Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: that's the great thing about linux -- just when we finally develop a standard way of doing things, someone steps in and says, no, that was wrong, let's do it this way instead, and stops supporting or improving the old way.

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: that's the great thing about linux -- just when we finally develop a standard way of doing things, someone steps in and says, no, that was wrong, let's do it this way instead, and stops supporting

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: It's nice to say they should see the light, but in my experience talking to many such companies, the fact of the matter is that it is a hard nut for them to swallow. I am under the impression that the relation between the OS

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: It's nice to say they should see the light, but in my experience talking to many such companies, the fact of the matter is that it is a hard nut for them to swallow. I am under the

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 02 Apr 2009 8:21:27 pm Mitch Bradley wrote: I guess the main disconnect is that, for the FOSS community, the point of view is more important than the product.  The commercial world is just the opposite. This is too broad a statement and rather unfair to those who have worked hard

XS Restore UI and account aliasing are ready for testing...

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Over the last few days^Wweeks I have been trying to finish off the 'restore' side of our backup infrastructure, as well as the account aliasing needed to handle the replaced laptop scenario. I've just pushed the last patch, everything works well and tests well for me. More eyes are welcome. What

OLPC Project

2009-04-02 Thread Angule Gabriel
Hello iEARN Kenya has interest in this project and would do with as many laptops as you would practically be able to provide in its endeavour to initiate the ICT integration in education programme within Kenyan schools. We would like to start with some schools in Western Kenya then move on

Re: [Grassroots-l] OLPC Project

2009-04-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Angule Gabriel angule2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello iEARN Kenya has interest in this project and would do with as many laptops as you would practically be able to provide in its endeavour to initiate the ICT integration in education programme within Kenyan

[Server-devel] Upgrade to 5.2

2009-04-02 Thread david
Hi Sorry I have not been able to keep up with things for a few weeks. My questions: 1. Can we upgrade to 5.2 using apt-get or such like, instead of having to do a clean install? If so what is the download size upgrading from 5.1? 2. When can we expect 6.0? best wishes to Martin, the team and

Re: [Server-devel] Upgrade to 5.2

2009-04-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:13 +1100, david wrote: Hi Sorry I have not been able to keep up with things for a few weeks. My questions: Yea, me too.. 1. Can we upgrade to 5.2 using apt-get or such like, instead of having to do a clean install? If so what is the download size upgrading from