Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:10:30PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I'm still looking for a single message (or other verifiably-dated document) that marks the let's start Debian from Ian Murdock. See here: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=CBusDD.MIK%40unix.portal.comoe=UTF-8output=gplain

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:15:10PM -0500, Cesar Mendoza wrote: It is funny to see that the first message about Debian contains the word flamewar on it. That means we were cursed from the beginning? If you look at the message without the gplain output setting, you'll notice that there were no

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
On 14-Aug-2003, Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:10:30PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I think this kind of historical document deserves noting in the Debian history pages; should I submit a bug report about that? No, because I already committed it in the project-history document

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Finney wrote: On 13-Aug-2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Ben Finney wrote: I'm still looking for a single message (or other verifiably-dated document) that marks the let's start Debian from Ian Murdock. See here:

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:47:23PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I think this kind of historical document deserves noting in the Debian history pages; should I submit a bug report about that? No, because I already committed it in the project-history document CVS :) Excellent. So, just

Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, With the upcoming Debian 10th Birthday event, I'm wondering if there is an inaugural email or some other document that marks the start of the Debian project, the way a certain email message from Linus Torvalds is frequently cited as the public beginning for the Linux kernel. Searching

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Finney wrote: Howdy all, With the upcoming Debian 10th Birthday event, I'm wondering if there is an inaugural email or some other document that marks the start of the Debian project, the way a certain email message from Linus Torvalds is frequently cited as the public beginning for the

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.comoe=UTF-8output=gplain Regards, Joey Joey, Thanks for this :) It's inspiring to see that Debian started out as it goes on. It is worrying

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:16:42AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Thanks for this :) It's inspiring to see that Debian started out as it goes on. It is worrying ,however, that it was intended to ease the burden for those without 'Net access. (As someone downloading nearly 3MB of package

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Cesar Mendoza
Hi, It is funny to see that the first message about Debian contains the word flamewar on it. That means we where cursed from the beginning? Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org -- Mi estrategia es / en cambio / más profunda y más / simple / mi estrategia es / que un día cualquiera / no sé

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Peter Makholm
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The installation procedure that doesn't need to be babysat and system setup procedure that will attempt to setup and configure everything from fstab to Xconfig, on the other hand... At least we got Be warned that it will be rather large :) right. --

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Michael Furr
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:00, Peter Makholm wrote: At least we got Be warned that it will be rather large :) right. And the other foreshadowing comment: Please note that this release is not yet completed and may not be for several more weeks er, maybe s/weeks/months/ now-a-days :) -mike

Re: Founding moment for Debian

2003-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
On 13-Aug-2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Ben Finney wrote: I'm still looking for a single message (or other verifiably-dated document) that marks the let's start Debian from Ian Murdock. See here: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=CBusDD.MIK%40unix.portal.comoe=UTF-8output=gplain Thanks!