Re: [sabayon-dev] Microsoft wants to acquire GitHub - time to move?

2018-06-03 Thread Ben Roberts
Unless Microsoft announce and changes to terms of service, licensing or pricing, there's no need for any knee-jerk reactions to move. Github has always been privately owned, this news doesn't change the fundamental nature of github, and Microsoft will suffer enormous backlash from the development

Re: [sabayon-dev] U2F rules?

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Roberts
+1 I already have yubikey files manually added to my box On 6 Sep 2017 16:29, "Jerrod Frost" wrote: > would it be bad to go ahead and add udev rules for U2F gear? > > https://github.com/Yubico/libu2f-host/blob/master/70-u2f.rules > > I personally use yubikeys for stuff.

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

2017-05-01 Thread Ben Roberts
4:09 PM, KJS <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wasn't libav 11.9 released last month? > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Ben Roberts <opti...@sabayonlinux.org> > wrote: > >> Let's bear in mind the problem is not just that there are packages that >> don't have d

Re: [sabayon-dev] idea: switching back to ffmpeg

2017-05-01 Thread Ben Roberts
Let's bear in mind the problem is not just that there are packages that don't have direct support for libav. The problem is also partly that there is not a libav release that provides all the same component library versions that are available in ffmpeg; libav is definitively behind ffmpeg at the

[sabayon-dev] Gnome3/lightdm/fast-user-switching

2016-10-05 Thread Ben Roberts
Raising on the mailing list because I can't check this for myself at the moment. Jarth in #sabayon reported fast-user switching not working in Gnome 3 when using lightdm as the login manager, but confirmed working OK when switching to gdm instead. It failed with the following error reported in

Re: [sabayon-dev] Monthly

2016-10-04 Thread Ben Roberts
+1 on this. IMHO stable and nightly would best fit their intended purpose, and be consistent with naming used by other software projects. On 5 Oct 2016 6:07 am, "André Jaenisch" wrote: > What about Rolling (fka Daily) and ... um ... however distros like Mint > and