Re: Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Ball
y adding a read-only rootfs to the mix? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: fedora mission

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Ball
Fedora doesn't need to care about that", with a side dose of "and go away if you don't like it". - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why does X run as root?

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Ball
f like that. I think "run X as user Xorg if you're on KMS" would be a fine F15Feature to aim for. Ubuntu's been working on it too: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
you, of course. This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Pe

Re: Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

2010-03-12 Thread Chris Ball
ng Nautilus, and easily restoring groups of files that way: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs Btrfs snapshots work extremely similarly to ZFS snapshots (each snapshot as a separate mount), so this work isn't very complicated, and would be valuable: someone should do it. It

Re: PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
edora-using world feels about updates, but that's not actually plausible. Even just the set of Fedora users who visit http://fedoraproject.org/ is significantly selection-biased already, in my opinion. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel