My name is Ashok Gautham. I prefer the nick ScriptDevil
I am a UG student in India. I can work with Gimp. I am learning blender at
the moment. But it may take quite some time. I have been using gnu/linux for
around 4 years now. My primary distros are Archlinux and Fedora. I designed
an artwork
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Summary: Review Request: un-core-fonts - Korean TrueType fonts
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453016
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Speaking of the type-1 fonts, I see there is a project to update them
to newer formats:[http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freefont/],
which also has a wikipedia page at
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_UCS_Outline_Fonts]. But it looks
like the project ran out of steam. Am I guessing
Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding a
locl table to Linux Libertine, see
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/Ro_fonts#Linux_Libertine],
took me three hours (testing included). And that just for the regular
font. Parts of the table are (or rather should be)
P.S.: here is a sample feature file for Adobe Minion Pro (2004) made
public by Adobe:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?233@@.3bb58628!enclosure=.3bb58629
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Editing OpenType feature tables with fontforge is a big PITA. Adding
I've found CFF OpenType versions of the ghostscript URW fonts. AFAICT,
they are well done: have kerning pairs (using the correct 'kern'
feature for CFF files), has ligatures etc. They also fix the missing
mappings for Romanian (no locl table yet...). The only troublesome
point may that the author
The 2nd patch attached here may of interest to anyone that is working
on adding locl tags.
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From: George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Fontforge-devel] Cannot import GSUB .fea file
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:45:44PM +0200, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I reviewed and approved python-migrate yesterday. It's currently
waiting to be built.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452388
How long
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:45:44PM +0200, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Luke Macken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I reviewed and approved python-migrate yesterday. It's currently
waiting to be built.
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 02:00 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 19, 2008, Thomas Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Alexandre, I've watched you tilting at this windmill for months.
It's
just silly. Someone else called the demand for the FSF folks to
call it
GNU/Linux childish. I
Patrick == Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But people who fight violently against GNU/Linux most often
have some other agenda, and find all sorts of excuses to
promote only Linux, in detriment of GNU and of the Free
Software movement.
Patrick Not averyone
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:11 -0700, Ed Warner wrote:
Othe than my zone files, what else goes
into /var/named/chroot/var/named/dynamic ?
Nothing. Assuming we're already in the chroot, or we're not chrooting:
/var/named/
zone files that are set once, or manually altered.
/var/named/dynamic/
After the latest updates to hal-0.5.10-3.fc8 and hal-info-20080607-2.fc8
hald won't start. I get errors shown below when I try to start it. This
is on a Fujitsu lifebook A6110 T5550 laptop.
Where can I download older updates between the release and the current
update? The update repository
Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:39 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Michael Eager wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?
I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config
script and
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 14:01 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
Has HURD actually become a working kernel?? Ric
Apparently yes:
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
Björn Persson
I just took a peek at it. Crufty comes to mind. And, it took over ten
years to do what
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 05:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
Besides, T.A.G. was about free software since 1980. (Thieves and
Assassins Guild) If it wasn't free, it was made free. grins Ric
Arghhh - they've since moved to Sweden
Good
Les Mikesell wrote:
The statement is not wrong - the reason a few that are listed as
compatible is that the permit themselves to be replaced by the GPL.
You can not legally replace the copyright on a work that was created by
someone else, unless the license of that work specifically allows
On Jul 19, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please explain how a work containing any GPL'd material can contain
any that is not covered by the GPL, given the 'work as a whole'
provision in the license. While there are indeed licenses that
permit their own terms to be replaced by
On Jul 20, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
inode0 wrote:
Would the world be a better place with no GPL and all software created
by those who now create code under the GPL putting it into the public
domain instead?
Microsoft would almost certainly have been displaced years ago
On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They have said that they were going to block non GPL modules
Who did?
This is not something that can be done in a Free Software copyright
license any more than the GPL already does. The only way a non-GPL
module can exist today is by
On Jul 20, 2008, Thomas Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 11:03 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
# fsck US Patent law
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
That's got to be the dumbest thing I've heard you say yet. It is the
height of head in the sand syndrome.
