On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:49:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:00:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > They do (IRC, anyway), but it's just not as effective. Face-to-face > > communication and the ability to look over at somebody's screen in real > > time and say "oh, *that's* what's wrong" are underrated sometimes. > > Well, doesn't KDE automate the process of dealing with VNC for desktop > sharing?
Trust me, still sucks compared to sitting next to co-developers. (What's so difficult about this concept?) Also, not all the d-i developers use VMware or whatever, it being non-free and all, and the free alternatives being too slow for some people. > > If you're suggesting that this release might have boot-floppies still, > > no, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen. > > I wish I could share your optimism. This ain't optimism. It's a statement that continuing to maintain boot-floppies is impractical from a release perspective, so we *have* to have debian-installer. > I can't even get far enough to file a decent bug report using VMWare. Can't you file a bug report about where you got stuck? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]