Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:23:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:34:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > 1) This situation does not stop a running machine from working, it will > > only > > stop it from booting. > > Oh, well, as long as THAT'S all it is... Heh, it

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread Mark Mealman
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:52:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > >... > > 5) A Debian Developer will never knowingly run a production server on > > "unstable" and will never encourage a non-developer to run "unstable". > >... > > Tou want to forbid tha

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Mark Mealman
> Yes, I am sure most people would. However, I have noticed that normal posts > on topics of this nature are handily dispatched with singular consistancy, > usually with reference to historical discussion buried somewhere deep in the > list archives. Or just ignored. Been lurking here for 2 years

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread Mark Mealman
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > After reading this nice diskussion with all it's aspects, I want to > > complete the mess and suggest a "distribution" called > > e.g. "progressive" beetween stable(frozen) and unstable. > > I gather you haven't read the discussion of package p

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Mark Mealman
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > > I really don't like unstable either, but I've pretty much abandoned the > > stable tree as too behind the times back when slink was nearing freeze. > > Here's a serious question for you: w

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Mark Mealman
> On 12-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree! (surprise ;) I personally know of about ~4 people who were > > turned away from slink because GNOME and KDE were so OLD. I personally > > got around this by running potato (unstable then), but most people don't > >

apt-get install wordperfect?

1999-05-27 Thread Mark Mealman
Is it possible for commercial software to make it into the Debian archives(presumably in non-free)? A lot of commercial software uses license keys to control otherwise freely downloadable software. And being able to upgrade wordperfect, blender and vmware via "apt-get upgrade" would be this lazy

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-19 Thread Mark Mealman
-Original Message- From: Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Phillip R. Jaenke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 7:35 PM Subject: Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests >On Tue, May 18, 1999

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > and commercial fields." Well damn, I work for one of the US's largest insurance brokera