On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:51:41AM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> >On Thursday 04 December 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> >>I have noticed that Ubuntu only advertises CD1 on their download page.
> >>I think it is really sensible: The CD-1 contains Xwindow,
On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD,
doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather
than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient for the
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>
>I think we have the following options here:
>1) keep the m-a DVD as it is: GNOME only and i386/amd64/ppc/source
> (3rd column in 1st table, or 1st column in 2nd table)
>2) drop ppc from existing m-a DVD, GNOME only, but with hugely inc
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD,
> doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather
> than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient for the
> user. IMHO, doing it at boot time violates
On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop.
The only thing missing is offering boot options to select different
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop.
> > The only thing missing is offering boot options to select different
> > desktop environments as we'll now do
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop. The
> only thing missing is offering boot options to select different desktop
> environments as we'll now do for x86, but that could possibly be
> implemented by some
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Andrew Lee wrote:
> So the question would be source vs ppc arch support, which is more
> useful for our users on the multi-arch DVD for the purpose?
>
> I think only people who don't have good internet connection would need
> source packages. And I guess rare of these p
On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I'm only a user and a tester, so I don't get to vote, but I'd go for
Of course you get to vote (and "vote" here is more just an expression of
preference than an official count anyway).
> the increased utility of dropping ppc from the multi-arch/m
Hello folks,
Frans Pop wrote:
> I think we have the following options here:
> 3) change m-a DVD to support all desktop environments; drop powerpc
>(3rd column in 2nd table)
> 4) something I have not investigated: drop source...
>
> My personal vote goes to option 3.
For my personal opinion,
On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
Powerpc is very definitely losing its user base (just compare the
number
of macbooks (ppc based!) you see now at conferences with what you
saw 3
or 4 years ago.
Actually, "MacBook" is the name for the Intel-based Apple laptops.
The PowerPC bas
On Thursday 04 December 2008, peter green wrote:
> > The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops
> > will completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with
> > a high popcon score.
> > Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With
> > only
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> multi-arch images
> -
> The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops
> will completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a
> high popcon score.
> Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc suppo
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I have noticed that Ubuntu only advertises CD1 on their download page.
I think it is really sensible: The CD-1 contains Xwindow, so a [new]
user gets a usable desktop... even if he/she face network connect
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
> In short: installs from CD will offer all desktops but only GNOME is
> installable without the network or other CDs. Do I understand
> correctly?
Not quite.
Installs from CD will _offer_ only the default GNOME: there will be no
option to s
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> I have noticed that Ubuntu only advertises CD1 on their download page.
> I think it is really sensible: The CD-1 contains Xwindow, so a [new]
> user gets a usable desktop... even if he/she face network connectivity
> problem.
Actually I think U
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try
> out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options
Ahem, as you say...:-)
I was planning to do such testing next week-end as I had no
opportunity to do it
The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops will
completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a high
popcon score.
Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With only
i386 and amd64 there is still room for the top ~2600 packages o
Hi,
[My two cents tips below]
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try
> out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options
> and what it will mean for the images we make available for
Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try
out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options
and what it will mean for the images we make available for Lenny.
Everything in this mail is a proposal (i.e. open for discussion), loosely
based o
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