[cAos-devel] My recent spate of commits

[Nick R]

Hi all,

Martyn - I hope your talking about me !
Loved Win2k, XP added some useful stuff (like Sp2 wireless networking) but a
step backwards in other ways (stupid activation which doesn't work for me
even with a genuine key for example) and I don't like the general direction
M$ are taking - their priorities are screwed.
Maybe one day I can get out of developing .net and make a living doing php

Enjoying cAos, good so far, in-fact better than expected due to the better
than windows print quality (due to unnoticed poor colour matching), on
reverse engineered - beta drivers, which is important to me as I do a lot of
printing of price lists and flyers for my wife's business.

Good bit of work guys, I never even bothered researching the different
distros as having Martyn as my first line support ;) is a big bonus factor
for me.

I am not completely new to to Linux, used Slackware years ago (for the sole
purpose of a quake server at our house at Uni :D) and know a few things
about configuring apache/php/mysql (I like to do php in my spare time),
getting back up to speed rapidly, eg managed to partition, mount, format my
drives...

Anyhow, I am willing to help out on an occasional basis, especially as I
have Martyn to keep me on track :p.

Cheers, Nick

On 14/02/07, Martyn <martyn at theendofhistether.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>   Noone ever seems to be about on irc when I am, so I thought I'd strike
> up some discussion here instead...
>
>   A friend of mine works as a .net programmer, and has decided to
> convert his home network (1 server for ed2k:// type stuff and 1 laptop)
> to Linux!  (m$ must be getting bad if he's converting :-) )
>
>   Of course I've suggested cAos and he's very interested, and I may be
> able to twist his arm on some packaging too,  but so far in his
> installation I've been picking up bits (like foomatic and his printer
> driver) that he needs.
>
>   As an emule user he's got a big interest in aMule, so, the current rev
> of aMule requiring libiconv, I've committed that so I can update our
> aMule package that's nearly 2 years old...
>
>   The main bonus of having him on cAos will be his asking me for desktop
> packages, where my work load is on the server packages.
>
>   I'm still concerned about our lack of a cAos-3 desktop edition and our
> upgrade paths, can we get some discussion going here on that?  I may be
> able to package some things, others like Xorg are out of my league.
>
>   Okay, I've waffled enough for now, let's have someone else waffle :-)
>
> --
> Martyn Ranyard (joran)
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