On Mon, Sep 29 2008, Venkatraman S wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not
>> passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in
>> Greg's talk. Ubuntu efforts
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>
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> LOL. Am sure you haven't done enough homework to know about the one you're
> throwing that question at. To let you know of the fact, Manoj contributes to
> Ubuntu's upstream named Debian and hence not only Ubuntu but a
Venkatraman S wrote:
Now am sure a lightning is gonna strike you and you gonna become green as a
toad!!
Have you contributed to Ubuntu? or aware of the development/bug-reporting
process in Ubuntu?
LOL. Am sure you haven't done enough homework to know about the one
you're throwing that questio
Hello,
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Venkatraman S wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Ubuntu efforts benefit Ubuntu. They are not close source,
> > but unlike the rest of the free software world, they make no effort to
> > feed any changes back upstr
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:39:59AM +0530, Venkatraman S wrote:
> Have you contributed to Ubuntu? or aware of the development/bug-reporting
> process in Ubuntu?
> If not, then let me summarize for you : It clearly says that a bug found in
> upstream can either be fixed by the developer or be passed
2008/9/29 Sri Ramadoss M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It gave the chance of Live CD for
> some one who is scared that trying GNU/ Linux distros will crash
> their Hard disks
This is one of the examples of not giving credit to others for their
contributions and think Ubuntu did everything in one day. Li
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>What is the point of having testers when the benefit is not
> passed on upstream to benefit everyone? That is the critical point in
> Greg's talk. Ubuntu efforts benefit Ubuntu. They are not close source,
> but
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, Satish Chandra wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Even though Ubuntu doesn't contribute development wise, they have an
> important contribution - a large user base who can serve as testers. I
> myself am not much knowle
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (obviously) in the restricted section. I do not have too much gyan on this,
> but happen to read this in the response mdz made for Greg's presentation.
For people who are wondering what or who this mdz is. Here goes the link.
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
the question is this:
1. Ubuntu has patched the kernel, the patch is available in their repositories
under GPL and there is nothing to prevent the maintainers of the kernel from
pulling in the patches
[From Ubuntu Forums, on a similar question about finding Ubuntu sp
Ubuntu install is six easy steps. It gave the chance of Live CD for
some one who is scared that trying GNU/ Linux distros will crash
their Hard disks
Ubuntu comes with one GUI and doesn't confuse a new bie with all that
is available.
It is a success from a user's perspective and that is all it i
On Monday 29 Sep 2008 9:53:45 am p.sriram wrote:
> Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a confession to make: I have shamelessly used linux since 1995 and
> > have never contributed a patch to the kernel. Even worse, I dont know C.
> > So, boycott me. Hate me. Kick me. Ban me.
>
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> P. S. Even Newton, Faraday and Einstein were wrong at times!
for an example google for einstein's airfoil design, which he worked on around
the time of world war 1. decades later, einstein wrote about how embarassed he
was about this work.
srir
Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just learnt from a friend of mine that I should stop using Ubuntu as
> Canonical is not contributing to the
> development of GNU/Linux systems as compared to other players.
by this logic, what happens to distributions like centos?
sriram
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Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a confession to make: I have shamelessly used linux since 1995 and
> have never contributed a patch to the kernel. Even worse, I dont know C. So,
> boycott me. Hate me. Kick me. Ban me.
your offer is acceptable. but, wait. we can do all that
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