On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used 4191 since it
came out, and have never had a crash. I do a rebuild from the source RPM
whenever I get a kernel update, and it just plain works. If I can play
RTCW at 1024x768 without a problem, the driver is probably
On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:43 am, Bruce Abderholden wrote:
Request I be removed from mailing list.
Email headers contain instructions. Read them. If hotmail won't show them to
you, complain to Hotmail.
Cheers; Leon
On Thursday 06 March 2003 06:34 am, Todd Lyons wrote:
Paul Dorman wrote on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:17:54AM +1300 :
Surely something's got to change. Creating megalithic multi-CD distros
is archaic and is going to get harder and harder. Lindows (Click'n'run),
Ximian (RedCarpet), and others have
On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:09 am, Palmer, Hilary wrote:
Why is a mid-March release so critical?
IIRC, whole packaging and marketing machine poised to roll then. Slots
allocated at CD press, boxes being printed and folded, manuals being printed,
freight channels being lined up for certain
On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:42 am, thomas wrote:
- - issues with the Nvidia cards with XFree and Nvidia drivers - contrary
to the reports of others, I had problems with the proprietary drivers,
started to happen only after upgrade to Cooker, wasn't broken with the
same drivers in 9.0.
Well
On Thursday 06 March 2003 08:02 am, Bruno Prior wrote:
The volume of traffic on the Cooker list since
9.1 went beta is not the sign of a healthy distro close to release.
About 800 messages a day.
I wonder what we'd have to do to ramp it up to this level two weeks earlier?
An awful lot of
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:19 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
If I may make an observation based on my experiences to date. Every single
release, as it gets closer to release time, someone makes a post like this
and then everybody piles on. You'll notice that none of the Mandrakians or
core
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:02 pm, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
glx 3D acceleration doesn't work remotely, or to be honest what is not
work remotely is DRI. To get glx working remotely you need Indirect
Rendering, available for instance on old Utah GLX (works only on XF 3.3.6),
which allows to
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:47 am, Vox wrote:
This time Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes daring and writes:
I've not been able to use Mandrake since 9.0. I've been hoping that the
PDC20276 problems would be fixed with 9.1, but from the looks of the
release candidates and betas it
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:53 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
Bug #1859: For some unexplainable reason MandrakeSoft is not
providing users with KDE screensavers beyond its basic one. Why?
Why didn't anyone ask Club users? (most probably didn't vote for
KDE-Artwork since you weren't suppose to need
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:59 pm, Jan Ciger wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:32, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Jan Ciger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am pretty much green here, but I have to agree - let's push the
release date few days. There are bugs, which are pretty bad/annoying
and will
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:47 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
For install problems, many of them are duplicate: some we set as
duplicate, some we ignore; many don't provide enough information,
some of them we ask info some we ignore because we suppose it
would cost too much time to get the
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:03 am, N Smethurst wrote:
Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 16:22, Austin a écrit :
It's because 90% of the bug reporters ONLY install linux from ISO's.
We should teach them about urpmi and/or network installs.
A HOWTO-be-mandrake-bug-tester-without-annoying-everyone would be
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:48 am, Austin wrote:
On 2003.03.06 11:38 Greg Meyer wrote:
I would volunteer to do it, or at least help.
Cool. If you post a draft somewhere (an incomplete one even), you're
bound to get help/suggestions/corrections. If you need www space just
ask me.
Seconded!
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:18 am, Austin wrote:
Maybe it's time for a beta-testing/cooker howto?
Technical as well as etiquette?
That's three proposals along those lines so far.
Cheers; Leon
On Friday 07 March 2003 07:24 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
If you or anyone else would like to help out, would you
please vote on my bug about this:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1859
Done.
Cheers; Leon
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:48 am, Austin wrote:
On 2003.03.06 11:38 Greg Meyer wrote:
I would volunteer to do it, or at least help.
