Re: "Proper" english [off topic - move to debian-project]

2000-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Jan-00, 01:52 (CST), Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, anyone who uses a certain three-letter plural for "sock" > should be killed on sight. ;-) Huh? "soxen" has five letters :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this lis

Re: Testing Distribution

2000-01-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:04:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goswin Brederlow) wrote ... > > Could you interact with the popularity-contest package to consider the > Where _is_ the info this package gathers? http://www.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ A search for `debian pop

Re: Testing Distribution

2000-01-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goswin Brederlow) wrote on 19.12.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Could you interact with the popularity-contest package to consider the Where _is_ the info this package gathers? MfG Kai

Re: "Proper" english [off topic - move to debian-project]

2000-01-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jan 02, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Wrong. Much of English comes from French, German and Latin. Metre is > correct (ask any Englishman). *Americans* are the only ones who spell > things "the other way". Metre is correct, but not for the reason that it's "the way everyone else does it".

Re: New Architecture

2000-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > To get to the point as quickly as possible > > What process(es) must be followed to start a Debian dist for a new > architecture?? You'll need to be able to create native packages. This means that you'll need a kernel, a compiler (and tools), a gli