Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

2008-09-22 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas. I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1]. In every meeting I go, I keep hearing that Ubuntu/Canonical does not help the GNU/Linux ecosystem by

Re: Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

2008-09-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:12 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? (``-=5F-=B4=B4)_--_Fernando _ wrote: Then a user replied back with [2]. As I was reading I noticed the ironic way the writer was using, and I would like to know if this is FUD, or if actually Ubuntu/Canonical FOSS ecosystem is as small as

Re: Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Mo, 2008-09-22 at 16:12 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas. I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1]. In every meeting I go, I keep hearing

Ubuntu install options

2008-09-22 Thread Zuliang Jiang
Hello everyone, When installing ubuntu, is it better to have options to let users choose what they want to be installed, such as only install base system (Debian has)? Thanks. PS: I tried ubuntu alternative cd, you still have to install *whole* system. Sincerely Z. Jiang

RE: ISO Testing, before 1700 UTC Thursday

2008-09-22 Thread Jean-Francois Messier
Actually, I'm interested to do this. I did not take/have the chance to do this. In short, I want to test it on my Toshiba A100-series laptop. So far, my main issues were around the graphic adapter, this Intel 915. Since I can easily swap hard disks on it, I won't loose anything. I will just kill

Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 16:01 -0700 schrieb Martin Pitt: Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]: The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Awesome! Thanks for your

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Configuration masquerading Data

2008-09-22 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Hi, first, let me tell you I perfectly agree with you that user data should be easily accessible to users. It's their data after all. Now I want to shade this a bit for what is usually called PIM data. imho, users (I mean normal non-geeky users) often only know about one way of getting to their

Glabels has a newer version athat works

2008-09-22 Thread George Farris
Hi all, Any chance of getting Glables 2.2.x into Intrepid? 2.1.x takes hours to print, yes I'm not kidding. 2.2.x fixes the problem by moving to gtk print. Cheers -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver Island University As Open Source continues to explode, and as we continue to see

Re: gspca webcams (video4linux)

2008-09-22 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:54:13 Wouter Stomp wrote: Is there any progress on this? Libv4l still isn't in either debian or ubuntu. This would be a huge regression for intrepid otherwise. Wouter. We've passed FF so I dont expect for this to be fix before the Beta release. Its a major

Re: Ubuntu install options

2008-09-22 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Zuliang e a todos. On Sunday 21 September 2008 16:21:41 Zuliang Jiang wrote: Hello everyone, When installing ubuntu, is it better to have options to let users choose what they want to be installed, such as only install base system (Debian has)? Thanks. PS: I tried

Re: Ubuntu Kernel Conribuitions

2008-09-22 Thread Pete Graner
(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas. I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1]. In every meeting I go, I keep hearing that Ubuntu/Canonical does not help

Re: How to make burning an audio CD easy again

2008-09-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:23 +0200, David Prieto wrote: Hi, This was originally raised as a Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/272902 Burning an audio CD used to be so simple that my mom had no trouble doing it. When she put a blank CD in the tray a dialogue would ask

Re: How to make burning an audio CD easy again

2008-09-22 Thread David Prieto
Why not just open Brasero by default when a blank CD is inserted? It's got a very straight-forward opening screen anyway. I see two downsides to that: -Opening a program straight away, without asking the user first, might become cumbersome. -Brasero seems to remember the last used mode, so if

Request for updating libnet-sip-perl and libio-socket-ssl-perl

2008-09-22 Thread Steffen Ullrich
Hi, I'm the author and maintainer of the Net::SIP perl module. You ship with hardy a version 0.39, which isn't the newest. In the mean time a lot of bugs got fixed so that it would be a good idea to update it. Same is true for IO::Socket::SSL, where I'm also the maintainer. The shipped version

Re: How to make burning an audio CD easy again

2008-09-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:27 +0200, David Prieto wrote: So its behaviour when a CD is inserted is different than when opened from the menu? That doesn't seem right. In fact that's also its behaviour when opened from the menu. Don't know if it's intended, but it doesn't either seem right to