Cool. If you post a draft somewhere (an incomplete one even), you're
bound to get
On Friday 07 March 2003 11:08 am, George Mitchell wrote:
Andi, there is a solution to this problem. That is to maintain a stable
version of cooker. Do the actual work of upgrading and fixing various
components offline, and merge them into the stable cooker tree only when
they have been
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:40 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
Do you honestly think one of the largest
firms in the industry (who is now using our product) would like it if we
told them We'll fix your bug when we get enough votes.
Yes. They'd institute a twice-daily bug-voting-for rota among their
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:47 pm, Andi Payn wrote:
I'm not sure whether or not the 3-distro approach is important to the
strengths of Debian, but I suspect that it's part of their weaknesses--in
particular, the fact that their stable releases are usually far behind most
other distros (not just
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:25 pm, Robert L Martin wrote:
This means that the biggest market for Linux will also A Not care
about free -(L,G)
OK, I gues sthat means we should be knocking on their doors politely and
persistently, until we get some answers we're happy with. Does anyone on this
On Monday 10 March 2003 12:53 am, George Mitchell wrote:
Robert L Martin wrote:
Problems with ATI and nVidea products.
And the real irony here of course is that ATI chipsets are NOT closed
source.
Er, AFAIK, they are, but OSS X drivers have been written anyway. There are
also OSS X drivers
On Monday 10 March 2003 01:22 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
I run 2.4.19-24mdk with the 2960 drivers on my cooker box, never had a
lockup.
Using 2.4.21pre4-1mdk with the 4191 drivers on a 9.0 box (nForce2 mobo), no
worries.
Cheers; Leon
On Monday 10 March 2003 03:18 am, Pixel wrote:
Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just saw this on mandrakeclub forum,
**
Just installed 9.1 and have a problem with graphics loading. Getting this
message: (ww) s3:no matching Device section for instance (BusID
PCI:9:23:0) found. Says
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:22 am, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
That's not quite true, since I use double-click myself. Not because I
don't know better (I've been running Linux for the past ten years), but
because of the touchpad on my laptop. The tap is too sentitive, and
often when I move my
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:35 am, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
Gnome is a good environment for experienced Linux people, but it lacks a
lot of polish for people coming from the Windows world.
http://www.gnome.pl/
Celem grupy GNOME PL jest cakowite spolszczenie rodowiska
GNOME i
On Monday 10 March 2003 12:02 pm, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Sun Mar 09 22:07 -0500, Austin wrote:
Well, at the very least, it's a great reason to switch to gnome. :-)
Let's go for broke with this thread and bring emacs vs. vi, postfix vs.
qmail, and Java vs. anything (anybody else have ideas?)
On Monday 10 March 2003 12:39 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
But 95% of the desktop market *IS* running windows. It's one thing to
train 40% of the people who use Linux. It's another thing to train 95%
of the people who use computers. Think about it.
I agree that single click is better once you get
On Monday 10 March 2003 03:04 pm, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
Le lun 10/03/2003 à 03:48, Brent Hasty a écrit :
On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:00 pm, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
is there a way to set in KDE the mouse to select an object after hovering
over it with the pointer for X duration?
I never
On Monday 10 March 2003 09:39 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
Now we just need to have a replacement for kio_smb, which smbmount's
instead of smbclient's (which could get things like locking between
windows and linux clients etc working).
Interestingly, smbclient started life as a testbed program.
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:17 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Yes. I have to say that I've *never* seen any Windows user using
single-click.
About half of the power-users I know do. But they also have the brains to go
and find it if they want it. Practically no, er, powerless users use it.
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:37 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
After install a fresh cooker from this morning (11/3/2003), [...]
How says that linux is not ready for the desktop?
By saying it yesterday. (-:
Cheers; Leon
Dunno if this is still in there for 9.1, but I just did a 9.0 install and it
elected to fsck the disks. While it was doing this the display froze (no
traffic lights or help even, just the basic frames) and the disks hammered,
would be very distressing for a newbie.
