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Re: debian's on ibook documentation updated



On Son, 2002-10-06 at 03:10, Mij wrote: 
> On 05 Oct 2002 17:34:12 +0200
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Some comments about the X section:
> > 
> >     * when you say 'acceleration', you really mean '3D acceleration'. 2D
> >       is always accelerated by the ati/radeon driver
> >     * my name is Michel
> 
> really sorry. michel, your surname sounds like german, so michael comes
> its way :) I'll fix it asap

Thanks.

> >     * it's 'XFree86', not 'xfree'. The name has a meaning so I think
> >       it's important to spell it correctly
> >     * LinuxPPC was a bad distro which no longer exists. We are running
> >       Linux/PPC
> 
> you're fucking paranoid! :P

I'm a nitpicking perfectionist, sure, but paranoid? ;)


> >     * I have taken down the binaries at
> >       http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/ because I can't
> >       maintain them. The dri-trunk debs are much better anyway. I always
> >       keep at least two versions of the packages available, and old
> >       versions are kept in /var/cache/apt/archives, so broken upgrades
> >       shouldn't be a problem
> 
> Actually, i noticed that. While writing, i was wondering whether someone
> could in the future maintain them for you.

Why would anyone want to do that?

> I proposed myself asking on the list but this went forgotten

I'm not sure I understand this sentence. You want to maintain them?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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