid of non-free

Re: How? Where? What?

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:36:49PM +, Toni Olsson wrote: > > Hello! > > I´m not the kind of person who reads alla your list about the contents in > your program, I just want to install it without any complications. Now I just > want from you one (1) link to download it from, not twenty. >

Re: Supported or Certified Hardware

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:04:34PM -0400, Mike Houle wrote: [Reformatted to remove HTML] > Hi, > I am a QA engineer at Sun Microsystems and have been tasked > with looking into supporting Debian on some of our > systems. Many other OS vendors have a certification program for > hardware and systems

Re: Help...information please

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:57:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >  I realize that I may have the wrong place, however I'm hoping that > I might also have the right people. The information I seek is this: Is > Libranet 2.8 or 3 still available? Unfortunately, Libranet was a father a

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian, ... was : [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: This is getting ridiculous ...]

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:20:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi, please read the following, and this may give you more of an insight about > the situation. > Sven, En franc,ais mauvais, afin que vous y comprenne: taisez en donc s'il vous plait si cela vous soit encore possible. On a deja trop

Re: Measuring Debian progress

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:04:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > * Total number of non-pseudo-packages that bugs.debian.org knows about. > > * Number of open bugs, in total, and for each severity, and a count of > > all n

Re: Upcoming relaeas

2007-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:10:46AM +0200, David Ramsay wrote: > Hey, I'm wondering if you have any more info on when Debian 4.0 will be > released? > > Kind Regards > > David Ramsay > Debian 4.0 - currently codenamed Etch - will be released when it's ready and will then become the Debian stabl

Re: questions

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:18:52PM -0700, Andrew Swerdlow wrote: > Hi I just have a few questions, which I could not quite find on the web > site. > > 1) how many active developer work on debian? > Round about 1000, spread worldwide. [A few are relatively inactive, there is always an amount of m

Re: non-free but distributable packages and kernel firmware

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:47:06AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:17:02AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Henning Makholm wrote: > > > There's probably also the "free-use" and "nonprofit-use" properties -- > > can I use this package without having to worry about the lic

Re: Debian's Future in the Coporate World

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:38AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Atwal, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.09.1847 +0100]: > > - I've been using versions of Debian (namely Libranet) on 5-6 Linux servers > > at > > work for years. I'm facing increasing opposition from senior managemen

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I object. Not by any price we have to pay (and turning www.debian.org > into a commercial page *is* a high price, which could also result in > losing some of our sponsors who provide a mirror of the pages) > Thanks Joey, couldn'

Re: About the broken jigdos and gluck's load

2004-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:02:45PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Note CC: and Reply-To: to d-project ] > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:25:03PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > >> > >Ok, so do we have a better idea of a good machine to use for CD buil

Re: Debian, lists and discrimination

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
> > Yep, I think it behoves us to consider that as well. As I said in a > previous message > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/08/msg00053.html), we should > examine what changes to the project's culture need to take place, and > whether those would be net-beneficial. It might turn ou

Re: Skolelinux and the "Debian Labs" idea

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:25:37AM -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I think great caution should be exercised here. One thing Debian > appears to take very seriously is it's social contract and the > evaluation of the licenses of the packages it

Re: question

2003-08-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:16:13PM -0400, Thompson-Laurin, Harriet wrote: > Hi, > > I am a systems analyst taking a course at the University of Phoenix on Unix. > My teacher has assigned a project in which I need to obtain specific > information about Debian. Although I searched your website,

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:15:42AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > See here: > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=CBusDD.MIK%40unix.portal.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain > > Regards, > > Joey > Joey, Thanks for this :) It's inspiring to see that Debian started out as it goes on. It is w

Removal of non-free etc.

2000-06-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hi all, I've just waded through 250+ posts. I'm a developer and also an active Debian user at work. I work with a bunch of programmers for Windows/Linux/Solaris - I'm their tech. supprort guy, so I get to do some sysadmin. work, building disks, fixing faulty hardware - the works. If I get the