Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Markus Gamenius
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ 09 Ï 2005 00:54, Halvor Dahl wrote: Ubuntu may sound like the right answer, but what is the question? In my opinion, it is "How do we get control over our release process?" and not "What distro should we chose?". Fwiw, I strongly oppose jumping overbo

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Markus Gamenius
Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 8 May 2005, Arnt Ove Gregersen wrote: The unpredictable and not-so-frequent releases of Debian worries me. Is it worriing *you* or your *users*. Wanting the latest and greatest software is a very developer centric point of view. Keeping your users busy by providing f

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Knut Yrvin
søndag 8. mai 2005, 23:33, skrev Andreas Tille: > Give me back my good old version i know and i was able to work with > instead of keeping me busy with learning this new version! We have some examples in Norway where sys.admins have got a lot of explaining to do when upgradring from KDE 2.2.2 to

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ 09 Ï 2005 00:54, Halvor Dahl wrote: > Ubuntu may sound like the right answer, but what is the question? > In my opinion, it is "How do we get control over our release > process?" and not "What distro should we chose?". Fwiw, I strongly oppose jumping overboard to Ubuntu. However lit

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Halvor Dahl
Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 8 May 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: Then we will be less vulnerable in the future, and we will give our users more freedom. You might think about whether your users want freedom of choice of a distribution or just a relieable system. Freedom is a very great word but us

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Arnt Ove Gregersen wrote: The unpredictable and not-so-frequent releases of Debian worries me. Is it worriing *you* or your *users*. Wanting the latest and greatest software is a very developer centric point of view. Keeping your users busy by providing frequently changing app

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Markus Gamenius wrote: Then we will be less vulnerable in the future, and we will give our users more freedom. You might think about whether your users want freedom of choice of a distribution or just a relieable system. Freedom is a very great word but using freedom sanely r

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Arnt Ove Gregersen
On Sunday 08 May 2005 21:09, Markus Gamenius wrote: > I think the safest aproach for our project is to stay within the > "Debian-sphere", without beeing to close conected to Debian, Ubuntu, > Xandros +++. Beeing totaly distro-independent is not the best idea, > because we have made so much work on

Re: laptop task / xdebconfigurator

2005-05-08 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
C. Gatzemeier wrote: On my laptop I found I had to install and configure xfree86-driver-synaptics before the touchpad would work as expected. Where would be the right place to handle this automaticly, i.e. the right place to file a wish? xdebconfigurator? Hmm, I don't think everyone with a lapto

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Markus Gamenius
Andreas Schuldei wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:54:49PM +0200, Markus Gamenius wrote: The two projects have fairly aligned goals, trying to provide the best possible software package for schools. We do have different time schedules, and this will lead to friction when upcoming deadlines make i

laptop task / xdebconfigurator

2005-05-08 Thread C. Gatzemeier
On my laptop I found I had to install and configure xfree86-driver-synaptics before the touchpad would work as expected. Where would be the right place to handle this automaticly, i.e. the right place to file a wish? xdebconfigurator? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Schuldei
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:54:49PM +0200, Markus Gamenius wrote: > >The two projects have fairly aligned goals, trying to provide the best > >possible software package for schools. We do have different time > >schedules, and this will lead to friction when upcoming deadlines make > >it hard to spe

Re: The next level of Custom Debian Distributions

2005-05-08 Thread C. Gatzemeier
On April 30th Knut Yrvin wrote about config file updates etc.: > 2. Config-files in Debian packages is not ready for enterprise > 2.1 To get enterprise selection of config-files into the package > 2.2 config-file with changed format and the old name > 2.3 put new config-files on the new installat

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Kurt
* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050508 14:45]: > > So, during my stay at the conference in Valencia, I was able to talk > to Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, and discuss the possibility of > cooperation between the Edubuntu and the Debian-edu/Skolelinux > projects. We were able to cl

Re: Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Markus Gamenius
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: So, during my stay at the conference in Valencia, I was able to talk to Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, and discuss the possibility of cooperation between the Edubuntu and the Debian-edu/Skolelinux projects. We were able to clear away a few misunderstandings away (sko

Debian-edu/Skolelinux and Edubuntu cooperation

2005-05-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
So, during my stay at the conference in Valencia, I was able to talk to Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, and discuss the possibility of cooperation between the Edubuntu and the Debian-edu/Skolelinux projects. We were able to clear away a few misunderstandings away (skolelinux do not want to coop