On 02/12/14 15:53, Armin K. wrote: > > > On 12.2.2014 5:37, Petr Ovtchenkov wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:27:50 +0100 >> "Armin K." <kre...@email.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 10.2.2014 13:04, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >>>> I thought it would be worth sharing what I have just read. Perhaps not >>>> everybody knows about it yet. >>>> >>>> 1. Debian votes for systemd >>>> >>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00338.html >>>> >>> >>> And seems that systemd has won. >>> >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00405.html >>> >> >> "Democratic" technologies in action. >> >> BTW, >> >> http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/ubuntu-to-dump-nautilus-wants-your-input/ >> > > As a GNOME Apps user, I must admit that Nautilus has seen better days. > It's understandable that they want a Qt file manager especially since > their Unity 8 is targeting Qt too and it will be running on Mir. > > I for one have switched from Nautilus to Nemo (Nautilus 3.6-ish fork). > >> <snip> >> In open source, you can’t lock people out of the code like you can in >> Windows. >> But you can make the system so complex that no one can control it at a lower >> level without being a developer with lots of time to spare. >> I think ultimately that’s what this is about. And the systemd tool stack >> will likely eventually be used for DRM and other restrictive >> technologies (just as HAL was). >> </snip> >> > > I'm really interested in the DRM part. Please tell me how HAL was used > for DRM? HAL was free software as I recall, but has become too complex > to maintain or add new features, thus U* friends were born (well, > DeviceKit first, then U* friends). > > Do you got any links that elaborate how/if HAL was used for DRM? >
Funny you should ask this. The other week, my wife was complaining to me that see could not view certain videos. It turned out that these were Flash. After further investigation, it turned out that certain Flash videos do have DRM, and that hal was/is required to decode them. I ended up build this package: https://build.opensuse.org/source/devel:openSUSE:Factory/hal-flash/libhal1-flash_0.2.0rc1.tar.gz , which is a cut down version of hal, specific for flash. See README file. See also http://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash Regards, Wayne. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