To just blithely
On Jul 19, 2008, Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They(FreeBSD) should be protected, the users can get the ports from
source, they do not ship binaries(except the installation *.tbz
On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your meaning of object code is binary code?
The GPL defines it anything that's not source code, i.e., that's not
the preferred form for making modifications ot the software.
and the modifications is the source code?
Modifications are
On Jul 19, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone wants to go looking for binary distributions, there are
probably some of the vmware appliances at
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/ that haven't properly
followed the strict GPL requirements to provide all the
Richard M Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Freedom means having control of your own life. Using a proprietary
program means giving the developer power over you. More choice in
surrendering your freedom is not more freedom, and it does not make a
better world.
Breathing the air means
On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bizarrely, it seems one has to pay for a Live Hurd CD.
He might be inclined to charge for shipping and handling :)
I agree any reasonable person would. But he seemed to object to the
idea of having to pay anything for Free Software.
On Jul 20, 2008, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, we are hijacking a thread here, but here is a snippet:
Yeah, you're a bad, bad person! :-)
Get out of this thread! This is only for ridiculous, childish
political debates on ethics, morals and social values. Technical
content is
On Jul 19, 2008, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to explain my remark above, I was referring to the document
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
which only mentions a Live Hurd CD in the context
that it is available for purchase.
And what's wrong with that?
Are you by
On Jul 19, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
The core of the distribution is the kernel, called Linux.
What about GNU *core*utils? :-P :-D
And then, again, what if you remove Linux, install kFreeBSD or
OpenSolaris in its stead, rebuild glibc to export
The reason I ask is that, about 18 months ago, I discovered that Brother's
website provided linux drivers for many models, including the mfp that I
wanted to install. Yesterday I had reason to go back to that site, and
noticed that before every download you are required to accept the gpl and
Michael Eager wrote:
Yes, I'm running 2.0. It seems I'm not alone.
Jeez, I hate the bleeding edge. :-)
As an aside, I've been succesfully running vmware-server-1.0.6 on F9
since release. I do this by installing and default booting the latest
2.6.24 kernel from F8. I haven't needed to
Hi All,
I can not find laptop or desktop hardware that supports KVM Virtualization
(Intel-VT or AMD-V).
I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware assisted
virtualization (Hypervisor).
Can I get some recommendation?
Thanks,
-Alex
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:39:50 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Craig White wrote:
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
-- Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package
gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 (installed)
Error:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:06:58 -0430,
Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 13:22 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 20:16:33 -0430,
Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw it running on an LSI-11 (a minimal PDP-11 with
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 16:12:54 -0500,
Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
When the ATT monopoly was sensibly split up, it was then able to
I think just plain split up is a better description. I think history has
shown that the split wasn't done sensibly and
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Bizarrely, it seems one has to pay for a Live Hurd CD.
He might be inclined to charge for shipping and handling :)
I agree any reasonable person would. But he seemed to object to the
idea of having to pay anything for Free Software. I thought I'd try
his implied
On Sunday 20 July 2008 02:45:11 Kevin Kofler wrote:
What could possibly work, however, would be using the Gnash
Mozilla
plugin, after all the proprietary Flash plugin is also a Mozilla
plugin. (But nspluginwrapper would not be needed, as Gnash is
available for x86_64 too.) However, last I
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
That people made this silly and childish mistake of renaming the GNU
operating system to Linux is unfair *and* it works against the very
evangelization you claim to support.
There is no such thing as the GNU operating system,
unless you mean GNU/Hurd, which no-one would
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I think just plain split up is a better description. I think history has
shown that the split wasn't done sensibly and unfortunately we aren't
going to get a do over any time soon.
You haven't noticed the dismembered Bell's crawling back together to
resurrect the
Some kind soul pointed out that one could get rid
of the demand by NM for a keyring password
by deleting .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring
and then giving an empty password when requested.
But that made me wonder what possible point
the keyring password could have?
Is it intended as some kind of
Craig White wrote:
I returned my inkjet printer to service after some time and hadn't used
this printer with Linux since F7 if not before F7.
In 'Administration = Printing', I can print test page no problem
(obviously as root). But as a user, I get an error that seems to be
authentication but I
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 08:15 -0400, Alex Katebi wrote:
Hi All,
I can not find laptop or desktop hardware that supports KVM
Virtualization (Intel-VT or AMD-V).
