[Mageia-dev] Libreoffice

2013-04-06 Thread André Salaün
Is it planed to ugrade Libreoffice in Mageia 2 ? -- A.Salaün

Re: [Mageia-dev] raid 1 dracut

2013-04-02 Thread André Salaün
Le Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:10:58 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie a écrit: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 02/04/13 17:28 did gyre and gimble: On 2 April 2013 00:33, André Salaün andresal...@free.fr wrote: It was a fresh install Can you open a bug on https://bug.mageia.org

[Mageia-dev] raid 1 dracut

2013-04-01 Thread André Salaün
I have installed mageia 3 b 4 on a fujitsu xt 100 s3. (intel c200 raid component). But booting the system dracut lets me in console. -- A.Salaün

Re: [Mageia-dev] raid 1 dracut

2013-04-01 Thread André Salaün
It was a fresh install Le Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:23:07 +0100 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie a écrit: 'Twas brillig, and André Salaün at 01/04/13 20:18 did gyre and gimble: I have installed mageia 3 b 4 on a fujitsu xt 100 s3. (intel c200 raid component). But booting the system

[Mageia-dev] Nouveau nvidia vesa conflict

2013-02-24 Thread André Salaün
It is not possible to use nvidia drivers neither vesa with nouveau (nvidia 9600 gt, all updated today)? Even if I blacklist nouveau and uninstall it I have a conflict. -- A.Salaün

[Mageia-dev] conflict libgamin

2013-02-24 Thread André Salaün
Since some weeks there is a conflict between libgamin1 and libgamin-1. -- A.Salaün

Re: [Mageia-dev] Nouveau nvidia vesa conflict

2013-02-24 Thread André Salaün
Le Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:20:03 +0200 Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org a écrit: Jose Jorge skrev 24.2.2013 20:54: Le 24/02/2013 12:32, André Salaün a écrit : It is not possible to use nvidia drivers neither vesa with nouveau (nvidia 9600 gt, all updated today)? Even if I blacklist nouveau

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3

2013-01-19 Thread André Salaün
Le Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:04:13 + Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk a écrit: On 18/01/13 21:50, André Salaün wrote: Le Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:19:24 + Maurice Batey maur...@bcs.org.uk a écrit: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:09:41 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: As Grub2 devs all but insist Grub2

Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3 (was: Feedback on Mageia 3 beta1)

2013-01-18 Thread André Salaün
Le Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:19:24 + Maurice Batey maur...@bcs.org.uk a écrit: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:09:41 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: As Grub2 devs all but insist Grub2 must be installed to the MBR, Thus preventing the use of such bootloadcers as GAG, and Extipl. so in that respect GRUB2

[Mageia-dev] Why no totem-plugin-arte in Mageia ?

2012-11-25 Thread André Salaün
All is in the subject. -- A.Salaün Ne lâchez rien.

[Mageia-dev] Not very important require about mail checker.

2012-11-21 Thread André Salaün
Hello ! Is it possible to reintroduce gnubiff in Mageia 3. All mail checkers (in mga 2) depend on a wm. In kde they don't check the mail spooler, only kmail, gmail, thunderbird etc. Gnubiff is more versatile. If I am wrong excuse me ;-) (but tell me which mail checker is running under every wm

Re: [Mageia-dev] Not very important require about mail checker.

2012-11-21 Thread André Salaün
Le Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:02:13 + Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com a écrit: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/11/2012 10:29, André Salaün wrote: Hello ! Is it possible to reintroduce gnubiff in Mageia 3. All mail checkers (in mga 2) depend on a wm. In kde

[Mageia-dev] Mageia B1 fresh install

2011-04-07 Thread André Salaün
I installed freshly Mageia B 1 i586 on a Athlon 3500 proc and nv chipset with a graphic card nvidia 9500gt. Nothing to say : every thing goes well and rapidly during process install. At the end, it proposed to update packages for security I approved (ethernet connection) : all was right. I

[Mageia-dev] Alpha 2 fresh install dvd i586

2011-03-16 Thread André Salaün
On a old computer (Athlon 64, printer epson c82, scanner epson 1650 photo, usb wireless keyboard and mouse, ethernet network) Installation stage (choice kde) : All good but : -Boot loader : no choice, I had to volontary select configure in the last summary page . I hope final release will give

Re: [Mageia-dev] Alpha 2 fresh install dvd i586

2011-03-16 Thread André Salaün
Le Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:03:42 +0100 Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com a écrit: Op woensdag 16 maart 2011 23:30:59 schreef André Salaün: On a old computer (Athlon 64, printer epson c82, scanner epson 1650 photo, usb wireless keyboard and mouse, ethernet network) Installation stage

[Mageia-dev] test xorg

2011-03-07 Thread André Salaün
Card nvidia 9500 GT VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1) Vesa, nv, nouveau and nvidia drivers work fine. Compiz-fusion works with nvidia driver (under kde4 and xfce).

