Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread Gabor Szabo
I usually don't think much of the big electronic networks when it comes to buying a computer but yesterday why flipping through the week-end papers I pleasantly surprised that Shekem Electric is selling Acer desktops with Linux installed.

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread Boaz Rymland
I can add that when searching for Linux powered laptops here I found that several stores (not the big elec. chains stores IIRC) sell linux powered Acer laptops. These laptops, and I suspect that the desktop as well, have Linpus on them. They also, probably, contain some binary drivers from

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-31 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote: I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network, etc. to work without a policy kit developed by GUI people (I understand it comes from Gnome). ... However, you

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Cute, but no prices there... On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: I usually don't think much of the big electronic networks when it comes to buying a computer but yesterday why flipping through the week-end papers I pleasantly surprised that Shekem Electric is

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread sara fink
I don't know these models, but I have a suggestion. Go to the shop with a bootable disk on key of your favorite linux, boot, save the lspci and then check at home for drivers. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: I usually don't think much of the big electronic

Re: Hebrew support on Android

2009-10-31 Thread Shay Ohayon
http://iandroid.co.il/archives/497 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:06 PM, cyril scetbon cscet...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that I must have a version with root access which I haven't. What's the way to get it ? Is there an english documentation about it 2009/10/30 Shay Ohayon s...@shayohayon.net

Re: Hebrew support on Android

2009-10-31 Thread cyril scetbon
It seems that I must have a version with root access which I haven't. What's the way to get it ? Is there an english documentation about it 2009/10/30 Shay Ohayon s...@shayohayon.net http://iandroid.co.il/archives/485 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Cyril Scetbon cyril.scet...@free.fr

Re: Hebrew support on Android

2009-10-31 Thread cyril scetbon
Could you paste it here in English ? Will it work with a Samsung Galaxy as it said it works with htc dream and G1 ? thanks 2009/10/31 Shay Ohayon s...@shayohayon.net http://iandroid.co.il/archives/497 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:06 PM, cyril scetbon cscet...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that I

Re: Hebrew support on Android

2009-10-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
cyril scetbon wrote: Could you paste it here in English ? Will it work with a Samsung Galaxy as it said it works with htc dream and G1 ? I have had a Galaxy from Cellcom for a little while (for comparative analysis - http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=726), and did not manage to root it (though I

Re: Shekem Electric selling desktops with Linux

2009-10-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
I don't know these models, but I have a suggestion. Go to the shop with a bootable disk on key of your favorite linux, boot, save the lspci  and then check at home for drivers. Better suggestion: ask in the shop about Linux. If the don't hear people asking about Linux, of course they will

Re: how to disable PolicyKit?

2009-10-31 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 31 בOctober 2009 16:40:47 Diego Iastrubni wrote: On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote: I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network, etc. to work without a policy kit developed by