[cAos-devel] My recent spate of commits

[Greg Kurtzer]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Martyn 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 :-) )

LOL...

>
>   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...

Sweet! :)

>
>   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.

There are several options that I have been thinking about, and I  
would like to discuss them with some of the other developers and  
contributors before introducing the ideas on the list (to make sure  
there is agreement amongst the people doing the work).

>
>   Okay, I've waffled enough for now, let's have someone else  
> waffle :-)

hehe. Thanks for the waffle!

Greg
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