hi,
Just wondering if anyone had the EEE Pc and if they had attempted a
CentOS5 install on there as yet.
I guess most of the things should just work, the wifi should also be
supported. But it would be good to find out if someone had attempted
this yet.
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > How long does one have to wait to get an answer to a simple question? So
> > I took the time to make sure one can install MailScanner through yum
> > without waiting any longer for a reply from rpmforge by setting up a
> > small repository.
>
> I saw that you had been waiting for a reply - which is why I answered. But, no
> I dont have commit access to rpmforge things. So I will most likely be
> importing MailScanner into where I do have access. And yes, I do use it on two
> domains.
Karanbir, I thought you had commit access ? Or at least I offered it at
some point. There is no problem giving you commit access though.
> > PS: You are aware I have not seen anything on the Sparc front either?
>
> The issue with centos/sparc is blocked on the installer not having decent
> sparc support - so well, it does not work. patches are welcome.
>
> However, as you might have realised there are only a few of us doing all this
> work - so things can sometimes take a bit of time to get started off, and one
> hopes that once people do join the effort they hang around and help spread it.
> So far, the experience has been quite the opposite.
The problem is that the group is small because everybody who asks about it
does not know where to go and make herself useful, and do not participate.
As long as people cannot feel part of something and can become effective
in a short time, you loose momentum.
I have been asked more than 3 times at events about s390 support and I
forward people to the centos-devel mailinglist. There is no information on
the wiki, or almost not satisfying information on the mailinglist. People
If there was an s390 SIG with a TODO list, planning, person to contact,
people would be more interested to help out or get involved. The fact
there is no such thing makes people think there is no interest, no
progress, nothing. People are less likely to help if they are the first to
take up responsibility. Being part of a group helps. Sharing information
helps.
So where does one go for s390 development ? What can people do to help the
Sparc effort (what has already been done) ? How far is the PPC effort ?
At least a well-owned SIG brings information and people together. Maybe
even do status reports and drive meetings. A SIG of course does not
guarantee all of that, but if people take ownership it does not come down
to you, Johnny or Pasi. I think it is important to not depend on the
already hard working people.
> And, I completely disagree with Dag on creating SIG's for core distro arch
> work. Further splintering an already small group of people is both counter
> productive and a waste of time. Its also one way to make sure that we loose
> further inertia in the development process.
A chicken-egg problem to me. As long as you don't give away ownership, you
don't gain people. If you don't gain people, you cannot give away ownership.
How it works now, does not scale very well imo. Any solution is welcomed.
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-- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
I am interested in assisting with the development of the Centos s390
disto.
I do have access to s390 hardware and currently support 4 linux VM
guests.
How do I get started.
Thanks,
Ray Hand
Hi all; ran this question by the anaconda list, and perhaps this is a
CentOS specific issue. In any case, maybe someone here can clarify...
I notice if I boot CentOS 5 with the askmethod param and choose HTTP
and point to my CentOS directory which is just a copy of all the files
from the CD's, it errors out, and I am forced to revert to the CD
method.
The error I see on the console and in my webserver logs indicate that
anaconda is trying to look for the following files:
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8.html
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.UTF-8
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US
Where the only files on the CD's are RELEASE-NOTES-en.html and
RELEASE-NOTES-en.
The anaconda folks seem to think that CentOS should be using the full
en_US variant:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2007-November/msg00130.…
I don't see a mantis bug on this issue -- has anyone else run into it?
Am I just doing something dumb here?
Ray
hi guys,
Just wondering what people think about creating another list for
centos-translators and regularly requesting membership there from other
sources ( like posting something on the wiki / website / other lists etc ) ?
The one issue that I can see is that there will be loads of overlap in
interest with the centos-docs list that already has most of the people
doing the translation work, and if people want to help with the wiki
translation as well - perhaps the -docs list is the best place for the
translators a well ?
Just thinking out loud at the moment, opinions welcome!
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
Morning guys,
CentOS 5.1 is nearing its release. And we're going to have Release Notes
for it.
This time the release notes will live on wiki.centos.org, not on the
ISOs itself.
See <http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1>
If anybody of you has some time over the weekend and is interested to
translate these notes into a language which is *not*
- German
- Dutch
- Romanian (though we maybe could need one more translator there)
- Czech (same as for Romanian)
- French
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Spanish
- Japanese (same as for Romanian)
then please say "here" today. (Somehow I completely forgot about
languages other than those above - anyone willing to sell me a spare
brain?).
The translations should be done on monday, but as those are living
documents, complete translation can take longer.
So is anybody interested? If you are: Open an account for yourself on
http://wiki.centos.org/ (FirstnameLastname, e.g. JoeyMiller) and send me
the account name, as translation will happen on the wiki. I'll put you
into the correct group then.
So do I hear some "Here!"s?
If yes - thank you in advance.
Cheers,
Ralph
Hi all,
IcedTea for CentOS 5/i386 is now available through the CentOS-testing
repository. IcedTea provides a development platform/runtime environment
based on OpenJDK[1]. It is basically OpenJDK, with the binary plugs
replaced by stubs or GNU Classpath code. These packages were built upon
the excellent work of the IcedTea and Fedora projects.
To use IcedTea with some Java programs that are included in CentOS like
Ant, you also need a new jpackage-utils package that is also available
through the testing repository.
Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the
CentOS Wiki at:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Take care,
Daniel
PS. IcedTea for CentOS 5/x86_64 will soon be available.
PPS. IcedTea may or may not work out of the box with Java applications
included in CentOS 5. E.g. CentOS 5 Eclipse doesn't work here, but
Eclipse from eclipse.org runs fine (after setting the compiler level to
1.5.0).