Re: repo for packages built with Intel, Portland, etc. compilers

2012-08-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
he nod from Intel that what was being attempted was within their legal and aup terms. Its a massive grey area, unless you have the license to distribute the builds ( which is what mysql had ) - and its not cheap. Months of chasing intel's legal team resulted in nothing. So I gave up. Let u

Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
eone out on FUD, you > really IMHO ought to give a lot more detail as to why, otherwise you are > merely perpetuating your own FUD. How about you just look through the last few posts from me on this list ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2

Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
is a truism. Workout the answer to the question above and look back at previous threads on this list about the same thing. The OP is nothing but FUD. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
t-hanging-around long enough so that someone else finds and fix's the bugs is a very shallow and false sense of stability, within the constraints of this ecosystem. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z0

Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/20/2012 04:59 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > b) delays in issuing bug fixes are good for you - no delay means they >did not test the stuff before pushing it out. FUD - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Ya

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
nd, testing is one of those things that one can never do enough of. And specially when our target is only made available once someone else has made up their mind as to what it needs to look like : things get trickier. fun, for sure. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
se Team now. As before, contributions and additions to the test harness, the test suites, the automation and even ideas for testing etc, are welcome. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
g process/code documented somewhere and what the implications are. So we might be able to better and improve the process in CentOS as well. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG K

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
d local repo, and dont deploy from upstream to production on the fly. Its what pretty much everyone does. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Re: SL support for the multi-core Cell Broadband Engine processor

2008-03-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
) are working on a PPC Distro that will work with the qs21 and the ps3, and it should be ready in a few weeks time. If you have some hardware and can do some testing for us, that would be great! Can I put you on a list of people to notify once we have a testing distro ready ? -- Karanbir

Re: XFCE on SL-5

2007-09-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
, its in a repo and works out of the box. all you would need to do is write the required .repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]