Can I most strongly
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 04:02 am, Brent Hasty wrote:
for us users out hear trying to flee from corel wordperfect since thier
office 2000 for linux / microshaft biout incident, we could really use in
OpenOffice needs a legal template/autopilot. And support for opening *.wpd
files.
Too late
On Thursday 13 March 2003 08:26 pm, Jason Straight wrote:
Yeah, I bet the same people who stopped buying French products and renamed
them didn't stop buying gasoline or oil yet.
...or buy it from us Aussies instead. (-:
`Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.' Wise words.
On Friday 14 March 2003 03:56 am, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
1) I don't think that American people that would buy Mandrake won't buy it
now, because all the American not Windows user were antipatriotic before.
If you are a good American, you must use windows, musn't you?
No. It's a risk to
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:17 am, Andi Payn wrote:
Mandrake is not a French company, but a freedom company!
Good point.
and I am Quebecois ;-)
Well, Quebecois sounds french enough for me, you frenchy person you.
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper!
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 02:58 am, Oden Eriksson wrote:
I got hit by this bug/feature (twice) when installing cooker, migrating
stuff from an old disk to a new disk and then rolled back to 9.0
This means you cannot save stuff on hard drives formatted on 9.1, and use
the hard drive on
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:26 am, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
Ainsi parlait Austin :
Telling someone on dialup: just install glibc-devel, XFree86-devel, and
kernel-source... is a big deal.
Not any more than installing the rest of the system.
It is if they have to fetch it down a modem.
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:58 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
Erm, kernel 13mdk was originally released on 7th March, how can it have
fixed a vuln discovered this morning?
Discovered? Or first widely announced?
Cheers; Leon
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 04:16 pm, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Narfi Stefansson wrote:
I believe that Steffen is right that mjpegtools was compiled without
MMX in the 9.0 rpms.
When I compile for i586 and athlon side by side and I enable MMX for
both, I only get a maximum
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 05:39 pm, Chad wrote:
Then simply type some thing along the lines of urpms (urpmi for SRPMS)
urpms flags=--mach=k6-2 -o3 kde-full
urpms would then sort out the dependencies required for a full install of
kde the kde packages build them in the correct order with the
On Thursday 20 March 2003 01:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong here but couldn't urpmi.update -a just use rsync
to grab the hdlist.
Deem yourself corrected. The hdlist is re-sorted and re-compressed from
scratch each time it changes. This does not make for a happy rsync
On Friday 21 March 2003 12:01 am, Jan Ciger wrote:
It is a free software, but having ten
incompatible versions of XFree or ten versions with ten different fatal
bugs is not a nice outlook
XFree86 and XFreer86?
As I understand it, the pace (or lack of it) of incorporation of existing
patches
On Friday 21 March 2003 03:04 am, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
you forget to check the architecture.
and, dosbox need libcurses5 to work, and to be compiled.
the configure doesn't check, but, on the rpm I wanted to submit ( but you
were faster ) , I wasn't able to compile it without. Here is the
Link from here...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2225212
...to here...
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3090
Cheers; Leon
On Saturday 22 March 2003 07:51 pm, Michael Scherer wrote:
Entête en cours de reécriture, merci de patienter en lisant la réponse au
mail de Leon Brooks, à Samedi 22 Mars 2003 12:51
On Friday 21 March 2003 03:04 am, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
you forget to check the architecture.
and, dosbox
redbox.cz doesn't respond very much, ibiblio.org is giving 10kB/s from Oz,
klid.dk not much better... any other suggestions?
Does anyone have a private mirror that they could tell me about off-list that
could handle being sucked on by a single 2Mb pipe to hurry the ISOs onto a
WAIX (free local
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 08:42 pm, Adam Williamson wrote:
Erm, where exactly is the dictatorship that makes it illegal for women
to be on top during sex? And why isn't America invading it yet? =)
They're too busy planning to invade Australia for explicitly permitting
reverse-engineering, for
On Thursday 27 March 2003 00:02, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Austin's Audio Workstation Howto has been pubished
(http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html), and it would
I'd like to congratulate Austin for the nice work on the
multimedia
On Thursday 27 March 2003 03:45, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
Le Mercredi 26 Mars 2003 20:25, Duncan a écrit :
Of course, getting all the various urpm* guide sites to mention it too
would be nice, but since most of them are user sites...
www.urpmi.org aims to be the definitive reference however.
