Re: Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review
From my perspective, it would be better to create a cross distro list of hardware compatibilty. This would show which pieces of hardware work and which don't. The benefits of this are legion, but here are the main ones: 1. Single database for new linxu users to look in 2. Single database to point vendors at in an attempt to get them to understand how large their Linux base really is I've been thinking about starting a project just like this for a long time. If anyone is interested, please let me know! Maybe it would be good to only target ubuntu at first, and later expand the focus. Probably the best candidate for this is the new LHCP from Fedora, which is very similar to the Hardware DB Ubuntu has, but has a scope of more than just Ubuntu. As such, I would create a spec about getting the common client in Ubuntu. The LHCP project, while it sounds interesting, doesn't seem to be active at all, judging by the mailing list activity. Ciao Paulus -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
support for .metalink
Hello Everybody, Is there possibility to have ubuntu .metalink for i386 (English) AMD (English) atleast somewhere for people to start using .metalink. I am sure there are people who have pretty high speeds which would benefit everybody as people would be able to download faster. The site to know more about metalinking is www.metalinker.org and there is a GUI python based .metalink editor at http://hampus.vox.nu/metalink/ which people could/should use. To know more about .metalink wikipedia is also very cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink . There is already a mini-repository at http://metalink.packages.ro/ which can be used. Also KGet is supporting the .metalink format so we do have a download manager which supports it. Although I have nothing to do with metalinker.org in any commercial sense but do like the idea. There may be few things which might not be perfect, but seems a logical way as people get mroe speeds then are able to max their connection, using this. Lemme know what u guys think :) -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Don't install irrelevant character set fonts
Hi ! If you give a look at your OpenOffice.org Writer fonts list, you will notice that it starts with 40 fonts whose names begin with ae_. These fonts are designed for Arabic, Japanese, etc. character sets, and thus aren't really interesting for others charsets. They all look quite the same, and they double the size of the list, impeding the user who is searching for a nice font for him (there are much, but at the end of the list). There are other fonts in the list that are designed for specific languages (ttf-* packages). Since Ubuntu has a nice localisation management, I suggest we add the fonts to the language-pack-* packages' Recommends, and not to ubuntu-desktop's. We still need to be able to print Unicode characters: this can be done using FreeFonts and DejaVu. Then, most of fonts should be installed following what the user requests. Any occidental language support should install Latin fonts, and Chinese chinese fonts... The only common fonts should be 2 or 3 large Unicode support fonts. When a user wants to use a language, (s)he installs the language support and gets the fonts. Maybe the Language support tool could use a column more, Font support only, to avoid installing all translations. This way, you can select easily nice and relevant fonts, and we may install more oringinal fonts. Am I saying something stupid here ? ;-) Do you think this is worth a spec ? Milan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
