Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread Gueven Bay
> > Your description roughly matches the way that Ubuntu is already structured. Yes, it matches the way Ubuntu is structured. But - as you know - Ubuntu is GNU/Linux today. The first new proposal of me was to get other free operating systems under Ubuntu's project. > That is, I don't see any

Re: texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Jordan Mantha
> > 3. Transitions. I think gutsy will mostly likely see a tetex -> texlive > > 2007 transition although I haven't seen any specs are talk about that. > > Maybe a good topic of discussion? > > Debian/sid has already transitioned, so won't gutsy automatically pick > this up unless otherwise preven

Re: texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Brent Stephens
On Friday April 20 2007 5:29:19 pm Jordan Mantha wrote: > > > tephens comcast.net> writes: > > Is anyone developing texlive? It seems that no one really works on it; > > occasionally one of the devs sticks the debian package in the ubuntu > > repos. > > I would really like to see it better maint

Re: texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Michael R. Head
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:29 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: > > tephens comcast.net> writes: > > > > Is anyone developing texlive? It seems that no one really works on it; > > occasionally one of the devs sticks the debian package in the ubuntu > > repos. > > I would really like to see it better

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:09:04AM +0800, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > No, I don't think that the ordering of devices is a bug - the bug is > > that we're assuming that the Linux device ordering bears some sort of > > relation to the Bios device ordering, which is simply not

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-20 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Matthew Garrett wrote: > No, I don't think that the ordering of devices is a bug - the bug is > that we're assuming that the Linux device ordering bears some sort of > relation to the Bios device ordering, which is simply not true. Further, Perhaps it is not a bug as far as the kernel is concer

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:20:01PM +0800, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > Thanks for your reply. However, I knew that hda becomes sda when using > the linux-ata drivers instead of the good old IDE drivers. My problem is > that the primary boot drive is recognized as sdb, and Grub gets installed > onto the

Re: texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Jordan Mantha
tephens comcast.net> writes: > > Is anyone developing texlive? It seems that no one really works on it; > occasionally one of the devs sticks the debian package in the ubuntu > repos. > I would really like to see it better maintained, and I am willing to work > on > it, but I don't really k

Re: support for .metalink

2007-04-20 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/19/07, shirish agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >I have made a launchpad entry > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+spec/segmented-downloading > with the wiki entry at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/metalink > giving the details. I'm no developer but all the links ha

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello dear Ubuntu community, > > Here I want to propose the development of > > > Ubuntu Metadistribution Your description roughly matches the way that Ubuntu is already structured. That is, I don't see any work to be done on

texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Brent Stephens
Is anyone developing texlive? It seems that no one really works on it; occasionally one of the devs sticks the debian package in the ubuntu repos. I would really like to see it better maintained, and I am willing to work on it, but I don't really know where/how to begin. If anyone has any use

Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread guevenbay
Hello dear Ubuntu community, Here I want to propose the development of Ubuntu Metadistribution Motivation There is not only Linux as a free operating system. There are other free operating systems which have their own strength and advantages. The Ubuntu Metadistribution would combine the ad