Hi

We are not giving away USB sticks this time


On 12Jan, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:

> I think it's quite important to have a more recent, less dull and some new 
> stuff in a distro release if we're gonna give away usb sticks this year.
> 
> I have two things of work on technical stuff in preparation of FOSDEM, the 
> first being finalizing the image creating process etc. for the Moondrake 
> (yes, not OMV) Wandboard media center, and also isos using the classical 
> installer, incorporating all of bug updates, additonal fixes, while all work 
> I've done on drakx* tools, urpmi/perl-URPM over the last year, and this will 
> be released as Moondrake GNU/Linux also rather than OMV. Considering Raphaël 
> has offered for the association to officially support the project/distro, I 
> antiicipate that people won't be too upset about what I'll prepare in time 
> for FOSDEM, for which thanks to Raphaël's personally sposoring my trip out of 
> his own pocket (if anyone else would feel as generous and find my attendane 
> valuable enough, both myself and Raphaël would appreciate this btw., but i 
> won't go on begging much more beyond that, beyond expressing my gratitude and 
> greatfulness towards Raphaël and his will to aid me9 I seem to be attending 
> this year after all, and as i expect that we'll have some usb sticks this 
> year as well to hand out, i would think if would be good to have both omv & 
> mdk usb sticks to distribute, especially since the latter is more updated and 
> with new functionality, features and far more recent versions of our own 
> in-house developed tools, for which i'll be more than willing to tell and 
> answer questions about.
> 
> For this release, i would as i said above, merge all the stuff (all my work 
> done privately since may 2013, so it'll be quite an update and more recent to 
> what's been in the omv releases which has been shipping neglibly 
> improved/developed over that period) that i'm in the process of merging back 
> to cooker.
> i will also try find the time to finish integrate some of the features I've 
> discussed here, that's yet only resides in my source repos, while awaiting 
> final preparations for being included.
> 
> Blackcrack, would this satisfy what you'd like to see in this release?
> For the background you mentioned by Arvi, I'm not sure which you refer to, 
> Arvi was very fond of the existing one in Moondrake, and didn't think of 
> there being a need for changing it at all, so I'm not sure if you refer to 
> some other background or not.
> But I will most certainly still continue to include his tuxlets theme 
> avatars, which I think of as a nice way to honour him, but including names of 
> deceased in the release code name, is something i'm principally is against of 
> and something that can easily be found in more or less poor taste by some, 
> I'd rather place some dedication somewhere else...
> 
> If these plans for preparing a release in time for FOSDEM sounds satisfactory 
> to people, and noone will object to distributing it together with OMV usb 
> keys at the stand, I will start work on preparing this.
> 
> Any comments? Suggestions? :)
> 
> 2015-01-10 8:11 GMT+01:00 Blackcrack <[email protected]>:
> Hi Raphaël,
> 
> well, if you whant have an CD/DVD who works really well for us,
> look that the ISO 2014.2 is ready before the start FOSDEM,
> because an really well working System it's better as an ALFA who be only 
> say..: 
> "whoo the 2015 becomes good, really good ! here it is the ALFA"
> *dump looking*
> 
> humm, hole words can i make also, but.. so but if you have an ISO /DVD 
> with us Distro in the hand from last year, where works really, can you say, 
> this is from last Year vinified (like a good wine), but this, this year 
> becomes better !
> This is a statement that is almost impossible to beat, because the finsh iso 
> it's 
> an reality and the Community grown up it is also an reality..
> and this statement is much better, than to say.. 
> "this crappy alpha thing is well, but it's comes more better/ (crappy??)" you 
> see.. so,
> it's much better to have an really well stone in the hand as an Bird on the 
> roof ;)
> because, with the stone can you hunting .. with the Bird on the roof not .. ;)
> 
> best regards
> Blacky
> 
> 
> Am 09.01.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Raphaël Jadot:
>> I think it's a good idea also, but it would certainly be best if the 
>> optimisations are pushed at the same time on 2015 so that there is no a 
>> bigger gap between the two major versions, no?
>> 
>> 2015-01-09 11:59 GMT+01:00 Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]>:
>> 2015-01-08 8:48 GMT+01:00 Blackcrack <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Peoples,
>> 
>> the 2014 it is now inclusive the i586 an well running system 
>> in this point .
>> It's not an well idea/suggestion if we now make with 2014.2
>> as an System who it is running well so far and bug fixed so far.
>> Urpmi it is on both systems well running now, and the pictures 
>> want be well working via libpng16 like i has view ..
>> Maybe updating the the rest of the library what's not up to date 
>> and should work really well so far ..
>> 
>> So, why not then creating an2014.2  iso as as finalization 
>> before we create an 2015 . For have something who can we tell, 
>> "take this CD/DVD/ISO and be happy, because he can be really 
>> happy because it works easy well so far" .. and.. 
>> the Surface it is up to date so far .. so what whant we more..
>> if we now creating an finalization ISO for have an clean install
>> and an Clean configuring do we hve an ISO where can say, yes, 
>> it's the best of 2014 .. the 2014.2 iso .
>> It's not a bad idea, I would've generated some (compatible) moondrake isos 
>> satisfying this request, but unfortunately I doubt that I'll have the time..
>> 
>> But then again, since your desired requirements for such a release is rather 
>> modest, there's a fair chance that I might just push a Moondrake GNU/Linux 
>> 2014 1/2 based on top of OMV 2014.1...
>> 
>> No promises, but considering that what you ask for in such a release 
>> wouldn't require much work (if I understood it right), I *might* satisfy 
>> your request. :)
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Per Øyvind
>> 
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