Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2009-01-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > > He may be a grown man with some other kind of problem - like no job - > > these posts must take up some time for him to write and seem to be > > becoming his sole occupation. > > Well, he certainly doesn't appear to have ever contributed anything e

What major open source releases/updates are you most anticipating in 2009?

2009-01-02 Thread Esther Schindler
Perhaps it's only because I'm tired of reading about sexist posts and I want to change the subject... but I have a different issue to raise. I'm planning to work on writing an article next week for CIO.com (likely a slide show in fact), and I'd like some Real World Input to inspire me. The q

Re: What major open source releases/updates are you most anticipating in 2009?

2009-01-02 Thread Helen Faulkner
> So: what are you looking forward to? And more importantly -- why do you > think it's so nifty? Well, I can't possibly be the only one here who is really looking forward to the Lenny release! :) Because Debian is great, a newly-released Debian is much more fun than a nearly-released Debian, an

Re: What major open source releases/updates are you most anticipating in 2009?

2009-01-02 Thread Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso
2009/1/2 Esther Schindler : > So in short: tell me about the open source releases you're really looking > forward to in 2009. Can boys play too? :-) Compiz development will probably get restructured (yet again). I really like Compiz. I think it's the way window management should always have been,

Re: What major open source releases/updates are you most anticipating in 2009?

2009-01-02 Thread Brenda Wallace
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Esther Schindler wrote: > So: what are you looking forward to? And more importantly -- why do you > think it's so nifty? Drupal 7 - becuase of all the work gone into database abstraction done right. and i actually enjoy updating modules to a new version. Amarok -