Re: [Mageia-discuss] Attention, please

2011-02-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:35:12 + (UTC) André Machado afmach...@dcemail.com wrote: We all know that, nowadays, Ubuntu is the distribution most widely used and known worldwide. Many users are afraid to try other distros because they are accustomed to Ubuntu and many remasters are Ubuntu or

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Alpha 2 with the 700MB dual ISO

2011-03-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Ouch, even drakconf isn't available on the 700MB ISO... And easyurpmi isn't Mageia-enabled :( On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:33:05 +0100 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Ok, I re-installed from scratch and selected vesa (and disabled composite) in the installer itself, which at least

[Mageia-discuss] /usr/include/multiarch-XXX

2011-06-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, Is there any reason I have these directories under my Mageia install? I thought this thing was a Debian- (and Ubuntu-) specific innovation: $ cd /usr/include/multiarch-x86_64-linux/ $ rpm -qf * $ cd /usr/include/multiarch-x86_64-linux/ le fichier /usr/include/multiarch-x86_64-linux/cups

[Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates

2011-07-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, It would be nice if mageiaupdate displayed the list of available updates *before* asking for a password. That way you don't have to bother typing it in if you aren't interested in these specific updates. Regards Antoine.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates

2011-07-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:04:03 +0200 Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+mag...@gmail.com wrote: On vendredi 01 juillet 2011 at 21:39, Antoine Pitrou wrote : It would be nice if mageiaupdate displayed the list of available updates before asking for a password. That way you don't have to bother typing

Re: [Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates

2011-07-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:58:30 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 1. So you don't use a package you think it will cause no problems if a security problem with said package remains unfixed? Yes. Feel free to give a counter-example :) 2. Especially packages which were installed

Re: [Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates

2011-07-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:22:30 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: No need to. For me a system is a whole. If I have one insecure part the whole system is insecure. That's getting really off-topic. If you arguing that nobody should skip any security update, then please make a

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Installer: Server v. desktop kernel: No choice?

2011-07-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:28:39 +0100 Maurice Batey maur...@bcs.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:25:55 +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: What problem do you have with x86_64 install? There were problems with some apps' 64-bit versions, e,g, Java/Flash extensions for Firefox, and as (from

[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 1 and Intel Sandy Bridge?

2011-10-03 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, I am considering buying an Intel Sandy Bridge-based laptop (a Lenovo X121e) and I am wondering whether Mageia 1 (not Cauldron) works ok with it, especially the integrated GPU. The CPU+GPU is apparently a Core i3-2357M. Does anyone have any feedback? (yes, there is also an AMD version, I

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 1 and Intel Sandy Bridge?

2011-10-03 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:57:38 +0100 Robert Wood robert.w...@apostrophe.co.uk wrote: If it's of any help I have got Mageia 1 going on an i5 Sandy Bridge processor based mobo. The only issue I had was with the nvidia nouveau driver. Meaning you didn't use the Intel integrated GPU?

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 1 and Intel Sandy Bridge?

2011-10-03 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Thank you, and thanks everyone for their answers! Regards Antoine. On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:21:37 +0300 Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Antoine Pitrou skrev 3.10.2011 20:50: Hello, I am considering buying an Intel Sandy Bridge-based laptop (a Lenovo X121e) and I am wondering

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Network connection at install time

2011-10-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:18:57 +0200 Rémi Verschelde r...@verschelde.fr wrote: 2011/10/10 Frank Griffin f...@roadrunner.com: If the network failure is with a wired interface (eth0), then you have a simple way to verify this without going very far into an install.  On the DVD, in the

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 alpha 1 is out

2011-11-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
The i386 live CD works much better (unfortunately GNOME 3 seems a chore to use). Regards Antoine. On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:23:01 +0100 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:35:57 +0100 Anne nicolas enn...@mageia.org wrote: Hi there Mageia 2 alpha 1 is finally

[Mageia-discuss] Unhelpful update changelogs

2012-01-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, Not sure I'm missing something, but when there's a software upgrade available (either in rpmdrake, or in the update manager), say today's Pidgin: Version : 2.10.1-1.mga1 Version actuellement installée : 2.10.0-1.1.mga1 the changelog doesn't display specifically the

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Cpufreq management

2012-01-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:20:48 +0100 Pierre Jarillon jaril...@abul.org wrote: Cpufreq management is not obvious and not easy for a beginner. However it is useful to save power and reduce the noise (lower speed of fans). It is useful on laptops and also on desktops. I use intel procs: 4CPU :

Re: [Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements?

2012-01-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:13:58 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: In https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=5t=1661 there's a poll running which lists all kinds of important features of a distribution. Unfortunately until today this poll has not received enough attention

Re: [Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements?

2012-01-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:19:45 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: (and let's not talk about Modern GUI: for me Gnome 2 is as modern as Gnome 3 and KDE 4) modern in this context means opposed to the traditional GUIs. traditional is undefined. Is Gnome 2 traditional? What

Re: [Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements?

2012-01-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:03:28 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: No problem if it is not how you function. Your opinion about other users is your opinion. That's a rather silly answer isn't it? You are asking users' feedback and then tell them that you don't care about it.

Re: [Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements?

