Re: Choice of Desktop environment at install time using netinst CD.

2013-02-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 27/02/13 06:04, Rick Thomas wrote: Is it as simple as appending something like desktop=xfce to the boot command line? Actually yes, that should work; the install media for GNU/Hurd and kFreeBSD are doing exactly this. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To

dropping the spu/cell cross compilers for jessie

2013-02-27 Thread Matthias Klose
For jessie, I'll stop building the spu/cell cross compilers out of the binutils and gcc-4.x source packages. Now that we can build cross toolchains using the binary {binutils,gcc-4-x}-source packages, people could build the spu toolchain like it's done for mingw or other targets. Matthias --

G5 towers

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hey debian powerpc folks-- I have the opportunity to get my hands on several Apple G5 towers. If they are not claimed shortly, they will be thrown away. I can probably only make use of one of them as spare parts for an existing G5 tower that i run debian on. I would like to give them away to a

Re: dropping the spu/cell cross compilers for jessie

2013-02-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
(Adding cbe-oss-dev) On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: For jessie, I'll stop building the spu/cell cross compilers out of the binutils and gcc-4.x source packages. Now that we can build cross toolchains using the binary {binutils,gcc-4-x}-source