I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware
assisted virtualization (Hypervisor).
Can I get some
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:15:29 -0400
Alex Katebi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware assisted
virtualization (Hypervisor).
First, it is important to note that I may be completely wrong :-),
but I don't think anyone makes chips any longer
g wrote:
snip
and appropriate section of cupsd.conf...
Location /printers/officejet
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.2.0
AuthType None
/Location
which clearly tells me that no authentication should be necessary
How do I fix this?
i am not using f9, nor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Using F8-x86_64 here, not ready to move to F9 yet but I'd like to update
OOo to v2.4.1. Using the Fedora9 src.rpm the build went fine until it
came to the spell checker component:
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 09:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:15:29 -0400
Alex Katebi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware assisted
virtualization (Hypervisor).
First, it is important to note that I may be completely
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 15:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Some kind soul pointed out that one could get rid
of the demand by NM for a keyring password
by deleting .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring
and then giving an empty password when requested.
But that made me wonder what possible point
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
The reason I ask is that, about 18 months ago, I discovered that Brother's
website provided linux drivers for many models, including the mfp that I
wanted to install. Yesterday I had reason to go back to that site, and
noticed that before every download
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Michael Schwendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:39:50 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Craig White wrote:
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
-- Missing Dependency:
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 16:04 +0930, Tim wrote:
I always found the KDE menus to be quite a mess, so that was another
nail in the coffin for me using KDE.
A total mess actually. However KDE4 is much better, and among other
goodies has the huge advantage of letting you search in the menu system
so
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 21:09:02 -0700,
Jonathan Ryshpan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 07:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
$ sudo yum update firefox
Error: Missing
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:16 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
The purpose of wallets and keyrings is to make your life easier by
having to remember just one password, the one that opens your wallet.
All the others can be securely stored in the wallet. However, if you
loose the wallet's
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:21 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote:
Is this card supported by ALSA yet in F9?
/sbin/lspci -v
AFAIK, no - X-FI should be supported by the next alsa release.
If you rather buy Creative, get an emu10k1 (SB Live/Audigy/Audigy 2) or
a ca0106 (Audigy value) based card.
Tim:
I always found the KDE menus to be quite a mess, so that was another
nail in the coffin for me using KDE.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
A total mess actually. However KDE4 is much better, and among other
goodies has the huge advantage of letting you search in the menu system
so you don't have to
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:35:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
I've run been running Fedora since FC5 and I have never seen an
update problem like this before.
Congratulations! ;o) This incident is just one of many. It has happened
before several times, with Firefox and with other packages. Firefox
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
(Sending this off-list).
Ohh no you didn't. (panto voice) ;-)
'tis a pet hate of mine too, this losing the plot and being loose with
your words, so they lose their meaning, and understanding is lost.
--
Don't
I have the same problem.
I try to install the beta driver given by Creative, but I have a issue
installation I don't understand for the moment.
On an other way, why this card can't be supported by Alsa in the next
releases ?
Gilboa Davara a écrit :
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:21 +0100,
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
trying (fruitlessly it seems) to get some
consistency in the use of terminology,
That's what I'm trying to achieve too. Or if it isn't possible to get people
to agree on terminology, then I'd like to at least understand what people
mean when they use a word. To that
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I myself almost always say Linux. It is just quicker.
And would you like to tell us what *you* mean when *you* say Linux? What is
part of Linux in your mind, and what is not part of Linux?
Björn Persson
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Björn == Björn Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Björn Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I myself almost always say Linux. It is just quicker.
Björn And would you like to tell us what *you* mean when *you*
Björn say Linux? What is part of Linux in your mind, and what
Björn is not
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:31 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
I try to install the beta driver given by Creative, but I have a issue
installation I don't understand for the moment.
Never tested it myself - but AFAIK the binary driver is a complete POS.
On an other way, why this card can't be
They have said that they were going to block non GPL
modules
Who did?
http://www.linuxactionshow.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=247
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
This is not something that can be done in a Free Software
copyright
license any more than the GPL already does. The
David Timms wrote:
Michael Eager wrote:
Yes, I'm running 2.0. It seems I'm not alone.
