Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
in Debian today isn't made public. -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® products. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam

Re: FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-04 Thread Ottavio Caruso
: the event was a month ago and I only learned about it yesterday on linuxdevices.com: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9555158297.html -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufacturers that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® products. http

FSG Packaging Summit in Berlin

2007-01-03 Thread Ottavio Caruso
, etc.), and the needs of ISVs in packaging solutions. Has this ever been discussed on Debian ML's? Joey Hess was there. I can't recall any mention of it on the DWN. Why do we [users] have to learn of these things from external sources? Regards -- Ottavio Caruso I will not purchase any

Elive requires donation to download

2006-11-24 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Elive http://www.elivecd.org/gb/Download/Stable/, based on Debian, requires a donation, however small, to allow downloading. I wonder if this legally sound. Ottavio Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the

Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

2006-10-16 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Lech Karol Paw³aszek wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 00:07, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: [cut] The fact that GNU chose the name Iceweasel for their own fork of Firefox is extremely unfortunate :-( Why it is unfortunate? Because they'll want Debian to call it 'Gnu-Iceweasel' and they'll

Why does Ubuntu have all the wrong ideas (was: New desktop features provided by new version of update-notifier)

2006-08-15 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Wouter Verhelst wrote: That is a *very* bad idea. Even only on a small details, I am please to see a few people on a Debian mailing list not blindly accepting whatever comes from the Ubuntu world. Brand me a troll, but lately this looks like the trend (see debian-project). Ottavio Ottavio

Re: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-07-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Just checking: are you already aware of Debian From Scratch (DFS), which already does this? http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/ At nearly 1/2 gigabyte you can hardly call DFS a recovery cd... Ottavio Caruso -- No individual replies, please