Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:23:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:34:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: 1) This situation does not stop a running machine from working, it will only stop it from booting. Oh, well, as long as THAT'S all it is... Heh, it's not

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Mark Mealman
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:52:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: ... 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on unstable and will never encourage a non-developer to run unstable. ... Tou want to forbid that: - I run

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Mark Mealman
Yes, I am sure most people would. However, I have noticed that normal posts on topics of this nature are handily dispatched with singular consistancy, usually with reference to historical discussion buried somewhere deep in the list archives. Or just ignored. Been lurking here for 2 years

Re: A progressive distribution

2000-03-15 Thread Mark Mealman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: After reading this nice diskussion with all it's aspects, I want to complete the mess and suggest a distribution called e.g. progressive beetween stable(frozen) and unstable. I gather you haven't read the discussion of package pools in the

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Mark Mealman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: I really don't like unstable either, but I've pretty much abandoned the stable tree as too behind the times back when slink was nearing freeze. Here's a serious question for you: which parts are too old on slink to perform

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Mark Mealman
On 12-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who were turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I personally got around this by running potato (unstable then), but most people don't WANT to

apt-get install wordperfect?

1999-05-27 Thread Mark Mealman
Is it possible for commercial software to make it into the Debian archives(presumably in non-free)? A lot of commercial software uses license keys to control otherwise freely downloadable software. And being able to upgrade wordperfect, blender and vmware via apt-get upgrade would be this lazy

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Mark Mealman
-Original Message- From: Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phillip R. Jaenke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-devel@lists.debian.org debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 7:35 PM Subject: Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail and commercial fields. Well damn, I work for one of the US's largest insurance brokerage