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| Matt Zimmerman 2004-07-22, 2:50 am |
| Some of you have probably noticed a number of active Debian developers
fixing RC bugs with patches being hosted at the same rather enigmatic web
site:
http://www.no-name-yet.com/
Those who attended Mark Shuttleworth's DebConf talk, or heard rumors about a
"Super Secret Debian Startup," may have connected the dots.
A number of Debian developers, myself included, have been hired by a new
company, Canonical Software, to work with and in Debian to create a derived
distribution. We haven't yet finalized a public name for the distribution
but the codename for our first release is 'Warty Warthog.' It will be free
of charge, and will be Free Software. We'll contribute bug fixes and
improvements back to the community as we make them -- not just at release
time.
We're preparing for an initial release in the near future so at the moment
all of our energy is going towards fixing release critical Debian bugs and
sending these patches back to Debian. You can find those patches at
http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/ or in debbugs.
We've been quiet this long because we wanted to have concrete work and real
patches before making any announcement. We'll have another, more formal
announcement once we have something installable to show.
If you're interested in our activities, visit http://www.no-name-yet.com/ to
check out the patches or subscribe to an ultra-low-traffic announcement
mailing list. We will send out information on that list about how to sign up
for free CDs soon.
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- mdz
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| Sergio Talens-Oliag 2004-07-22, 2:50 am |
| El Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:35:42PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman va escriure:
> A number of Debian developers, myself included, have been hired by a new
> company, Canonical Software, to work with and in Debian to create a derived
> distribution. We haven't yet finalized a public name for the distribution
> but the codename for our first release is 'Warty Warthog.' It will be free
> of charge, and will be Free Software. We'll contribute bug fixes and
> improvements back to the community as we make them -- not just at release
> time.
Good to know that there are more DDs being paid to work on what they
like and also very good to know that the project include colaborating
with Debian.
Can I ask you how do you plan to build your derived distribution? Have
you looked at the Custom Debian Distributions ideas?
I'm asking that because I feel we need a common (standard) way to
build Custom and Derived Distributions and I think all people involved
in this kind of distributions can contribute with ideas and tools and
I will love to see companies like yours getting involved in CDDs.
> We're preparing for an initial release in the near future so at the moment
> all of our energy is going towards fixing release critical Debian bugs and
> sending these patches back to Debian. You can find those patches at
> http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/ or in debbugs.
>
> We've been quiet this long because we wanted to have concrete work and real
> patches before making any announcement. We'll have another, more formal
> announcement once we have something installable to show.
>
> If you're interested in our activities, visit http://www.no-name-yet.com/to
> check out the patches or subscribe to an ultra-low-traffic announcement
> mailing list. We will send out information on that list about how to signup
> for free CDs soon.
Great, I'll subscribe now.
Greetings,
Sergio.
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Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org> <http://people.debian.org/~sto/>
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