A little Debian love

2007-11-02 Thread AJ Milne
... Dunno if this is entirely appropriate for this list or not. Thing is, I'm one of those users who's never really into the mailing lists, as I've never really needed them... Which, would, actually, be the subject of this message... This is just to say to the Debian developers and package mai

Re: Debian Love

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-09-22, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: >> Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and >> they don't "just work". > > Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here > which never got addressed, and had another user cont

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:29 +0200, Frank Hart wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I Well, I would like to add a huge thankyou. I just got a recon box for £99 (an old compaq with a 1.7 Inte

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff Zhang
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > I surely don't and advise anybody against doing that. I was referring > to some who are both Ubuntu and Debian developers, who start eith the > former and then send massive disruptive patches to Unstable. > > Ottavio > I'm agree with your points! I very dislike those g

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-29 Thread Ottavio Caruso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > > > > How *do* you do that? > > > > What do you mean? > > cross-compile for another distribution, with presumably > an entirely different list of package-dependencies. I surely don't and advise anybody against doing that. I was referrin

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-28 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:04:38AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0700, Ottavio > Caruso wrote: > > > > > > Jason Martens wrote: > > > > > > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the > > > >developers right now > > > > > > E

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Hart
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the qu

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-28 Thread Ottavio Caruso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > > Jason Martens wrote: > > > > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the > > >developers right now > > > > Especially those who have to cross-compile for Debian > > and Ubuntu... > > How *do* y

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-27 Thread celejar
Debian rules! Many thanks to everyone behind Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
I feel so grateful to debian that I can't think a way to express all the quality, support, reliability that it has bring to my professional life. I have installed a dozen servers with debian. I have updated all of them with a single line command. I have left RH6.2, RH7.3, RH8, RH9, gentoo, freeb

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Jason Martens wrote: > > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the > >developers right now > > Especially those who have to cross-compile for Debian > and Ubuntu... How *do* you do that? I have an AMD64 whose Debian crashe

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: It was strange if it had been someone else but you to find the first hair in the soup. And equally strange if you weren't the first to point that out! :-) Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycl

Re: MemoryStick (was Re: usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love))

2006-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Pollywog wrote: It was not a USB stick, it was a memory stick from a digital camera. She had a USB dock for the memory stick. Windows recognizes and mounts it fine. Debian won't recognize it. I had to edit /etc/fstab in order to get Debian to recognize mine. Is this one that has the USB plug b

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread sciencisto-debian
> Debian rocks! Thanks to all who contribute to this great > distribution! > > I'm glad that someone posted this here! > > No-one claimed that Debian is perfect, it's just so much less > imperfect > than anything else! > > Just my opinion. > Johannes And mine, too. Debian rules! = El ES

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 9/22/06, Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the work you do. Keep it up! * I am an enthusiast and just can't wait for Etch's release... Just hope the developers resolve those complex issues with licencing and whatever in

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-22 11:10:05, schrieb Travis Crook: > Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and > they don't "just work". This is why I use it since Version 2.1 codename Slink. Debian is a realy great work. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemad

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: Travis Crook wrote: Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and they don't "just work". Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here which never got addressed, and had another user contact me months later with the same problem, w

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-25 Thread s. keeling
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Add me to the list of devoted Debian users. I mailed a donation of $50 > this morning. I hope it helps. Bravo! The donation suggestion is the best suggestion in this thread. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-25 Thread Thomas H. George
Add me to the list of devoted Debian users. I mailed a donation of $50 this morning. I hope it helps. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-25 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the >developers right now Especially those who have to cross-compile for Debian and Ubuntu... > I love Debian. I love it too and it hurts me when some Debian developers smear it. >I love how the system works. Regardless of what

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-25 Thread George Borisov
Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. To all DDs, A big thank you for making my life so much easier. Debian makes Linux rock even more th

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-24 Thread Jay Zach
Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality of the packages. I love that it let

Re: debian love

2006-09-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:02, lots of people were heard to say things like: > > Thank you, Debian developers! > > Same here, Thank you very much! Donations can be made through http://www.spi-inc.org/donations Make sure to specify that the mon

