Coleman Kane <ck...@colemankane.org> writes: > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > > > > > Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the > > > sanctioned course of action is to reboot the system if HAL > > > or DBus need to be restarted/refreshed. > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a Free, Unix-like operating system that > > > supports a wide variety of hardware? That used to be Linux, but > > > it now fails on the second item. > > > > NetBSD comes closest, especially for CPU architectures. FreeBSD might > > beat NetBSD for peripherals. I'm not sure if OpenBSD is head of > > OpenSolaris. Darwin is another possibility. > > > > Of course, these are Unix systems and you asked for Unix-like (which > > linux technically is).
Surely, unix itself has the unix nature.... > > Haiku probably isn't unix-like enough. Is Hurd far enough along yet? > > Debian on BSD or Hurd? > > > > What about a Linux distro that doesn't use HAL or DBus. Slackware? > > I think you're confusing "all of Linux" with Ubuntu. The subject should > be "Ubuntu has become Microsoft Windows", or maybe even "GNOME has > become Microsoft Windows". Indeed--why would you expect that these applications would behave any differently in the face of a HAL or D-Bus restart when running atop any other kernel? -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