Jeez, I hate the bleeding edge. :-)
As an aside, I've been succesfully running vmware-server-1.0.6 on F9
since release. I do this by installing and default booting the latest
2.6.24 kernel from F8. I
Björn Persson wrote:
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I myself almost always say Linux. It is just quicker.
And would you like to tell us what *you* mean when *you* say Linux? What is
part of Linux in your mind, and what is not part of Linux?
Linux has always been just a kernel. But what you
Neal Becker wrote:
sean darcy wrote:
NM sets my nameserver based on the isp, which is _very_ slow. I've set
up a local caching nameserver which works well. But how do I tell NM to
use 127.0.0.1??
I've set up dhclient.conf with a prepend statement. If I just run
dhclient that works, i.e.
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 00:58 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
(Sending this off-list).
Ohh no you didn't. (panto voice) ;-)
Sorry about that.
poc
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On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:07 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 21:09:02 -0700,
Jonathan Ryshpan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 07:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
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On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 00:51 +0930, Tim wrote:
Tim:
I always found the KDE menus to be quite a mess, so that was another
nail in the coffin for me using KDE.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
A total mess actually. However KDE4 is much better, and among other
goodies has the huge advantage of
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:50:26 +0200
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To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@redhat.com
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Ed Warner wrote:
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On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 14:37 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:39:50 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Craig White wrote:
-- Finished Dependency Resolution
gxine-0.5.11-17.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
-- Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is
Les Mikesell wrote:
I don't see how anyone can forget that he plainly wrote that demanding
that modules be GPL'd is both legally and morally wrong. Or have any
question about the meaning of this portion of the Linux license:
Again, he said no such thing. In fact, he argued explicitly that
Gregory Hosler wrote:
snip
How do I set mount parameters for different types of file systems or for
that matter devices with specific labels or ids?
answering your questions is extensive, so i suggest;
1st - 'man fstab' after reading, note 'see also' near end,
run 'man' on listed pages
* Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080720 19:11]:
Les Mikesell wrote:
[snip]
Deliberate? _Everything_ that is not the GPL is incompatible with the GPL.
This one is a clear lie. There are dozens and dozens of GPL compatible
licenses. Any license which has no additional restrictions above
Dear All,
Where is Kdict?
I have tried
# yum search kdict
[...]
Warning: No matches found for: kdict
No Matches found
#
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Anders Karlsson wrote:
Just so that I understand this right.
Any license which will permit being replaced by the GPL, when the
software it covers is combined with software under the GPL - is
compatible with the GPL?
Anyone except the copyright holder cannot replace the terms of the
license.
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Please explain how a work containing any GPL'd material can contain
any that is not covered by the GPL, given the 'work as a whole'
provision in the license. While there are indeed licenses that
permit their own terms to be replaced by the GPL when used in this
way,
Anders Karlsson wrote:
And any license that does not permit itself to be replaced or
over-ruled by the GPL - is hence incompatible - even if it explicitly
permits combination with the GPL for any derived work or combination
work.
Am I understanding this right?
This part is incorrect. If has
Thomas Cameron wrote:
I'm talking about Linux
as a Linux distribution in very generic terms. Whether it's Fedora,
Ubuntu, Slackware, whatever.
[...]
so you probably consider Debian, Gentoo and
others different versions of Linux or something like that.
Of course.
OK, all distributions
Les Mikesell wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
You seem to not understand the difference between freedom and power,
and insist in demanding power when what you deserve and have is
freedom.
No, I understand that restrictions are not freedom.
Maybe that is because you are looking at it as a
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 13:50 +, g wrote:
g wrote:
snip
and appropriate section of cupsd.conf...
Location /printers/officejet
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.2.0
AuthType None
/Location
which clearly tells me that no authentication
Björn Persson wrote:
Fedora isn't Linux, it's a Linux distribution, but everyone calls all Linux
distributions Linux, so Fedora should be called Linux even though it
isn't Linux? Is that what you're saying? Unfortunately that doesn't help much
with defining what Linux *is*.
