CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
No reaction on ubuntu-devel, so I am re-submitting this to ubuntu-devel-discuss. I would like to contribute back to Ubuntu (as my upstream vendor) the CD boot installer for Windows which I have created for my derived distro (Olá! OS). It is Windows installer based on Instlux which allows booting

Updates of http://changelogs.ubuntu.com

2007-09-07 Thread Pär Andersson
Hi, I often use the "view changelog" feature in aptitude to review changes before installing updates of important packages. This downloads the changelog from http://changelogs.ubuntu.com which unfortunately very often fails as the changelog site is out of sync with the archive and don't have th

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:00:53PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > It is Windows installer based on Instlux which allows booting system > from CD without modifying BIOS, by modifying Windows boot loader sequence. > > It is different from Instlux because it does not require kernel nor > initrd im

successor to ubuntu-calendar and gnome-art

2007-09-07 Thread shirish
Hi all, Does anybody of a successor to ubuntu-calendar & gnome-art. Both these apps. are kinda having end of the road existence. Does anybody know of any projects in the GNOME domain who could take the place of the two apps. told above. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuEyeCandy for refe

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Conrad Knauer
On 9/7/07, Evan Dandrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wubi, which should be integrated in the LiveCD very soon. By "very soon" do you by any chance mean for Gutsy? Or will this likely start with the Hardy alphas? CK -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modi

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Evan Dandrea napisał(a): > The functionality to fix the boot order issue has been implemented as > another option in Wubi, which is the ideal course anyway as it does not > make sense to have both Wubi and a modified Instlux as part of the > installer. > > I do appreciate the intended contribution

Position on large GPLed programs

2007-09-07 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Hello all, I filed a needs-packaging bug for UFO: Alien Invasion: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/127341 Somebody quite accurately pointed out that it is 250MB and that a package that size is a significant new burden on mirrors. Putting it on the mirrors would make life a lot easier than

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline. I read that > > the upstream version freeze deadline was August 30th, so I planned to > > upload my packages on the 30th. > >

Re: new packages freeze policy

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:40, Scott Ritchie wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > > > On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline. I read that > > > the upstream version freeze deadline was Augu