Re: distro requirements

Am 29. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so:

> On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:08 am, der.hans kindly wrote:

Keeping most of the body as this is meant to be a wiki, of sorts :).

> > Please make suggestions. Once we have a fairly stable and mostly
> > agreed upon feature list we can qualify distributions and then
> > decide which ones we want to have available as defaults at
> > InstallFests.
> >
> > ###
> > distro requirements:
> > - we can install it
> > - package management
> > - secure ( e.g. no root-only distros )
> > - usable on intel/amd/ppc 200 processors^
> >
> >
> > good things to have:
> > - can do security-only updates*
> > - can do dist upgrades
> > - we have people who use it*
> > - available for x86 and PPC
> > - Live CD for hardware testing
> > - partition resizer that understands Linux and m$ partitions
>
> I would add, it has a strong, active user forum somewhere for later
> support.

Good point. All the distros we've considered to, but I guess we can't
count on it.

>
> > ###
> >
> > * probably should be requirements
> > ^ subject to number tweaking
> >
> > Anyone want to start a thread like this for hardware requirements?
> >
> > [1] Apologies to Alexander and Dennis as I know they hashed about
> > on some things a couple of months ago and this might be part of
> > what they covered.
> >
> > [2] Note the random sig that came up for this email...
>
> Do you really have random sigs, or are you joking. If you do, how do
> you do that??? -Siri Amrit

clumsily.

I have a script that uses $RANDOM to pick one of the available signatures.

sigrot - Signature file rotation program.
signify - Automatic, semi-random ".signature" rotator/generator
ksig - graphical tool for managing multiple email signatures

signify and ksig look interesting. Maybe I should finally replace my
script.

ciao,

der.hans
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