Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-01-15 Thread Teemu Likonen
bian. The reality is different: the default Debian desktop install gives you a normal easy-to-use end-user operating system and applications. This has been the case for a long time but many people still maintain old stereotypes. Of course, Debian is for servers and technical people too. -

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
for the key itself is sufficient. Obviously an encrypted partition adds one more layer and have other benefits like hiding the content. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 /// signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reg: Debian Lenny 5.03

2010-08-06 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-08-06 14:42 (+0530), Syed Ahsan Ishtiaque wrote: > I was searching for Debian Lenny 5.03 CD/DVD in your website, but > couldn't find any. Can you please redirect me to appropriate link from > where I can download Debian Lenny 5.03 iso. The latest Debian Lenny release (or rather: update) is

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
* Aron Xu [2012-02-05 16:31:20 +0800] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:10, Hyun-Gwan Seo wrote: >> Official debian website is translated many languages. (i.e. german, >> korean, français and so on) If I want to see a translated german >> page, click the 'Deutsch' at the bottom of the web site.

Happy Birthday Debian

2008-08-18 Thread Teemu Likonen
It looks like the August 16th is/was the 15th birthday of Debian: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20064/53/ So let me, a random Debian user, congratulate you all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Raphael Hertzog (2008-12-20 17:41 +0100) wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> seemed to be more oriented to scoring single posts, while here you >> are kind of inheriting a score on the poster from his posts. They are >> two quite different approaches. > > They are different

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-07-29 10:11 (-0500), Peter Samuelson wrote: > I believe freezing four months before an Ubuntu LTS release would not > benefit Debian at all. Freezing _after_ an LTS release, or at least > after an LTS freeze, would help Debian quite a lot more. I believe the same. Mark Shuttleworth said s

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll >> be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon. > > Probably not, but the release synchronization with Ubuntu may make > th

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

2010-04-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-04-11 10:31 (+0100), Frank Bauer wrote: > yesterday I came across an older laptop that I wanted to upgrade from > Windows XP to Debian testing. > > Since the CD drive went south, I had the only option to use the > installation directly from Windows. So I went to the usual > http://get.debia