On Thursday 27 March 2003 14:57, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
On Thursday 27 March 2003 06:47, Leon Brooks wrote:
http://www.uid0.sk/zyzstar/?creox
Creox is a real-time sound processor. [...]
I'm on to it, rpm ready, just gotta test it before uploading to contrib
Faster than a speeding
On Thursday 27 March 2003 23:19, Oden Eriksson wrote:
From freshmeat:
Server optimized Linux 0.2 (SoL-desktop)
About: SoL (Server optimized Linux) [...] was built from the original
source packages and is optimized for heavy-duty server work. [...]
Changes: This version includes GNOME 1.4
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
As it seems the correct moment:
- gpg-agent support
- mdadm support
- synaptic driver
- easy.urpmi better integration
- mirror mess sanitization
* One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should
have the
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
As it seems the correct moment:
...oh, and support for usbnet as a network install medium, so you can plug a
machine with no LAN card into another Mandrake box with a USB host-to-host
cable (about AUD$100 retail, not a brainless A-to-A
On Saturday 29 March 2003 20:28, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
* One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should
have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM
to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled
On Sunday 30 March 2003 00:06, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
We need an access killer.
I think something based on true objectness, like Python or Ruby, would prove
to have the flexibility and consistency that MS-Access lacks.
Most of the OOo tools do *more* than their corresponding MS-Office
On Saturday 29 March 2003 23:42, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
A lot of people who want to migrate to Linux told me that the replacement
of MS-access was the last obstacle.
Others are stuck on MS-Publisher. But OOWriter has started to pick up a lot of
Publisher features, like linkable frames.
All
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
whats wrong with dosemu?
Requires proprietary C compiler to build.
Also, DosBox promises to be a little less savage on the CPU useage.
Cheers; Leon
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:31, Adam Williamson wrote:
Don't start crying gentoo!, because if you get speed boosts via
gentoo it's generally by using very aggressive compilation options,
not by targetting your own processor architecture.
And there is a problem with that? As in, would your
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:00, Edward Tandi wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:46, webudo2 wrote:
A bugfree released MDK 9.2
Hooray! I'll vote for that. What about all those RPM requests in
Ma[n]drakeClub? We should have all of them too!
Does anyone else see the irony in this? (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:19, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 04:21, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:31, Adam Williamson wrote:
Don't start crying gentoo!, because if you get speed boosts via
gentoo it's generally by using very aggressive compilation options
On Sunday 30 March 2003 16:58, Michael Scherer wrote:
Since dosemu without a OS image is useless, they dropped it.
That's a false assumption if ever I've seen one. Nothing wrong with installing
your own copy of MS-DOS 6.22 under DOSEMU.
Cheers; Leon
On Monday 31 March 2003 05:49, Toran Korshnah wrote:
I read the 9.2 thread and I begin to wonder if 9.1 is a good release.
Are there really so many bugs?
Not so far. Most of the people reporting on my LUG list are delighted with it.
Specifically, a few of them are crowing about stuff that was
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3140
Cheers; Leon
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:01, Steffen Barszus wrote:
*No software is bug free*
I wouldn't be so sure. Microsoft ship you lots of bugs for free with every
copy of Windows.
Cheers; Leon
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 20:20, Steffen Barszus wrote:
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 13:57, Leon Brooks wrote:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3140
I could try to figure out this usb-isdn thingy.
Better still, make it so that every device at least has somewhere to go.