2012-01-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:37:18 +0100 Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/1/29 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net: Well this is becoming quite sterile. I don't know how you can claim to represent (let alone decide) how [we] users function better than anybody else. Unless you

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Problem after the last glibc update 01-02-2012 : startup process very long and regular freezing with big activity disk

2012-02-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:53:51 +0100 Vinet Raphaël superap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 1. Thx to try 2. All is (normaly ;-) ) perfectly connected 'cause it is a laptop 3. For fsck I used this [root@localhost ~]# fsck -N -V fsck de util-linux-ng 2.18 Contrôle de tous les systèmes de

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Pronunciation

2012-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:18:46 -0500 imnotpc imno...@rock3d.net wrote: I would like to talk to others about my experiences with Mageia, but I'm not sure how to pronounce the name. Is the 'g' soft, as in the American English pronunciation of 'magic', or is it a hard 'g' like 'gate'? The

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Pronunciation

2012-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:05:53 +0100 Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote: Op maandag 20 februari 2012 16:31:19 schreef Antoine Pitrou: Hello, On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:18:46 -0500 imnotpc imno...@rock3d.net wrote: I would like to talk to others about my experiences with Mageia

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 beta 1

2012-03-03 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:00:30 +0100 Anne nicolas enn...@mageia.org wrote: Hi there As announced on blog, isos are now available on public mirrors. http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/02/21/mageia-2-is-approaching-test-mageia-2-beta-1/ Still no live cds available but we hope to have it ready in

[Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, Just had the following error with the latest security updates: 2 transactions d'installation ont échoué Une erreur est survenue pendant l'installation des paquetages : le fichier /usr/include/openssl/cms.h de l'installation de lib64openssl-devel-1.0.0d-2.3.mga1.x86_64 entre en conflit

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:28:48 +0200 Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote: Am 12.04.2012 00:18, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: Hello, Just had the following error with the latest security updates: 2 transactions d'installation ont échoué Une erreur est survenue pendant

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:27:57 +0200 Manuel Hiebel man...@hiebel.eu wrote: Le 12/04/2012 00:18, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : Hello, Just had the following error with the latest security updates: 2 transactions d'installation ont échoué Une erreur est survenue pendant l'installation des

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:18:18 +0200 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Une erreur est survenue pendant l'installation des paquetages : le fichier /usr/include/openssl/cms.h de l'installation de lib64openssl-devel-1.0.0d-2.3.mga1.x86_64 entre en conflit avec le fichier du paquetage

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:37:56 -0500 Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgr...@att.net wrote: On Thursday, April 12, 2012 04:51:05 am Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:18:18 +0200 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Une erreur est survenue pendant l'installation des paquetages

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:51:25 -0500 Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgr...@att.net wrote: $ urpmq --whatprovides libopenssl-devel lib64openssl-devel|lib64openssl-devel|lib64openssl-devel|lib64openssl-devel Which doesn't look right to me. Regards Antoine. How about the output of: $

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Upgrade problem

2012-04-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:15:51 -0500 Kevin R. Bulgrien kbulgr...@att.net wrote: I should have had you do: $ urpmq -a --whatprovides libopenssl-devel Apparently the 32bit stuff doesn't show without the -a switch. Ok: $ urpmq -a --whatprovides libopenssl-devel libopenssl-devel

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 beta 3 available for tests

2012-04-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:36:55 +0200 Anne Nicolas enn...@mageia.org wrote: Hi there Finally this beta 3 just reached the public mirrors. Thanks everyone for all the big work. DVDs, dual CD and live CDs are now available. The x86-64 GNOME live CD doesn't work on my laptop. After the splash

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Ripping to mp3

2012-06-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:37:01 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an audio CD that I want to rip to mp3. My favourite ripper is grip, but I can't get the configuration right. I have installed the fluendo mp3 codec (it seemed to

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mailing list archive insanity

2012-06-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:37:50 +0100 James Kerr j...@jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk wrote: On 28/06/2012 08:31, andre999 wrote: David Walser a écrit : Why are the archives for this mailing list broken down by day? https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/ It makes them very difficult

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Reusing ancient names ?

2012-07-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:12:00 -0400 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: I have just been digging out my old Sinclair Z88 and its manuals. Reading one titled Z88 Magic I was surprised to see the main body of the book under the heading The Cauldron, which starts with The

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Reusing ancient names ?

2012-07-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:13:46 +0200 Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com wrote: Am 13.07.2012 14:53, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:12:00 -0400 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: I have just been digging out my old Sinclair Z88 and its manuals

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia on a server?

2012-08-22 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:54:14 +0100 Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 17:40, P. Christeas wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Anne Wilson wrote: My recent experiences with enterprise distros has been less than happy and I'm

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Gmane problem

2012-10-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:40:38 +0200 DIDIER Philippe philippedid...@laposte.net wrote: Ok ! the test confirms this : Gmane doesn't update the lists and doesn't forward sent messages Actually, I just got this message from gmane, so it seems it is currently catching up on deliveries. It probably

Re: [Mageia-discuss] In Mageia 1, wine 1.4 update broke sound

2012-11-04 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 05:17:53 +0100 Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2012 00:50, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to ship wine 1.4 in the backports repository (which I don't have enabled)? Not untill backports are opened. No package

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia 3 Beta 3 checksum

2013-03-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:23:15 +0100 Juergen Harms juergen.ha...@unige.ch wrote: I have now tried to download the x86-64 DVD iso of Beta 3 from two different mirrors. Each time, the md5 checksum I obtain by doing md5sum on the result of the download is 0f65c69c8b337e86ab315ee428c37f00,

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mailing list migration: this list is closing

2013-04-08 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:48:35 +0200 Mageia Sysadmins sysad...@group.mageia.org wrote: When the Mageia project was started, it didn't have any server. Fortunatly people from zarb.org proposed to host the basic project infrastructure (mainly the website, wiki and mailing lists) until the project

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mailing list migration: this list is closing

2013-04-08 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:27:01 +0300 Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Antoine Pitrou skrev 8.4.2013 20:04: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:48:35 +0200 Mageia Sysadmins sysad...@group.mageia.org wrote: When the Mageia project was started, it didn't have any server. Fortunatly people from