Re: acheter debian
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Gaston wrote: > bonjour je suis interesse pour acheter debian/linux sur cdrom > a qui dois je commander ? aussi avec livre en anglais ou francais > meilleures salutations GP Regardez la liste des vendeurs sur debian.org. En France, il y a Ikarios (http://www.ikarios.fr) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: odered
Hi Robert, we're aware of the problems with Best Linux CDs. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do apart from removing them from our list of CD vendors - this already happened quite a while ago after a number of complaints very similar to yours. I suggest you stop waiting for your CDs and try to get your money back. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-US CD sales
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:01:53PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > 2) The other potential reason is patent violation (Unisys LZW patent, > primarily). AIUI, this is the cause why non-US continues to exist; the crypto code is no longer a problem these days. > In fact, I know of at least one US supplier which *does* sell Debian > Non-US, so I'm just wondering whether they are doing so legally, or > just bucking an admittedly very stupid law. We are thinking of also > carrying the CDs, and I'm trying to decide how to handle these. I'm afraid the ultimate decision will have to be yours alone. ;) IMHO, shipping the non-US CDs is pretty low-risk because even non-US doesn't contain really controversial software (like, say, libdvdcss). With the ridiculous patent system in the US, I'd even go as far as saying that a lot of programs in the main distribution are affected by US patents. OTOH, *if* someone thinks that a non-US program uses their patent, I think it'll be much more likely they'll sue you as the commercial vendor rather than Debian... BTW, AFAIK the NONUS CDs may stop being generated starting with 3.0r1 for purely practical reasons - the machine used for the CD generation happens to be in the US. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 question.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:51:40AM -0500, Peter Andrew Hanson wrote: > I have a copy of 3.0 (woody for pcs) on cds. I will be installing it (for > the first time) on a computer without internet access, in a seperate > partition. Will I be able to simply download the updates (changes in the > form on replacement modules ...?), burn them on a cd, then use the cd for > updating the computer, or am I looking at a more complex process. It *is* possible to generate "update" CDs, and some people (e.g. some CD vendors) regularly do so. However, Debian does not provide official update CDs. You could try asking here again after the 3.0r1 release to find out whether someone has made an update CD. BTW, also have a look at the apt-zip package, it might be what you want. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