Search PCI
On Friday 04 April 2003 05:35, B Lauber wrote:
I just wanted to reiterate what someone else posted. mdkkdm worked fine
for me for about a day, but I have not had any reboot options since (it's
been about 5 days now). The only way I can reboot my system is through
console functions or after
Please note that this request is addressed ONLY to the MandrakeSoft people,
and is NOT an invitation to drown the list in offtopic chatter.
An American on another list spoke of cancelling his Mandrake orders based on
the French not supporting America with the war in Iraq. The question I asked
I want to upgrade a 9.0 machine that has _no_ removable media. I hypothesise
that I should be able to somehow boot network.img through LILO. If this is
possible, can someone please tell me how?
If it is not, can I install the newer kernel and modules and start the
Mandrake installer manually
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:17, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
urpmi mysource.src.rpm will install dependencies to build the src,
you have to install manually the src.rpm after or before.
I think what Buchan was suggesting (and I'd like this too) is to be able
to type something like this:
urpmi
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:39, Gary L. Greene wrote:
This bug is about the removal of a (albet not
recognized officiailly) democratic nation's flag from the
distribution. While this is an issue to the communist Chinese
government, I loath the idea of not supporting a nation's
people that have
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:15, Robert L Martin wrote:
I will not continue this conversation any further, if it's
wished. However, I want the input of the cooker community about
this.
-
-
Until there is evidence that the
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:41, Tibor Pittich wrote:
3)Support for floppyconfig (like Knoppix)
i don't know what is this. nowhere i use floppy ;)
Able to alter configuration during boot with floppy/USB-thumb/residue on
hard disk/other writeable medium.
Cheers; Leon
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:34, Greg Meyer wrote:
I'd like to get some clarity on what the official differences are
between a beta release and a release candidate. Also, what is the
difference between a freeze and a deep-freeze and how do those terms
relate to beta vs. rc?
I interpret the terms
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:41, scott wrote:
Mandrake also doesn't support MNG animations
on the bootsplash, like SuSE does.
And Xandros. It's very pretty. If it can be done easily, let's do it now
before the next release cycle gets underway!
Cheers; Leon
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:40, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003, 14:13:37 Uhr MET, schrieb christopher
neitzert:
After scrolling the archives to determine why my favorite screen
saver was not in MDK9.1 I discover this little gem.
If Chistopher wants it back, he can try here:
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:11, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
hehe, thx, my first name is Per Øyvind, last name is Karlsen:)
it's a double name, both Per or Øyvind is a name, but I'm named Per
Øyvind
Kind of like Billy Joe Cartwright or my own youngest daughter, Anne-Rose
Brooks?
We write an
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:44, Charles Shirley wrote:
Such a shame... Now how will I waste my spare time?
With the reincarnation, whatever it gets called. I have kept out a copy
of the 1.18 SRPM and the same thing (apparently) from Debian at
http://www.arach.net.au/~brooks/clone/
Cheers; Leon
Quoting:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2424
URPMI -- the Mandrake package management system and dependency
solver -- has been parallelized to allow automated software
updating of all nodes simultaneously.
Does this mean the ability to broadcast
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:02, Adam Williamson wrote:
It's the urpmi --parallel functionality that's being referred to, I
think. That's been around for a while. Read the manpage...
Ooh! Shiny! (-:
However, it doesn't explain very much about setting up the URPMI
slaves. Do you just give the master
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:38, Oden Eriksson wrote:
onsdagen den 25 juni 2003 14.22 skrev Buchan Milne:
Mandrake is mentioned on the linux page at novell, and they also
have a poll, thus far Redhat (~40%), Debian (~20%), SuSE(~10%),
Mandrake(~10%) (IIRC).
Aha, I just noticed the poll. Then i
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:47, Adam Williamson wrote:
Leon Brooks wrote:
onsdagen den 25 juni 2003 14.22 skrev Buchan Milne:
Mandrake is mentioned on the linux page at novell, and they
also have a poll, thus far Redhat (~40%), Debian (~20%),
SuSE(~10%), Mandrake(~10%) (IIRC).
