Could you guys wash your laundry more privy? :P Lower your blood pressure, raise glucose level. You all have been doing a terrific job.
Cheers, Luke 2010/10/5 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>: > jaromil said : >> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:25:22PM +0100, Dan S wrote: >> > 2010/10/5 jaromil <[email protected]>: >> > > >> > >> > I guess that was the factors that pushed p:d devs to use XFCE as a >> > >> > default environment in the not-so-distant past, and some of those >> > >> > are still vital nowadays. >> > >> >> > >> Yup :) >> > > >> > > don't you guys remember we had XFCE on dyne:bolic already? >> > >> > But Lukasz said dyne:bolic used fluxbox by default, I'm guessing he is >> > correct? The issue is defaultness, not availability. >> >> yes. XFCE hass been default in dyne:bolic since version 2.4.2 - before >> pure:dyne ever existed. just a detail, among some others that were >> neglected, you can see it in the News section on http://dynebolic.org >> dated march 2007. > > Talking about sharing research, we switched desktops based on a poll > back in 2006 > http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2006-September/000721.html > > At some point Alejo mentioned XFCE and the existence of a dyne module, > although dyne:bolic was still using Wmaker if I recall correctly. > > Still in 2006, I made a newer XFCE module, based on the 4.4RC1 so that > everyone using the beta pure:dyne could test it. We got enough feedback > to see it as a serious candidate: > http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2006-September/000747.html > > The point is that these discussions helped everyone to evaluate this > desktop and see it as a good candidate for the default desktop on both > our systems. Looking back I think it was a good decision, even though > XFCE got a bit heavier with the years. > > >> > Would be interested to know, btw, what you think of LXDE, since it's >> > so fecking fashionable these days. Everyone who uses XFCE gets the >> > question "why aren't you using LXDE" which is a bit frustrating... >> >> premise about working together: last time we were open to share our >> research with Bel Ami was about migration of dyne:III to Debian and a >> few months after we've seen public announcements as "pure:dyne >> abandons dyne:bolic for debian"... > > This is correct I met you in Amsterdam to talk about pure:dyne, debian > and Ubuntu. The agreement was that the puredyne dev would start a debian > repository and new iso on their own and that you will keep in touch with > us. At the time you were very busy and could not invest much energy on > dyne:III anyway. You were also considering stopping maintaining the > project and focus on other things, which is of course fine but was a > problem for us who wanted to update pure:dyne and were stuck for almost > a year with the same issues. > http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2007-February/001075.html > > Which is why Heather, Marloes, Rob, Karsten, Claude, Chun, Anton and > myself had met in London a few months *before* this meeting with you, to > talk about the fact that pure:dyne had diverged a lot from dyne:II and > to decide if we wanted to keep on waiting for dyne:III or fork as we > were already only working in our own branch of dyne:II, on a different > code repos and stopped syncing with your core and SDK. This was a scary > decision of course as making a distro from scratch VS hacking an > existing core was a big jump. Scary but exciting too :) > > The discussion started by looking at making our own core based on > LFS/BLFS live scripts but we also did a distro tour to check what was > available, and this is how we discovered Debian's live helper project, > fell in love with it and unanimously decided to use it for what we > called at the time pure:dyne-ng. The motivation was also to see that our > packages could be used by people outside of Puredyne itself. > > Since then, it is sad to see that you keep a bitter memory of it and > keep pointing finger at me. In the past two years, I offered you to meet > or call several times, without response from you. The invitation is > still up. > > >> however, as mentioned in this >> thread, i'm still very much in favour to share research with >> pure:dyne. > > It's free software, patches are welcome Jaromil, lots to do as you can > see here https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne > > > a. > -- > http://su.kuri.mu > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