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bootscreen suggestion

2011-02-23 Thread André Machado
Oh, sorry ;(

[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!

2011-02-22 Thread André Machado
I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports for both i586 and x64 architetures. When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even though this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to migrate to Mageia and here is the clever.

Re: [Mageia-dev] About panotools patent problem (and other problematic rpms)

2011-02-19 Thread André Machado
This sound like w32codecs issues. I suggest create a nonfree repository or don't install it if user choose a non-European country during install.

[Mageia-dev] Source code deployment

2011-02-19 Thread André Machado
How do you plan deploy applications source code to user? Put it on installation DVD would be good, but will increase download size. Other options are put it on a separated DVD or just at repositiries. However, we must study GPL for these last option.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

2011-02-19 Thread André Machado
If ask.com has an agreement with Mandriva - and Mageia is not Mandriva - I don't see reason to continue using it. However, this is a great opportunity to us make agreement with great search engines and obtain funds. Maybe in the future we can have our own meta search engine, such like Big Busca -

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-21 Thread andré
releases. my 2 cents :) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

2010-10-21 Thread andré
- André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-20 Thread andré
that there is a problem. And it will produce a lot of duplicate bug reports, evidently. my 2 cents :) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-20 Thread andré
a particular package only has problems on some systems. A more readily accessible skip.list blacklist would make it easier to avoid accidently re-installing a package that didn't work as expected the first time, for whatever reason. - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-20 Thread andré
Fernando Parra a écrit : On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:44:29 +0200 Michael Scherermisc-qfijtcdg...@public.gmane.org wrote: I do not think I am ok to be counted in the we you use. I do not think I want, nor that I will even try to get a considerable number of new users, I want a sustainable

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

2010-10-13 Thread andré
goes out (and why). These policies must align with (and be part of) Mageia values and direction. Cheers, Romain A good summary of the issues involved - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-08 23:45, andré a écrit : Frank Griffin a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Thanks. So this thread is to see if there were a possibility to programme a more efficient roll-back option so that it would be more aware of the previous dependencies needs for the previous

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
Luca Berra a écrit : On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : Note that configuration files that have been changed from the installation default are often already saved. (Generally .old is appended to the configuration

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-09 Thread andré
on the system in question. - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

2010-10-08 Thread andré
be useful for computers with less free disk space. Of course how much disk space is usable to save old programs on a computer depends on the disk space usage for other purposes over time. my 2 cents :) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread andré
making any RPMs for the extensions. (I would make localisation extensions an exception.) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread andré
;) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-06 Thread andré
the same software selection on a large number of computers -- without creating a custom installation DVD. Think of the potential :) - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Michael Scherer a écrit : Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 20:17 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit : On 5 October 2010 19:53, Tux 99tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote: I looked at the description that Michael gave. And I think I know what a rolling

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-06 Thread andré
effort. - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-06 Thread andré
release, with dependancies corresponding to the libraries, etc of the earlier release ? In the first case, no saving of space. In the second, additional libraries, etc would probably have to be installed, which could be a stability nightmare, as well as saving relatively little space. - André

Re: [Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Marc Paré a écrit : school/university labs... etc. And even for personal use, not many would appreciate having to do an unanticipated reinstall or restore from backup. Particularly those who want to avoid upgrading their distro every 6 months. ;) Rolling distro, anyone ? - André (andre999

Re: [Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

2010-10-06 Thread andré
Sorteal a écrit : On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2010/10/7 Marc Parém...@marcpare.com: I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be principally a KDE distro with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread andré
by its ease of use. Mageia starts with this strength, which we should promote. That doesn't stop us from communicating the range of capabilities of Mageia, just that we should avoid too narrow a focus. - André (andre999)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-02 Thread andré
role in identifying these various niche markets. - André (andre999) Cheers GL

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-02 Thread andré
, Young Family, and Home Office, for example, all containing the go-openoffice office suite, among other applications. I believe that the current Mandriva DVD doesn't have any overlap between installation groups. - André (andre999) I like this approach. Same here. When I used SuSE Linux 4.4.1

Re: [Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

2010-09-30 Thread andré
on having a signed copyright assignment before any contribution - even for bug reports. So my bug reports went to the go- version (or via Mandriva). - André (andre999), long-time user of Openoffice (usually the officiel version). ___ Mageia-dev

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia WelcomeCenter?

2010-09-30 Thread andré
of the Gnome desktop, which I presume has an equivalent under KDE. Is the idea essentially equivalent to enhancing the MCC for a more complete range of settings to configure ? - André (andre999) ___ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https

[Mageia-dev] Can Firefox be included in Mageia?