Debian Gentoo
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 06:38, Austin wrote:
On 2003.06.25 18:10, Brook Humphrey wrote:
really I would not include gentoo in that yet. The barrier to entry
is to high. I did try it and was utterly unimpressed. Mandrake is
much better.
They are experiencing a surge is users right now. Not sure
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:25, Brook Humphrey wrote:
The reason gentoo runs
faster is that you don't have anywere near the amount of options
available at first. If you add those and get your system to the same
level of functionality and usability it will run just as slow. By the
same token if you
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:15, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
I have just been to a MS marketing seesion for their Windows Server
2003 and one of the few key selling points there is the volume
shadowing feature. This is a way to find deleted files, or older
versions of files (eg if you accidentially
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/robovasion/webpage/welcome.html
RoboVasion is a Real Time Strategie game along the lines of
other popular Real Time Strategie games. It will be based on
the GPLed Stratagus Engine (formaly known as Freecraft) and
feature around five
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:03, Austin wrote:
I would like to upgrade the amaya package.
To improve the audio handling? (-:
Does anyone care if I drop the lesstif version?
Not I!
Cheer; Leon
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:49, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote:
I just wanted to say congrats on getting HP to distribute MDK 9.1 on
new systems we're selling. Now we have the best distro on the best
hardware... (j/k on the second part).
Thanks, Cory, this sort of encouragement is rare
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 02:02, Greg Meyer wrote:
if it is going to be added as a feature that every user
can use, it has to be even simpler than that. Perhaps the time will
come when everything required is in the kernel and everything else
can be auto-detected.
Or... MPD-Drake? HydraDrake?
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:23, David Walser wrote:
MS-shared-source doesn't allow
you to recompile the code, so there's no way to be sure the code they
hand you is what's actually behind the binaries you're running.
You also have to be one of the elite few to even see most of it.
Cheers; Leon
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:21, Olof Bjarnason wrote:
Anyway, since linux *can* do this, and Mandrake specifically
announces itself as being user-friendly etc., it should, don't you
agree?
Yes.
A lot of IDE drives these days (especially SATA, but not limited to) are
hot-swappable in practice if
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:28, Adam Williamson wrote:
Who gives a toss what Windows does? I thought we wanted to be BETTER
than Windows? You can't just say well, if Windows doesn't do it, we
don't have to - that's not an attitude that gets anyone anywhere.
Good point, always to be remembered.
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:06, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:02, Warly wrote:
I add a todo in the wiki, to summarize in one page currently what
makes people buzy.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ToDo
This is an *excellent* idea and I hope the other devs pick up
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:59, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
Mandrake should not autoconfigure your drive after install ( i.e add
a mount ) because :
1°/ you may want to give your own mount point name
2°/ which name to choose ?
Should be a configuration option:
(*) make a device
( ) make (a)
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:49, Steffen Barszus wrote:
3) you may want to have a harddisk temporary used and you don't need
to have the fstab and /mnt/ cluttered for that. I think it is
perfectly fine how it is currently.
Yeah, hadn't considered that. Add this item, greyed out unless a
mount-point
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:58, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
Is there a way to get Mandrake Update to automatically check for
updates and then display a notification or send a mail/message to
tell me.
what about
urpmi --auto-select --test
I have a better idea. It is a useful property of gzip and
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:49, Ben Reser wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:43:00PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
Have you looked at the descriptions file which is present on update
sources, and saved in /var/lib/urpmi for update sources?
Or for that matter the list files.
urpmi.update already
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:01, Buchan Milne wrote:
I think, going back to it, the users would prefer some tool that is
more interactive.
Or has that option.
My local (WAIX-visible) Mandrake update mirror broke for circa a day and
for a day after that urpmi --auto-select wanted to remove
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:47, Jim C wrote:
Anybody out there?
Nobody but us trolls.
Thanks for knocking in lowercase... (-:
OnTopic: has anyone packaged GINF? No, that's not a typoe:
http://www.symonds.net/~deep/stuff/vtu/ginf/
Cheers; Leon
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