Re: question on your architecture

2004-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:34:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * MSQL 4.0.2 or higher, because we need foreign keys with cascading >UPDATE and DELETE, and row-level locking. If you have a need of serious RDBMS features, I'd recommend you take some time to investigate whether Postg

Re: Logo Question

2004-07-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:20:01 -0700, Michael Valentine wrote: > I came up with this logo idea and want to make Linux shirts and want to > make sure it's OK to use your logo for this. You're using the Debian Open Use Logo (http://www.debian.org/logos/#open-use) so it's OK. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspa

Re: Pricing Quote Request

2004-04-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:34:02 -0700, EXT-Rossman, Anthony J wrote: > Can you either quote me a price on the following item No. Quoting http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/: "Debian creates and provides its entire distribution free of charge. Debian does not manufacture its own CDs, but relies on 3

Re: Broken links avoid any download of 1.44 image for potato distrib....

2004-02-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 15:19:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for the 1.44Mo binary images for the Potato distrib. http://archive.debian.org/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ HTH, Ray -- I love articles that remind you that one of the ingredients it recommends p

Re: intention to use logo...

2004-02-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Hi Derek, On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 21:22:34 -0500, Derek McWilliams wrote: > My question for you- are there restrictions in place (Trademarks or > otherwise) that discourage the use of the Debian logo? Information about the Debian logos (there are two: the Open Use logo (just the swirl) and an Off

Re: can the u.s. variant of debian be exported?

2004-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 21:06:20 -0700, jerry perlman wrote: > Can the u.s. variant of debian be exported? Most likely, yes. http://www.debian.org/legal/ contains details regarding cryptography in Debian, including copies of notifications to the US government. > This is essentially my question,.

Re: Debian 3.0r2

2003-12-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:47:43 +, Massimiliano Zagaglia wrote: > I'm seeing that Debian 3.0r2 is yet "unofficial". Not as I understand it. 3.0r2 has been announced in http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121a.en.html and CD images can be constructed through http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-c

Re: Netzwerkmodernisierung - Anforderung von Informationsmaterial bei Betriebssystemherstellern

2003-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
I'm taking the liberty to respond in English as my German is effectively read-only and as the default language of the debian-project mailing list you adressed is English. On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 14:42:21 +0200, Jens Fechter wrote: > im Netzwerk der Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Rüdesheim befinden sic

Re: Gewerbe.

2003-06-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 00:45:20 +0200, Özmen Yaman wrote: > Kann Debian auch im Gewerbe verwendet werden, wie zB. im Copy-Shop oder > Firma? Yes it can. All the software in Debian proper conforms to the DFSG (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.de.html#guidelines), which includes 6. Kei

Re: Debian Organisation

2003-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 22:53:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How is the organisation structure of Debian? See http://www.debian.org/devel/ . > Is it somehow related to the FSF? The FSF's philospophy on free software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/) is shared to a large degree by many, but

Re: Stance on SCO?

2003-05-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 21:46:53 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Does the Debian project have a stance on the SCO issue? If so which > one? Since we still distribute the Linux kernel, I guess that we > don't believe that it infringes SCO's alleged intellectual property. To the best of my knowledg

Re: MySQL 4.0.12 to Testing pkg

2003-04-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:59:01 -0400, Neil Halloran wrote: > Is there a way I could receive an estimation of when MySQL 4.0.12 > will be added to the testing distribution. It will be added to testing once the packages fulfill the criteria for doing so. See http://www.debian.org/devel/testing fo

Re: Postsript needed?

2003-04-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 13:55:38 -0400, Valecia Summers wrote: > I crrently have a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 1220C (non-postcript) that I need > to be postscript for publishing. Do you have a current driver/software/part > for OSX 10.2.3? No. The Debian project concerns itself with the development o

Re: [Fwd: Partnerschaft mit IT-Ausbildern]

2002-06-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:33:10 +0200, Werner Weber wrote: > ich habe vor ber einem Monat die untenstehnde Mail versandt. Leider habe > ich noch keine Antwort erhalten. The most likely explanation for that is that you seem to make a few incorrect assumptions. First of all, the Debian project is

Re: Install

2002-06-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 22:05:12 -0700, Donovan Colbert wrote: > www.debian.org proved to be a frustrating series of fruitless efforts to try > and figure out how to best get the media to install. I tried a CD based > install, but being a w32 oriented guy, ran into a variety of issues with > creati

Re: Date for kde 3.0 binaries

2002-05-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 19:25:57 +0200, David Latapie wrote: > Do you have an _approximate_ date for availability of KDE 3.0 under Debian ? When it is ready, approximately. See http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?thold=-1&mode=nested&order=0&sid=649 for some more discussion. HTH, Ray -- Are

Re: French version

2002-03-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 15:26:49 -0500, Plamondon, Julie wrote: > I would like to know if Debian is available in french version? That depends a lot on what you would consider to be a french version. The Debian website contains a lot of information pertaining to localisation support for various la

Re: problem in installing xlibs.

