GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding too much) He _is_ right. The day this will happen a big part of freedom

Re: RMS is back again

2002-06-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:26:03AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: On 2002-05-31, Eliran wrote: Well, here is another response of Richard M. Stallman the FSF founder. Now he condemns the UnitedLinux (Suse, Turbo Linux, Mandrake and others joined forces). What next ? Maybe you

Re: RMS is back again

2002-06-01 Thread Eliran
- Original Message - From: Christoph Bugel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eliran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 12:26 AM Subject: Re: RMS is back again On 2002-05-31, Eliran wrote: Well, here is another response of Richard M. Stallman the FSF founder.

OO rpms and rh7.3 problems, any srpms ?

2002-06-01 Thread Erez Doron
hi i have downloaded OO's rpms from http://www.iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/OpenOffice/ installing them i get : erez@erez ~==# rpm -Uvh bidi-openoffice.org-1.0.0-5.i386.rpm libstlport4.5gcc3-4.5.3-5.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by

Re: OO rpms and rh7.3 problems, any srpms ?

2002-06-01 Thread Barak Kaufman
erez i posted myself the solution for it when the rpms just came out u need to upgrade 2 rpms to - libsdtc++3-3.0.4-1 and libgcc-3.0.4-1 thats it. good luck I looked at the mailing list and found no solution fro this. can someone compile it for rh7.3 ? or can someoune give the SRPMS ( so

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding too much) He _is_ right. The

Re: OO rpms and rh7.3 problems, any srpms ?

2002-06-01 Thread Diego Iastrubni
dont think that I am not happy for those binaries, but I would like it if anyone could build then on an old distro. since libgcc1, needs gcc3-base, and I like gcc 2.95... - diego On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:45, Barak Kaufman wrote: erez i posted myself the solution for it when the rpms just

Re: [hackers-il] Yet Another Hacktivity - An RPM Spec file forbuilding Fortune Collections

2002-06-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Doing something quite unprecedented: taking a thread frm hackers-il to linux-il, as it is getting too technical ;-) On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Included below is an RPM Spec for building a collection of fortune files. It is specific to my collection, but hopefully can be

Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0

2002-06-01 Thread Adir Abraham
Hi there As I told some of you some time ago - one of the (very few) reasons which I still keep Windows (XP) in my computer, dual booted with Linux, is because of the games (or, lack of good DirectX support in Linux). I personally, can't have a little break once in a few days with a good game of

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't like this? choose a different distro. Mandrake, Redhat and Debian, .. Some of the software contained in those distributions is not free (e.g: Netscape 4.72). But the distribution as a whole is. I don't know about Mandrake/Red

{KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Shaul Karl
Is there such a thing as full free down loadable {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS environment? By full I mean images that include that environment office suite, a web browser, development tools, documentation, all the other applications and the sources. If yes, Should IGLU have such images

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: Is there such a thing as full free down loadable {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS environment? By full I mean images that include that environment office suite, a web browser, development tools, documentation, all the other applications and the sources.

Re: OO rpms and rh7.3 problems, any srpms ?

2002-06-01 Thread Barak Kaufman
well if u like 2.95 u can rebuild the rpms (:P) but as far as i remember rh 7.3 includes the libraries for gcc3 so u shouldnt have dependancies problems trying to install the rpms i gave ... On Saturday 01 June 2002 16:18, you wrote: dont think that I am not happy for those binaries, but I

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread guy keren
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: If yes, Should IGLU have such images available? (No: this is not for Linux and beside there is not enough disk space. Yes: having a similar desk top environment is likely to promote the linux-il interests.) this is not linux software, and i don't

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: If yes, Should IGLU have such images available? (No: this is not for Linux and beside there is not enough disk space. Yes: having a similar desk top environment is likely to promote the linux-il interests.) this is not linux software, and

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDsout of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Omer Zak
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: If yes, Should IGLU have such images available? (No: this is not for Linux and beside there is not enough disk space. Yes: having a similar desk top environment is likely to promote the linux-il

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
kde/cygwin is not part of their schedule at the moment. I have no idea if native gnome on win32 is anywhere near usability (or exists) There won't be a full native KDE for windows because QT for windows is only available for commercial customers. There is a free version, but the license is

Re: Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0

2002-06-01 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Saturday 01 June 2002 17:40, Adir Abraham wrote: test setup (tested with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor and 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM, and a Geforce 3 Ti 200 graphics card), and the benchmarks, detailed, with different resolutions and games (Quake 3 and Max Payne). Still, in some

Re: Windows Gaming In Linux With WineX 2.0

2002-06-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
so if i do not have a extramly fast machine I will not be able to play? does it mean that windos is faster then linux? so I need to play older games, since the newest one will need 85-90% of my cpu, while on linux I can only give ~60-75%? that means that windows is better then linux for an

ANN: syscalltrack v0.71 boxing iguana released

2002-06-01 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
syscalltrack-0.71, the 7th _alpha_ release of the linux kernel system call tracker, is available. syscalltrack supports both version 2.4.x of the linux kernel. The current release contains some major enhancements, and various bug fixes and code cleanups. See details below. * What is

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Shaul Karl
A free version of the source I presume. I didn't understand the sentence about not allowing to compile with GPL code. Were you trying to say that you are not allowed to run a GPLed compiler on this free source code? There's a version for non commercial which can be used for 30 days,

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDsout of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: If Cygwin gives a unix like environment what are the problems with recompiling KDE 3.0 from scratch? Alternatively, what are the differences between the source of KDE 2.2.1 for Cygwin and (the source of) KDE 2.2.1 for Linux? http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/

Re: {KDE,GNOME} iso images for MS env? Distributed by IGLU? CDs out of those images?

2002-06-01 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
They currently have a beta of KDE 2.2.2 . It requires an X server. They seem to have long-term plans for porting KDE to native win32, but even if they will get to that, it will take a while. the moment that they'll start implementing QT API they'll get a ceast and decists letter from

prctl()

2002-06-01 Thread Eli Marmor
Does anybody know of any function/syscall, similar to Linux' prctl(), but for other UNIX platforms (e.g. Solaris, HP-UX)? prctl() allows its caller to receive a signal when its parent is killed (SIGCHLD is sent when the CHILD is killed, and prctl() was inteded for the opposite case). I want a

music with linux ?

2002-06-01 Thread Eli Segal
Can you guys tell me where can i find information on music production with linux ?? i'm a musician and i do most of the owrk out side of the computer and give the computer do the finish and midi ... IRC#, forums , web anything will be welcome thanx Eli