2010-09-30 Thread André Machado
Years ago, the GNU project recompiled Firefox with a new name - Iceweasel - what is now used on Debian-based distros. Now, the GNU project has your own navigator: IceCat. Reason was a issue with Firefox logo and names, what are trademarks of Mozilla Foundation. So, my question: Mageia may use

Re: [Mageia-dev] An idea for improve URPMI ;)

2010-09-30 Thread André Machado
I guess what current Mandriva downloads and installs by dependency groups, eg: if a package A must be updated and A depends of B and C, what will be updated too, URPMI downloads B, C and A and install them. (Someone to packaging team can explain better?) I'm asking if is possible force or make

Re: [Mageia-dev] Can Firefox be included in Mageia?

2010-09-30 Thread André Machado
As a note, I spoke with Pascal Chevrel today from Mozilla Europe. He told me that Debian was going back to use Firefox. Legal issues are solved WOW! STOP THE MACHINES!!! Have you more details? :D Whell, the e-mail is: trademarks at mozilla dot com . Sorry ;) .

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-30 Thread andré
André Machado a écrit : - Display on the welcome screen basic hardware information : Processor, RAM, video card and the driver currently activated. Can this be done using HTML pages or need some extra tool? - A link to sysinfo:// that offers some hardware information that could fit

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-30 Thread andré
be dumbing down Mageia. As well as being very easy to implement, as the descriptions are normally already there and localised. (That is part of the XDG menu specs, the norm used by Mandriva, and many other distros.) Just an idea ... - André (andre999

[Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

2010-09-29 Thread André Salaün
OpenOffice or LibreOffice for Mageia ? http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/announce/msg0.html http://www.documentfoundation.org/ -- A.Salaün ___ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
doing something. I believe that this task is easy. Let's complete tasks what I wrote in README and see where it will lead us. Of course, this tool is intended for novice users, the experts will disable it so that come the first time. Reguards, André

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
- Display on the welcome screen basic hardware information : Processor, RAM, video card and the driver currently activated. Can this be done using HTML pages or need some extra tool? - A link to sysinfo:// that offers some hardware information that could fit inside the welcome center as

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia WelcomeCenter?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
Hi Olivier, The idea here is not only to give general information during installation but to create a welcome screen that'll help newbies get around a linux distro : what are the major softs to use to cruise de net, create text document, listen to music, configure PC, desktop and such.

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
I remembered now that Welcome center will lead to creation of more two pages: http://welcome.mageia.org - the online version of Welcome Center, acessible from the same with news and links to frequent questions what will be at: http://kb.mageia.org - A full knowledge base in the form of questions

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia We lcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
OK, but we need put a online version of WC. Maybe, instead of put a FAQ list, put links to random wiki artcles. As to the knowledge base, I recognize that with the wiki, it really is not necessary. ___ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
Dick Gevers dvgev...@... writes: Dear Andre! On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:03:05 + (UTC), Andre Machado wrote about [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?: http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/925/mageiawelcome.png And this is supposed to cover my whole

Re: [Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
Nooo! unless you want the guy maintaining the go-oo/libreoffice packages to commit suicide :) There may be a maintainer for each suite, as there may be a regular for the Linux kernel and other kernel for Free. In the latter case, we do a poll;)

Re: [Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
we can have both packages :) I say more: we SHOULD have both packages :) And shoud have too OxygenOffice and BROffice, this, the same OpenOffice but the Brazilian version, that changed its name due to a legal question with a local enterprise what is a ownership to OpenOffice name in this

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
guys, I just found out that Linux Mint has something similar to what we want to implement, but the difference is that theirs has only links to the websites of our community and will have links to the most common tasks that the user will perform:

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia We lcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
I agree with Dick, for me the whole idea seems patronising. I have seen this described as being for newbies or old users, well at 67 tears old I certainly do not feel the need for this. Think in emotive computer. Think that user starts up your computer and sees a window with text: Good

Re: [Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia We lcome Center?

2010-09-29 Thread André Machado
Gustavo Giampaoli giampaoli.gust...@... writes: I think this Welcome center would appear in the very first boot. Just as the welcome page of Mandriva. And with a click, in the X, you remove it and it never appears again. You wouldn't see it in every boot. That's the point: user can

Re: [Mageia-dev] A comparison of forum software from a security POV

2010-09-27 Thread andré
on the respective sites, I would also choose FUDforum for Mageia. My 2 cents - André (Canada) ___ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev

[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

2010-09-20 Thread André Machado
Guys, Mandriva - and many other distros, such like Arch Linux - are optimized to i686 architeture, what means Pentium II. Despite the need to keep compatibility with older machines, what would be the problem if packages was compiled aganist Pentium III or 4? Would the system gain more speed?