2002-03-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 15:04:20 +0800, frankie wrote: > I have problem with installing xlibs in my system, debian-project is not an appropriate mailing list for general user questions; those belong on debian-user. > temp# dpkg -i xlibs_4.1.0-14_i386.deb > > dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in

Re: Linux-Buch

2002-03-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:46:47 +0100, H.-P.Landen wrote: > für mein Buch würde ich gerne Debian-Linux als Referenz nehmen, da es mit > Abstand die beste Distribution ist. Please use the correct name in your book: Debian GNU/Linux. > Meine Frage ist nun; gibt es die Möglichkeit Debian als Buchbe

Re: Debian's logo

2002-03-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 16:18:44 +0100, Gema Alvarez Zamorano wrote: > We are writing you because we are planning to publish one book about > "Open Source" and we would like to be able to reproduce the logo of your > product "DEBIAN" and place it close to each part, where the book makes > reference

Re: debian su ppc

2001-11-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Actually, I don't speak Italian, so if any of this makes sense, blame my guesswork. English is the lingua franca on Debian lists (except those whose name indicates differently); debian-user is probably a more appropriate list for your questions. On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 19:25:36 +, luigi doronz

Re: Hello

2001-11-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 21:43:42 +0100, CyBBe wrote: > I'm just a little curious when you'll be releasing the new cd-images (of > rev4)? They've been available for two weeks now AFAICT. E.g. at http://ftp.du.se/debian-cd/2.2_rev4/i386/ (see http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html for ot

Re: info request

2001-11-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:38:49 -0500, Megan Rose wrote: > Could you tell me in what languages Debian GNU/Linux is currently > available? That question is too broad to have a meaningful answer. When do you consider a Linux distribution to be available in a particular language? When one, some, or

Re: FYI: Debian mailing lists' code of conduct

2001-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:32:50 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > [please Cc: me on replies, I'm not subscribed to -project] Please include an appropriate Mail-Followup-To header in your messages then. > Why only avoid large attachments? Avoid them at all: Why? Every mail client worth its salt h

Re: Hard Disk Access under Linux

2001-09-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
debian-project is a list for "Non-technical project-related discussions". A more appropriate place for your question is the debian-user mailing list. On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 14:42:45 +0100, ASTLE Neal wrote: > Does Linux in general access the hard disk drive via the PC's BIOS or via > the Hard Dis

Re: Reiserfs and Debian

2001-08-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 13:35:27 -0500, Jeffrey Kornuta wrote: > is it possible to use the Reiserfs file system on Debian potato? Yes, though it may not particularly easy to set up. One way to do it is to install a minimal potato system on a small partition (which you can later reuse as the swap

Re: Prochaine version de Debian

2001-05-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 16:41:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Je voudrai savoir quand la prochaine version de Debian sera disponible ? As always, "when it is ready". If you can't wait, get the "testing" or "unstable" tree from your neighbourhood Debian mirror. > Est-ce que cette prochaine ve

Re: Debian Info

2001-02-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[please use plain text for mail - mail isn't the web] On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 14:12:56 -0800, Eric Peng wrote: >I am doing some research on the Linux operating system and have a question >in regards to software running on Debian. If i have a piece of software >that runs on Red Hat, will it also ru

Re: [PROPOSAL] Allowing crypto in the main archive

2001-01-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 13:10:55 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > * DFSG free programs with crypto can be made and (re)distributed > > from the US now, as long as you don't consciously export it to > > one of 7 countries which are on a special blacklist > > Of course that

Re: [PROPOSAL] Allowing crypto in the main archive

2001-01-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:51:03 -0800, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In light of this I'm proposing to change section 2.1.5 of the Debian > policy to say: Yes! IMHO it's definitely time to make it possible for packages in the regular main archive to support crypto (mozilla, w3m, lynx, links, kernel-i

Re: Clarifications

2000-06-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:16:27 -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: >In the Debian Manifesto Ian Murdock said that Debian would be distributed >by The Free Software Foundation. This would effectively prevent a non-free >section. Why? It prevented the distribution of non-free packages as part of th

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 15:22:04 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > the main idea here is that the release cycle would be automated, and > packages would be gradutated from one tree to the next. perhaps an > intermediate tree needs to be included. i believe this idea has promise, I believe it has some pr

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 15:06:57 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > A possibly naive question: apt-get will refuse to install packages if > their dependencies aren't met. Why can't dinstall do the same? It could do so. > It wouldn't help with out and out buggy programs but at least it would > catc

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 14:12:49 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > try this hypothetical release method out: > > there are two trees. let's call them devel and production. debian saavy > folks (maintainers) run devel. new packages are uploaded to devel where > they are tested extensivly. when a package

Re: Strange voices...

2000-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 14:15:07 +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: > They say that Debian and Suse made an alliance for porting Linux on > PowerPC and in particular on Mac machines. I think you're referring to coverage like http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/0/ns-12411.html . It doesn't talk about an a