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060923 19:15]: > Since user-lists deal mostly with problems, one might get the feel that > problems are all that there is, here. This thread - which I endorse - is > one good idea. Someone considered posting it to debian-devel? It was mentioned twice on plan

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread Martin Richardson
Yes, I will agree, WELL DONE, and keep up the good work DD's. I have used a few distro's and what has made me come back to Debian is it's stability, and ease of updateing etc. One thing that makes it stand out over most other distro's is its maturity. Love it. Cheers, Martin. On 11:08 Fri 22

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread T
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I Really? This is the fist time that I hear about it. Any more reading? I really hope not, because I love Debian so much. > thought it might be nice for all of us users

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread rick . thomas
-- Original message -- From: Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread Bruno Buys
Scott Lair wrote: >Jason Martens wrote: > > >>It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I >>thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian >>is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. >>I love the quality of the pac

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread Gerard Robin
Even Debian unstable (sid) is more stable than other the stable dists. Thanks to the developers and to those who manage this mailing list. -- Gérard

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Lair
Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality of the packages. I love that it let

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jason Martens wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me d

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:10:05PM EDT, Travis Crook wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 > Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so > > I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why > > Debian is s

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread M-L
On Saturday 23 September 2006 02:08, Jason Martens shared this with us all: >--> It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I >--> thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian >--> is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system

Re: MemoryStick (was Re: usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love))

2006-09-22 Thread Pollywog
> > It was not a USB stick, it was a memory stick from a digital camera. > > She had a USB dock for the memory stick. Windows recognizes and > > mounts it fine. Debian won't recognize it. I had to edit /etc/fstab in order to get Debian to recognize mine. Is this one that has the USB plug built-in

Re: usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love)

2006-09-22 Thread H.S.
Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory cards. The card reader is a Dazzle USB card reader. It mounts just fine with Windows XP, but does not mount with Debian. The type is SanDisk 128 mg SDMS 0343SD7 hmm .. so, she is trying to read the memory stic

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system > works.

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the > work you do. Keep it up! > > Jason Martens > Debian Lover Damn, we have become AOL'ers ;-) I made the switch 2 (or so) years ago from RH. Guys/gal

MemoryStick (was Re: usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love))

2006-09-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/22/06 15:44, Mike McCarty wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > >>> inability to read her camera memory stick. She finally went and >>> got an HP printer which can read it directly without going >>> through the computer. >> >

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the > work you do. Keep it up! Yes, hear hear! Big thanks to all developers, great job! Your work IS appreciated more then you know it :) . -- "Infin

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the qu

Re: usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love)

2006-09-22 Thread Mike McCarty
H.S. wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] inability to read her camera memory stick. She finally went and got an HP printer which can read it directly without going through the computer. I don't recall seeing this message in the mailing list so I don't know the facts. Do you mean that her l

usb stuff now working in Debain (Re: Debian Love)

2006-09-22 Thread H.S.
Mike McCarty wrote: Travis Crook wrote: Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and they don't "just work". Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here which never got addressed, and had another user contact me months later with the same problem,

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread H.S.
Jason Martens wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me d

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Hemlock
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500, Jason Martens wrote > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so > I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 22 2006 11:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: > > Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and > > they don't "just work". > > Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here > which never got addressed, and had another user contact

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Mike McCarty
Travis Crook wrote: Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and they don't "just work". Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here which never got addressed, and had another user contact me months later with the same problem, wondering whether I ev

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality of the packages

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Dominok
Yes, I agree! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the qu

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/22/06, Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the pac

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/22/2006 11:25 AM, José Alburquerque wrote: Raquel wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Don Hayward
It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I want to do, a

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/09/06 09:12), Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 > Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, > > so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them > > why Debian is such an awesome project.

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:08, Jason Martens wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. > I love the quality o

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I > thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian > is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system > works.

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hear! Hear! Jason Martens wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread debian
Me too lads. More power to yer elbows :-) Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Gary Catalano
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:08 AM To: debian-user Subject: Debian Love It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread jacek
I love debian for its simplicity in installing / upgrading / configuring and fantastic package management tool "apt". It really makes sys admin life easier .Thanks for that , guysOn 9/22/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Raquel wrote:> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500> Jason Marten

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Raquel wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the s

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, > so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them > why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how > the system works.

Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Jason Martens
It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I want to do, an