Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-24 Thread Christos Nouskas
On 23 February 2016 at 09:43, Eric Vidal wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm the creator of Obarun > I use runit for PID1 and managing service. Repo is available for all package > builded without systemd support. It's good to see people contributing to the Arch community with interesting projects,

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-10 Thread Christos Nouskas
On 9 May 2014 00:22, Daniel Micay wrote: > You already made it quite personal by promoting FUD with gems like this: > >> systemd's team is noticeably chauvinistic Good grace, you pasted a quote I didn't make and made it appear as mine or as if I approved it, whilst I was very careful about which

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread Christos Nouskas
Do accept the fact that not everyone is content with everything systemd and just leave it at that. Thank you and bye. -- X https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=nous http://tiny.cc/linux-pf

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread Christos Nouskas
> I guess you'll be upset that Tom (one of the Arch developers) wrote > systemd-networkd. You guess wrong. > You'll probably also be upset that there's going to be > a simple systemd-console from the kmscon developer (who is an Arch user) > and a systemd-timesyncd for basic NTP clients not needin

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread Christos Nouskas
On 8 May 2014 09:43, Olivier Langlois wrote: > Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this > new systemd enhancement), systemd started to automatically clean /tmp > directory daily. This is not something that I like as I prefer to decide > when to clean up and to manuall

Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 utils

2012-11-09 Thread Christos Nouskas
On 9 November 2012 10:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > Hey guys, > I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed > xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations > about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. > Anyone g

Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] [translation] pacman 4.0.0 string freeze

2011-10-10 Thread Christos Nouskas
On 6 October 2011 06:48, Dan McGee wrote: > If you've helped us out before, or are looking to get involved, the > string freeze for the magic 4.0 release is now in effect. Dan, alpm_list_free(header) doesn't display correctly in other languages when VerbosePkgLists is enabled in pacman.conf. Plea

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Christos Nouskas
Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > Leaving all the licenses and legal issues aside, > > Q) Which is better out of the two? > > please respond purely on technical basis. A) cdrtools, period. Especially if you try to burn DVDs with long, non- ascii (read 'utf8') filenames, labels and other "weird" stuf

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Christos Nouskas
Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi All, > I am using KDE 4.3 Desktop on Archlinux 64bit. I have query regarding > Custom keyboard shortcuts. I have few extra hotkeys on my > keyboard(Microsoft Basic wired Keyboard 500). They keys have already > mapped and few of them work too. "Play" does play/pause in am

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Christos Nouskas
Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: > > the create the filesystem. With ext4 now available, is there any > > reason I shouldn't go ahead and create the filesystem as ext4? It > Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or > overwritten files i

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > packages are not the nightly builds of but ones > > like xorg-server? > > In the preceding conversations some have said they would

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ray Kohler wrote: > > Suggestions: > > > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if > > they lag behind the official ones. > > No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official >

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Arvid Picciani wrote: > http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ > > Let me know if this solution works for everyone > and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that > site or the fact that it exists > and/or if anything should be added to it. > > Contributors very welcome :) Suggestions: 1. R

Re: [arch-general] 1080p playback

2009-06-02 Thread Christos Nouskas
Paulo Santos wrote: > I have a 8800GTS, the 640MB one, and a Core 2 Duo 6600 running at > 2,4GHz. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/366852 -- X.

Re: [arch-general] Best way to clone install (package selection to another box?)

2009-04-22 Thread Christos Nouskas
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > If I want to clone my package selection to another box, is there a > > better way to do it other than just parsing the files in > > /var/cache/pacman/pkg to generate a list to feed to pacman after > > install on the second box? > > One opti

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Christos Nouskas
2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : >        In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories > (packman & > videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just > build from vlc? # pacman -S codecs -- # # # ### # # #"I find your lack o

Re: [arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

2009-04-15 Thread Christos Nouskas
Maurí­cio wrote: > Hi, > > Do you had any experience using darcs on these > small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I > should avoid? I've had complete success installing arch on Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind. The latter needed rtl8187se for the wireless card which is readily available in AUR

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

2008-03-26 Thread Christos Nouskas
Damir Perisa wrote: > i have a no-optical-drive laptop (non-macs are not able to boot from > firewire cdroms) and usually i prepare a image to put on a > memory-stick to boot from [1]. since this setting (no cdrom) are > getting more common and having a live-linux-system on a usb-key is > getting i

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-i810 obsolete?

2008-03-06 Thread Christos Nouskas
Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: > Well, I don't use the xf86-video-intel because it's buggier to me than > i810 is. Anyway, the most important reason to keep using i810 is that I > can get my laptop to suspend to RAM which i can't with the intel one. > > Please, do not remove the package. > > Just my two