Or do you mean
Craig White wrote:
snip
AuthInfoRequired negotiate
got into /etc/cups/printers.conf in the printer definition and removing
the line completely solved it.
I have no idea how it got there
because you use a computer and it forgot 1st law?
interesting anyway.
do printers set up with this
Les Mikesell wrote:
Linux has always been just a kernel. But what you usually describe is a
complete distribution.
And when you talk about a complete distribution, do you call it Linux or do
you call it Fedora or CentOS or Slackware?
I can't recall ever having any reason to have a
name
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
So I may mean different things at different times.
Then I hope it's obvious from the context what you mean each time. Otherwise
it'll be confusing.
I talk about
running Linux. This is a shorthand for running GNOME in X11 with a
Linux kernel plus lots of other
Hi,
this is weird: when I try to eject a data cd the tray closes
automatically as soon as it opens, which makes removing the media
somewhat of a challenge. It happens either if manually eject the media
(directly on the cd-rom drive) or if I right click the drive icon and
choose eject.
Anyone
Can anybody explain to a non-technoid how the developers go about
deciding whether a new thing gets added to the current Fedora release, or
held to become part of the next?
I have no axe to grind here, not even a specific instance; it
just happened to occur to me that I have
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Björn Persson wrote:
Fedora isn't Linux, it's a Linux distribution, but everyone calls all
Linux distributions Linux, so Fedora should be called Linux even
though it isn't Linux? Is that what you're saying? Unfortunately that
doesn't help much with defining what
Andre Costa wrote:
snip
Anyone knows how to configure this behavior?
if it happens when you press button on front of drive,
it may not be a software problem.
have you used a paper clip to eject tray lately?
maybe you have cause a miss alignment of cam gear,
and why button should be used to
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 23:49 -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 22:39 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Michael Eager wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Mike Burger wrote:
Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?
I've installed
On Sun July 20 2008, Alex Katebi wrote:
I did it with open vmware tools. It is much better than the any any.
could you explain? if I simply run vmserver 1.06 which I just installed, it
returns the message telling me to run the installation file 'runme.pl' - if I
run that, it returns errors. If
Beartooth wrote:
Can anybody explain to a non-technoid how the developers go about
deciding whether a new thing gets added to the current Fedora release, or
held to become part of the next?
Can you explain what you mean by a new thing? Do you mean a new
software package or new feature or
Paul Smith wrote:
snip
It happens either if manually eject the media
(directly on the cd-rom drive) or if I right click the drive icon and
choose eject.
That is a bug, Andre. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451320
this is for a software bug.
note word 'manually' in above
On Jul 20, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They have said that they were going to block non GPL
modules
Who did?
http://www.linuxactionshow.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=247
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
Aah. I somehow got the idea you were talking about GPLv3
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
If Linux developers had gone down that path, they'd have created
inconvenience for people who make uses that are permitted by copyright
law, such as those who load their own private modules, never
distributed, and therefore never licensed, and a few other situations
On Jul 20, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I add some bsd code into a gpl'd work, could I then distribute the
resulting binary and only the previously gpl'd code?
No, you have to provide the whole with the permissions and the
conditions set forth in the GPL, which the modified
On Jul 20, 2008, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
That people made this silly and childish mistake of renaming the GNU
operating system to Linux is unfair *and* it works against the very
evangelization you claim to support.
There is no such thing as the GNU
On Jul 20, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't recall ever having any reason to
have a name for a subset of a distribution that only included the GNU
components and the kernel. Can someone who uses this term explain the
circumstances where it is useful?
/me mumbles something
Björn Persson wrote:
Linux has always been just a kernel. But what you usually describe is a
complete distribution.
And when you talk about a complete distribution, do you call it Linux or do
you call it Fedora or CentOS or Slackware?
Generally CentOS, since for the reasons I might have
On Jul 20, 2008, Colin Paul Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I may mean different things at different times. I talk about
running Linux. This is a shorthand for running GNOME in X11 with a
Linux kernel plus lots of other software.
Are you even sure it's Linux underneath? :-)
Some of it
Les Mikesell wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Or... Microsoft would have used that code and used it to control
people in just the same way it does with every other piece of software
it touches.
The only software that they can use to control anyone is their OS, and
they can only do that as
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