Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Graham
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 02:55 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there 5 million packages available

Re: [support-gang] FW: Secure or Unsecure?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:27 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: For you, given our conversation last night, I think this option (play until break) is probably the best.  You will naturally play with things that others might not.  That will be good value.  Duplication isn't necessarily a

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: Good thing we reinvented the wheel here.  RPM packaging was too complete and flexible for kids or teachers (or school administrators). I had the same gripe, and then talkedemailed with Seth Vidal and RPM devs. The answer is

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality? -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing deployments? One disadvantage of doing this is

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:54 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality? -Or would including it increase the complexities of

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there 5 million packages available instead of just 5000? Money. The

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-09 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 12/08/2009 05:39 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: 802B1 hasn't really helped there as very often the cursor now freezes completely and even after waiting for 20 seconds or doing a manual re-calibration I can't get it move more than a couple of centimeters. If I understood the issues

Re: 1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

2009-12-09 Thread Seth Woodworth
Walter Bender wrote: Slightly off topic, but reading between the lines, it seems there is something more fundamentally broken here. 5000 packages. The Apple app store adds that many new apps every week it seems. Why aren't there 5 million packages available instead of just 5000? Benjamin M.

F11 for XO-1.5 Release Candidate 2

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os55 Compressed image size: 693.39mb (+3.60mb since build 54) This is the second release candidate (RC1) for the XO-1.5 F11 release! Here are some release-note-worthy bugs we know about in this RC and intend to fix soon:

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-09 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:44:42AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote: At the bottom of the page in the section marked Large Jump Logging Technique there is a script. Consider the child though ... it can be quite fun for them to press the key just to get the beep, since it works no matter what

Re: 8.2.2 Beta-1 test request

2009-12-09 Thread Yuan Chao
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: The build is '802B1' -- find it at:    http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/ I've installed 802B1 on a B4 XO-1. =Touchpad= My XO-1 has 'ALPS' touchpad. I used to met the trouble of kangaroo when my fingers

New F11 for XO-1.5 build 56

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Ball
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/f11-1.5/os56 Compressed image size: 691.46mb (-1.93mb since build 55) Description of changes in this build: * New revision of manufacturing run-in tests (#9840) Package changes since build 55: +lm_sensors-3.1.0-1.fc11.i586

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-12-09 Thread Ben T
So tonight I installed the XS 0.6 all over again but this time I didn't checkbox anything. The end result was the exact same thing. Moodle is disabled. Please see results inline. Thanks! [r...@schoolserver ~]# service pgsql-xs initdb [FAILED] [r...@schoolserver ~]# cat

Re: [Server-devel] XS + CFEngine? / Web CP?

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mike! thanks for your interest! Brief reply as I am dealing with some RL things that are keeping me away from computers. We definitely need a config mgmt scheme. We need one that is pull-based, however, where each XS (configuration client) requests updates from the configuration server. -

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

2009-12-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: I am working with 140 5th grade students who are using XOs (mostly) and netbooks with SOAS. About 50 of them are using Etoys to create projects. I am trying to find a way to share them with their teachers and each

Re: [Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- Moodle is disabled at the moment.

2009-12-09 Thread Ben T
This was on VirtualBox. I'm going to try VMware and see if I run into the same problem. -Ben On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Ben T benjt...@gmail.com wrote: So tonight I installed the XS 0.6 all over again but this time I