Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-19 Thread (``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando
having ppl not reading might not be a problem for alpha/beta testers, since those are interessed ppl. also there could be an option for both CD-R and RW. On 4/18/07, t u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thilo Six wrote: > >> If you give blank CD RWs with Ubuntu branding away some bad guy(tm) > >> coul

Re: Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)

2007-04-18 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/18/07, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shirish agarwal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org > > is no longer being maintained. The whole > > place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerate

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Conrad Knauer
On 4/18/07, shirish agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a big supporter of testing the Herd CD's but its the cost of the > CD's which does turn me off. Hence my testing is only from the beta stage. > I've got 1 80 GB HDD which is exclusive for testing. Now it would be cool on > Canonical's pa

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Forest Bond
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: > RFC = ? Request For Comments, I presume. -Forest signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread t u
Thilo Six wrote: >> If you give blank CD RWs with Ubuntu branding away some bad guy(tm) >> could put bad stuff on it and spread that. (That way the gpg chain >> is broken that took soo long to put up on mirrors.) That would be >> bad publicity for Ubuntu/Canonical. > i remember McDonalds had given

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
Thilo Six wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:05: > John Richard Moser wrote the following on 18.04.2007 04:50: > >> snip> > >> o ShipIt can ship CD-RWs during the development cycle. These CD-RWs >> would use special ShipIt-RW art, indicating the disc utilizes CD-RW >> storage to hous

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
John Richard Moser wrote the following on 18.04.2007 04:50: >snip> > o ShipIt can ship CD-RWs during the development cycle. These CD-RWs > would use special ShipIt-RW art, indicating the disc utilizes CD-RW > storage to house the Ubuntu Operating System. > > o ShipIt-RW artwork woul

Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)

2007-04-18 Thread john levin
shirish agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org > is no longer being maintained. The whole > place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into > just spam. The last news is of 2k4 & nothing bey

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread shirish agarwal
Hi all, Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org is no longer being maintained. The whole place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into just spam. The last news is of 2k4 & nothing beyond that. Another thing that could be done, if Canonica

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread shirish agarwal
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:19:45 -0600 From: "Conrad Knauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW I can think of a few reasons why this is a bad idea, not the least of which is that the alpha/beta versions have big disclaimers to NOT install them on producti

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread john levin
Conrad Knauer wrote: > RFC = ? > Request For Comments HTH John > On 4/17/07, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been thinking on ShipIt CDs and the problems with getting them out >> taking so long. > [...] >> I propose we ship Ubuntu ShipIt CDs on CD-RWs. This would al

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-17 Thread Conrad Knauer
RFC = ? On 4/17/07, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking on ShipIt CDs and the problems with getting them out > taking so long. [...] > I propose we ship Ubuntu ShipIt CDs on CD-RWs. This would allow users > to order ShipIt CDs during the Alpha/Beta cycles and u