Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Your comments beg the question, "*do* HAL and D-Bus ever actually need > to be restarted" (and, if so, why?). As far as I know, they need to be restarted on two conditions: (1) Some HAL/DBus config changes (2) Software changes (to

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned > course of action is to reboot the system if HAL or DBus need to be >

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Coleman Kane writes: > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott > > wrote: > > > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > > > >

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Coleman Kane wrote: > I think you're confusing "all of Linux" with Ubuntu. Read the link target again. The HAL/DBus people in Ubuntu wanted to do the right thing, and just restart the daemons. All the upstream package maintainers -- the people writing the app

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Susan Cragin
And it's going to get worse. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/424927Sadly, I'm quite excited about the brain f*#k scheduler. Susan-Original Message- From: Shawn O'Shea Sent: Oct 16, 2009 7:36 PM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: It's

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Shawn O'Shea
Along similar lines to Ben's original link, apparently stability problems in Ubuntu have frustrated the Eeebuntu developer to the point that he is giving up on maintaining Eee utils for Ubuntu for the EePC. http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html -Shawn On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Colema

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Coleman Kane
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott > wrote: > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > Yes, t

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned > course of action is to reboot the system

It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Scott
This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned course of action is to reboot the system if HAL or DBus need to be restarted/refreshed. Can anyone