Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:44:08AM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Tyger Sunshine-Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we don't, what is the point of pouring so much work into making such a useful and _flexible_ distribution? Well, everyone has their own answer to that, but I'm satisfied that

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Stephen Zander
John == John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full John time PR staff, ... Now *that* is something I could see value in. -- Stephen --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Market share and World domination are not goals I strive to achieve. Market share, no. But world domination? C'mon, admit it would be fun to have the downtrodden of the world grovelling at your feet. Dogbert has the

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: we're not here to get 100% market share, or 50% or even 20%. we're here to make the best system we can and share it amongst ourselves and with others, and also to encourage others to join in the effort. IMO the property relations that exist

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Ron
First question: If some major cash was donated to Debian, what would we do with it? Seriously, do we have a purpose for it, or would we just re-donate it to other projects? Sure that might look good for a story on Slashdot, but I'm more interested in making headlines for Debian because

VA and debian boxes (was Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests)

1999-05-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:35:30PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: As for preinstallation, let me make two points: a) Debian really has a long way to go for someone to do mass installs of it, unattended. it certainly could be easier, but it's not that hard. i build many debian boxes...it just

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:10:14PM -0500, David Welton wrote: Personally, I'm happy to know that I'm involved in making a kick ass OS, and as long as no one messes with my ability to do that, I'm fine. hear! hear! couldn't agree more. RH isn't competition to debian except in the most

Re: VA and debian boxes (was Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests)

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 20 May 1999 10:11:42 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: selection of two or three standard configurations - web server, file and print server, and internet gateway) and use 'dd' or 'tar' to duplicate the drive. finally, follow that up with a perl or

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Tyger Sunshine-Hill
RH isn't competition to debian except in the most positive sense of friendly rivalry. We have different aims, different goals. Their goal is to produce and market a linux distribution which keeps their company financially viable. Our goal is to produce a distribution which does what we want

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Tyger Sunshine-Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, maybe, but the fact is that Debian could use some sponsorships or major donations, and as long as RH keeps the spotlight, guess who they go to? Eventually, we have to get Debian out of its shell and get the average linux user (If there is

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Tyger == Tyger Sunshine-Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tyger Well, maybe, but the fact is that Debian could use some Tyger sponsorships or major donations, We could? What shall we use them for? (Not that we shall turn away any donations, mind you, but we may *need* less than one

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:09:28AM -0700, Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: RH isn't competition to debian except in the most positive sense of friendly rivalry. We have different aims, different goals. Their goal is to produce and market a linux distribution which keeps their company financially

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread Chris Waters
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't speak for others, but *I* do it cause it pleases my muse. Getting Debian out to the great unwashed masses rouses little but mild curiosity in me, and certainly not eough to warrant the amount of effort I put into my packages.

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread David Bristel
wrote: Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 13:04:44 -0700 From: Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyger Sunshine-Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests Resent-Date: 20 May 1999 20:04:57 - Resent-From: debian-devel

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread David Bristel
. Dave Bristel On 20 May 1999, Chris Waters wrote: Date: 20 May 1999 13:32:06 -0700 From: Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests Resent-Date: 20 May 1999 20:34:49 - Resent-From

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
*Manoj Srivastava wrote: I can't speak for others, but *I* do it cause it pleases my muse. Getting Debian out to the great unwashed masses rouses little but mild curiosity in me, and certainly not eough to warrant the amount of effort I put into my packages. In general, it

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
*Joseph Carter wrote: First question: If some major cash was donated to Debian, what would we do with it? Seriously, do we have a purpose for it, or would we just re-donate it to other projects? Sure that might look good for a story on Slashdot, but I'm more interested in making headlines

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread David Welton
RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research. So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what Redhat is -

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, David Welton wrote: So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what Redhat is - marketing. That's not a bad thing, necessarily - marketing is what it takes to get your name out in the

RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Brent Fulgham
Title: RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research. I find it offensive that you attack VA research, who provides many of the resources

RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research. I find it offensive that you attack VA research, who provides many of the resources we enjoy as Debian

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: That's MY opinion. Not necessarily yours. I can't get a system without RedHat preinstalled from VA Research last I checked, they never returned my calls, so as far as I'm concerned, they're about as good a company as Compaq or

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Phillip R. Jaenke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what about their 'partners'? I have yet to see one of their contracts. And I'm just getting this eerie feeling that, well, it's an exclusive contract. If you offer RedHat, you only offer RedHat as far as Linux go, at least on preinstalled

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: I find it offensive that you attack VA research, who provides many of the resources we enjoy as Debian developers. That's MY opinion. Not necessarily yours. I can't get a system without RedHat preinstalled from VA

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: That's MY opinion. Not necessarily yours. I can't get a system without RedHat preinstalled from VA Research last I checked, they never returned my calls, so as far as I'm concerned, they're about as good a company as Compaq or

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

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: On Tue, 18 May 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research. I find it offensive that you

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Erik
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:24:40PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Ever tried mass-installing Debian? It's simply impossible -- complete, new debian installations take at least two hours of babysitting. This makes debian a product VA is incapable of marketing. Of course, there are

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:35:50PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: a) Debian really has a long way to go for someone to do mass installs of it, unattended. True. Do you think any systems vendor uses the normal installation procedure to install the system software on machines during production? I

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:10:34PM -0500, David Welton wrote: RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA Research. As far as Big Companies go, redhat isn't so bad. Be very thankful they didn't go the

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:17:11PM -0700, Erik wrote: Well, actualy i have semi-mass installed machines...I did 30 or so machines, all i really had to do was put all the packages i wanted to install into a single dir that i nfs mounted(from the base system). i dpkg -i'd those with a program i

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread John van V.
Hi, Yeah, you can say I told you so even though... I thought my email got censured... I guess it just got lost, this deb-devel list is busy !! I'm shooting for trinux... it has all the things I like about corporate teamwork like security type integrity and qa controls. And none of the other

evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Craig Brozefsky
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/opinion/0,5954,2260109,00.html On the other hand, those in our world who believe in manipulating language for political means insist on the term GNU/Linux in order to pay forced homage to the FSF and GNU. Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of The

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to better educate him on why Debian has made various decisions, and why Debian is not anti-commercial by

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Might I suggest that someone involved with Debian PR contact Mr. Leibovitch and attempt to open a dialog with him in order to better educate him on why Debian has made various

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:43:36PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: snip I hereby officially propose that the education of Mister Leibovitch begins with a sound *THWAPPING* upside the head using a hard-copy of both the GNU Manifesto and the GNU GPL, and done in tandem by two very large and well

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread John van V.
Hello, I am with the LXNY and other free software clubs in NY and we are 100% against certification, the sheer stupidity of evan's statement is all you really need to know. I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing to become a channel partner. Below is a

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
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. Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says about Linux in

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

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread tony mancill
sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but... rant On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote: 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

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Steve Shorter
On 18 May 1999, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of The Linux Professional Institute, which is non-profit corporation attempting to provide standardized certification across all Linux platforms. Normally, such rhetoric as he spouts in this article (and a

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:44:53AM -0700, John van V. wrote: I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing to become a channel partner. [.. bad experience snipped ..] What do you expect from a company that was kind enough to release a binary only linux with a

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:22:27PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann 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. Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says about

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, tony mancill wrote: sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but... I gotta do it. If anyone's a geek in suit's clothing, I garauntee you it's me. And I find this funny, in a sick and twisted way. rant On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote: Well damn, I work

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: I think prj has one such cd from Caldera and I can confirm that I've seen one too. The person who had it wouldn't give it up unfortunately. They're saving it for the same reasons I want it--to show people just what kind of company Caldera really is.