Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:42 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 06:51 +0200, Gilboa Davara a écrit : I own both icewm and idesk. As far as I know, both icewm and idesk are linked against xft and should not default to core fonts. (Unless I completely misunderstanding

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 13:11 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi, It has been plain since 2003¹ our new font access standard would be fontconfig. Since then most users of the old core fonts X11 backend have migrated, but there are still a few stragglers. Unfortunately these stragglers matter.

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 06:51 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: I own both icewm and idesk. As far as I know, both icewm and idesk are linked against xft and should not default to core fonts. (Unless I completely misunderstanding something...) - Gilboa OK. Did some reading. I more-or-less

Re: F11: LVM over MD is broken. Switch back to F10?

2009-06-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:15 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: You'll also want to watch out for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506189 Good times! Uggg... - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

F11: LVM over MD is broken. Switch back to F10?

2009-06-20 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, While not strictly a -devel issue, the advise I'm seeking does raise an interesting issue. I've got a number of workstations running a combination of F9 and F10. All are using LVM over software RAID5. (DM) I've done a test upgrade on the workstation (including a partial migration of

Re: F11: LVM over MD is broken. Switch back to F10?

2009-06-20 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:34 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: Gilboa Davara wrote: Far worse, the F9 workstations are reaching EOL, and I cannot install F10 on them due to known anaconda issue (That was fixed during the F11 devel cycle) so in short, I'm in deep ... Can you upgrade them

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-14 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:05 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Too bad their hardware benchmarks do not match the development news, and too bad they also feel it necessary to continuously warn about alleged unsuitability of the Free drivers for production use (when in reality they just work as long as

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 05:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: and no, glxgears is not a benchmark! Indeed, glxgears really sucks as as a benchmark, Phoronix's benchmark suite (as imperfect as it is) is definitely more useful. I

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:20 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Gilboa Davaragilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 05:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: and no, glxgears is not a benchmark! Indeed,

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Eric Springer wrote: Especially considering how many people will use these benchmarks to make conclusions about Fedora, we should make sure it presents as best as it can. I think we should rather do an informative press campaign on

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 04:33 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 15:24 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Eric Springer wrote: Especially considering how many people will use these benchmarks to make conclusions about Fedora, we should make sure it presents as best as it can

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 19:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 04:33 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Kevin, I must admit that I didn't expect such childish reaction from someone like you. BTW, I suspect that Kevin's position has a lot to do with the response KDE 4 got

Re: [Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

2009-06-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 19:05 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 04:33 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: You don't like Phoronix' benchmark? Why? What should they have done differently? Have you ever contacted Phoronix (E.g. Using their forums) and tried to resolve these issues

Re: FC4 packages for vim7 (was: Re: Vim-7 Preview)

2006-03-17 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:15 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:59 +0100, Karsten Hopp wrote: I've prepared vim-7 prerelease packages, they are available from http://people.redhat.com/karsten/ Most prominent new features are gvim with windows in multiple tab

Re: Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading

2006-03-16 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:28 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: In nVidia/ATI's defense, unlike previous FC/non-GPL problems (udev, 4K stacks, etc) the problem is not with the closed source drivers failing to follow the latest kernel trunk. Beside releasing their code under GPL (Which is a

Rawhide 20061103 install report (x86_64).

2006-03-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
Hello all, Problem list: * During installation the grub configuration prompt did not appear. * Installation finished successfully. Reboot: 1. Kernel was not installed. 2. Grub was not configured. 3. coreutils rpm was not installed. 4. As a result, rawhide could not be rebooted. Gilboa

Re: FC5 Final Release

2006-03-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 14:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sadda Teh wrote: Is FC5 still on schedule to be release March 15th? Thanks. Yes it is. Just a general

Re: [Semi-OT] GCC 4.1 is out.

2006-03-01 Thread Gilboa Davara
Bernie Innocenti wrote: On 06/02/09 03:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes 221 heads, 2 sectors/track, 9081 cylinders I don't know where fdisk, the Linux kernel, or whatever come up with these kinds of geometries. They're almost