Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 31.01.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Davyd McColl: I don't appreciate a 78mb download every other day because one config item in the kernel config has been changed or tweaked. I think what you are really asking for are incremental packages. Additional to full packages, each server would supply a

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread nergar
Isn't Fedora working on something like this right now?? Only downloading the pieces that were updated? If yes, It would help to look at what they are doing. Markus Hitter wrote: Am 31.01.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Davyd McColl: I don't appreciate a 78mb download every other day because one

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 13:38 -0600, nergar wrote: Isn't Fedora working on something like this right now?? Only downloading the pieces that were updated? If yes, It would help to look at what they are doing. I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't updated in 3

Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-01 Thread Martin Olsson
When I upgraded my hardy laptop to intrepid I lost audio/mic in Skype: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10 Recently someone posted a comment with some steps that fixed the issue for me:

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 01/02/2009 Martin Olsson wrote: Disclaimer: Yes, Skype is proprietary and that sucks; but due to strong network effects FLOSS is going to have to find a way to deal with this app for some time. There is no point in me installing Ekiga unless it's interoperable with Skype because most

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-01 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sunday 01 February 2009 7:27:28 pm Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: On 01/02/2009 Martin Olsson wrote: Disclaimer: Yes, Skype is proprietary and that sucks; but due to strong network effects FLOSS is going to have to find a way to deal with this app for some time. There is no point in me

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread Remco
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime. Dunno if they do it like this, but I could imagine a system where the updates

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-01 Thread Darren Albers
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Darren Albers dalb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se wrote: When I upgraded my hardy laptop to intrepid I lost audio/mic in Skype: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread Davyd McColl
On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:16:25 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: If you want to avoid those sorts of updates and only get the security ones, you can disable the updates repository and just use security. That'd result in quite a lot of the updates being eliminated. There are also changelogs