--- Galileo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O Ouch
There is no need for it now since the LG released
updates for their
firmware and procedure how to fix the dead drives.
It would be nice if Mandrake would release updated
iso-s for
club members or a howto on how to do it ourselves.
btw does this
The LSB project www.linuxbase.org aims to do exactly
that. This compatibility is what the LSB option during
Mandrake install is for. However it has a very long
way to go.
In order to have these universal RPMs:
- Linux needs to standardise on a certain set of
libraries. LSB has mostly achieved
--- FACORAT Fabrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
put them at the end after dm start
Wouldn't work, because dm service just calls prefdm
with a fork, so it's effectively executing X and KDE
and everything else in parallel. As I've said, this
makes X start veeery slowly. When I remove the fork,
the
--- Jos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.stack.nl/~josh/Mandrake
Hello Jos!
I think you have an excellent page there.
Here are some thinkings:
- Harddrake should *not* be disabled by default. If
one changes some piece of hardware (they'll probably
do that while their system is off :)
Hello,
I agree with most of your points.
--- Jos Hulzink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Vedran Ljubovic wrote:
- I don't think parallelizing helps on computers
with
a single CPU that doesn't support hyperthreading.
Sure
Not true I think... Think about initializing
--- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, just accept the username and password, and show
some moving
graphics until you have authenticated the user.
Ever noticed how long it takes to tell you your
password is wrong on
first start?
Couldn't we just hack the bootsplash so that it
--- John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I was on dial up (DSL now), but I have a lan,
and the server shares the
inet connection, and I need NFS enabled by default.
Perhaps the installer/control panel should ask
whether you want NFS
(server/client), or not at all.
Yes, but you had
--- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where Errata points to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3
which has quite comprehensive coverage of the issue.
That's a great page! Very informative.
Somehow you missed my submission. I have a GCE-8400B
CD-RW that works fine. Possibly it
--- Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For Stephane : I disagree there are a lot of bugs in
the distro. The
fact that the updates are big in size does not mean
there are a lot of
bugs. You may correct one little bug in KDe and
anyway have to release
100MB of updated rpm.
There is
Hi,
Recently there were some articles on Slashdot
proposing alternative boot procedures. Most of them
advocate parallelizing of SysV-init tasks. Motivated
by these I've decided to make a detailed analysis of
boot procedure and see how can I make it faster.
I have an oldish PC that can run most
--- [zeb] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First install of 9.2 DE final.
mdkkdm is not installed and kdm is running instead.
Hey! I though that was a feature!!!
lol
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--- Michael Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Do we need to run depmod if no new modules are
installed (many ways to check)?
i think it use -A switch and so is runned only if
it should.
Well if there are new modules it takes almost 30
seconds, without them it's 4 seconds consistently.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't even own a network card. Therefore I
probably
don't need sshd at all.
Isn't xinetd startup of ssh disabled by default, in
favour of starting as
a daemon?
Hm you're right. It seems that xinetd is used for fam.
- While I'm at it, I also don't need
--- Élie Charest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le 24 Octobre 2003 11:04, Guillaume Cottenceau a
écrit :
Régis Wira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mine has a 1.01 firmware
Very interesting then.
Listing all firmware versions needed will be long
though :/.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well if you haven't seen it a loot of others have.
But that doesn't help fix it. Mandrakesoft has
problems reproducing it too
(and 'just install a package' isn't a reproducible
test case), so it's
difficult for them to solve it.
Hope this helps: steps to
I have here a HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B CD-RW. MB is a
taiwanese (i think Chaintech) with VIA KT-266. RC2
installed fine, didn't have time to try 9.2 final
though, I'll probably do it over the weekend and let
you know. How do I find the firmware version?
--- Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No offense, but
there already is a
distribution (several) like this, why do we want to
create another one?
They are not free (as in freedom)
Ok, as I've said in the original mail, it's a
community decision and if any of my ideas is accepted,
I'll be
I just hope that others don't find this little
discussion of ours boring. if you do, please yell :)
--- illogic-al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a typical windows user. mdklinux is not
windows and users installing
linux know that (at least most of them do).
It's the argument of
Hello list,
I wasn't much involved in Mandrake development until
now (except translation), but I hope that that will
change. First I must say that, as a long time Mandrake
user, I very much appreciate the fine work done by
Mandrake developers, especially from a technical point
of view. However,
Hi,
Thank you all for your responses! This thread is much
more than I've expected. These are a few
clarifications, cause I see that there are already
some ideas better then what I originally had.
--- Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vedran Ljubovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
--- illogic-al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you suggest sticking a screenshot in the rpm?
Further down you say certain people have no business
installing an OS.
Well by extension of that logic they wouldn't have
gotten to the installation
point so this doesn't need to be worried about. I
--- Pierre Jarillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes your idea is very good and ergonomic. As GC
said, There would take very
much diskspace, especially screenshots!
To avoid this, it could be useful to create a
database hosted by Mandrake:
[...]
That's an excellent idea! I'd like to
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