Re: Y2K.

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, James Waterhouse wrote:

> Hey Christian,
>     you are doing a great job and I'm sorry that some of us newbies are not
> grateful. I also had wondered how you ever make a living seeing that you (and
> others like you like Michael) are answering questions all the time. As for the low
> numbers of maintainers... how do I go about be coming one? (I'll find that on a

There are instructions on how to apply on the Debian web site. One of the
things they require these days is a PGP or GPG key that has been signed
(verified and certified, sort of) by some trusted person (i.e. a
Debian maintainer that has a valid signed key) that you have met face to
face. This can be difficult to arrange but the now abundant Linux
conferences are nice places for that. 
I'd hope for the processing of new maintainer applications to be
streamlined a lot in future. Once applications are re-opened again. 

> webpage so no need to answer that) I'm not really setup yet to even install debian
> (still have to get hold of the MacOS... a mac connected to the internet), and my
> comps are old and slow (it's a Mac IIci, I've also got a Mac LC 630, and then there
> is the dead Amiga 2000HD), but I still would like to offer my services to the Linux

I'd suggest you set up the LC630 for building things on; it's resonably
fast for a Mac, David Huggins-Daines has one of those as well. It's a
LC so you'll need a kernel with FPU emulation. And the IIci is nice for
testing installs and packages. 

MacOS 7.1.something or 7.5 is on the Apple FTP site, as is the 7.5.3 (??)
upgrade you should install on top of that. Someone on linux-mac68k might
be able to give you some help with that.

	Michael