Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-11 Thread magic
I would like to see Cyrus imap moved from contrib to main. Cheers! S

[Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Pierre Jarillon
As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1. The memory test is a stand alone OS it could be set up as rescue mode. See http://www.memtest86.com/ When a computer has

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Scherer
On Monday 02 June 2003 15:00, Pierre Jarillon wrote: As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1. The memory test is a stand alone OS it could be set up as rescue

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Jarillon wrote: As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1. The memory test is a stand alone OS it could be

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scherer wrote: IIRC, memtest86 is a very long test. It would be more intersting to propose a floppy image of it, and instruction on how to test the system, in case of problem, in the documentation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9.1]$ ls

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Lundi 2 Juin 2003 15:49, Buchan Milne a écrit : As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1. See http://www.memtest86.com/ Michael said it is very

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Simon Oosthoek
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:22:45PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 15:00, Pierre Jarillon wrote: As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Thibaut Fernagut
[SNIP] But what disk test? Most disk tests are provided by the manufacturer, some only work in DOS (except IBM DFT). In case of defective tracks a warning should be given. What about hdparm ? hdparm -Tt or is that not a real test ? During a normal installation, it would be good

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Lundi 2 Juin 2003 23:02, Thibaut Fernagut a écrit : In case of defective tracks a warning should be given. What about hdparm ? hdparm -Tt or is that not a real test ? -Tt is only to test the speed. Not to search for defective tracks. bonnie++ is far a more accurate measurement of the

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-06-03 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Montag, 2. Juni 2003, 15:00:21 Uhr MET, schrieb Pierre Jarillon: As I found more and more hardware problems which are describe as software (Mandrake) problems, it would be great to include a memory test and a hard disk test in Mdk9.2 CD1. The memory test is a stand alone OS it could be

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:01:43PM +0200 : The biggest issue is hardware, and the only way that is going to improve is if more people test the Betas, since hardware/kernel fixes should not be made in RCs. But, for this to

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Scherer
Entête en cours de reécriture, merci de patienter en lisant la réponse au mail de Todd Lyons, à Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 21:18 Buchan Milne wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:01:43PM +0200 : The biggest issue is hardware, and the only way that is going to improve is if more people test the Betas,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Teletchéa Stéphane
Le mar 01/04/2003 à 00:14, J.A. Magallon a écrit : 1 - a laptop, except for the screen size and resolution witch is sometimes particular(1400*1200) for example must run Mdk's normal i586. It's not a different architecture. I have realized this just as I type. Think of a lab/university admin that

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: But the installer has to be reasonably finished before the rc phase starts. In my opinion, far too many features were being actively developed during the beta period: for

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2 - joystick configuration

2003-04-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Elliott Martin wrote: seeing the wishlist flyby got me thinking... ...it would be really cool if there were a drak tool for joystick configuration... anyway, it's just an idea! Agreed, actually, draksound may be best to handle some of this,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:34, Buchan Milne wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I fail to see why a laptop needs vastly different software to a dekstop machine. Does Apple have a laptop version of OS X? Yes Please show me where I can buy it (and I don't mean

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:35, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 02:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Lundi 31 Mars 2003 01:27, Edward Tandi a écrit : But I do personally think that the quality is beginning to suffer. I think Mandrake should be releasing less frequently and

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:02, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 01:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: But the installer has to be reasonably finished before the rc phase starts. In my opinion, far too many features were

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2 - joystick configuration

2003-04-01 Thread George Mitchell
Elliott Martin wrote: seeing the wishlist flyby got me thinking... ...it would be really cool if there were a drak tool for joystick configuration... anyway, it's just an idea! -elliott Long overdue! For USB joysticks it should be easy. The problem is with gameport joysticks. I think

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Warly
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla This also requires discipline from testers. Installer problems cannot be worked on substantially after RCs. Kernel/hardware

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Warly
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. Haven't a DVD burner to try, but is anything more than k3b needed? Free version of cdrecord can't write DVDs (AFAIK), and k3b does not know about growisofs. You would also have to enter the size of the DVD in minutes :-(. cdbakeover is no

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warly wrote: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. Haven't a DVD burner to try, but is anything more than k3b needed? Free version of cdrecord can't write DVDs (AFAIK), and k3b does not know about growisofs. You would also have to enter the

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Mardi 1 Avril 2003 19:41, Warly a écrit : Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla This also requires discipline from testers. Installer problems cannot be worked on

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-04-01 Thread Daouda LO
Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As it seems the correct moment: - gpg-agent support - mdadm support - synaptic driver - easy.urpmi better integration - mirror mess sanitization * One-click/one-command

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2 - joystick configuration

2003-04-01 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 18:08 schrieb George Mitchell: Elliott Martin wrote: seeing the wishlist flyby got me thinking... ...it would be really cool if there were a drak tool for joystick configuration... anyway, it's just an idea! -elliott Long overdue! For USB joysticks it

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Lundi 31 Mars 2003 01:27, Edward Tandi a écrit : But I do personally think that the quality is beginning to suffer. I think Mandrake should be releasing less frequently and have a longer stability/testing/fixing period. If

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: perhaps the time has come to start looking at a slower release cycle, and/or niche releases ie laptop, MNF Multimedia etc. I fail to see why a laptop needs vastly

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread E . Fernandez
Quoting Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: of If you want to ensure your hardware works, you *must* test beta1. Buchan Agree. I posted a similar message just after the final release. Maybe the more efficient way is to : - rename the beta to RC directly, or just use 1 beta. Psychologically, a

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:01, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: perhaps the time has come to start looking at a slower release cycle, and/or niche releases ie laptop, MNF

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - rename the beta to RC directly, or just use 1 beta. Psychologically, a lot of people try only the latest RC, thinking that bugs will be found by the other people... Well, IMHO,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Scherer
- fake that the final release date is actually 1 or 2 weeks before the real release date, since most of the bugs arrive at the last minute, so that it leaves more time to correct last minute bugs. This would be lying, no ? I don't think this is very honest... But I agree that something

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread E . Fernandez
Quoting Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, IMHO, this is the mentality that *must* be fixed. Quoting Michael Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This would be lying, no ? I don't think this is very honest... OK, I know, this would be lying, this would be not very honest, etc... But I don't

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 31 March 2003 02:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Lundi 31 Mars 2003 01:27, Edward Tandi a écrit : But I do personally think that the quality is beginning to suffer. I think Mandrake should be releasing less frequently and have a longer stability/testing/fixing period. If

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 31 March 2003 13:29, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - rename the beta to RC directly, or just use 1 beta. Psychologically, a lot of people try only the latest RC, thinking

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, IMHO, this is the mentality that *must* be fixed. people usually are non patchable :-(

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Duncan
On Mon 31 Mar 2003 04:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted as excerpted below: For the 9.0, I remember that there were so my bugs to correct the last week, Mandrake decided to postpone the final by one week. Everyone agreed and cheered Mandrake for a good decision. This would be exactly the same to

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Duncan
On Mon 31 Mar 2003 05:09, Steffen Barszus posted as excerpted below: What about an alpha release from time to time ? My biggest problem is -a to get the beta becaue of bandwidth - to get the beta before the next beta is out ;) Isn't this what Cooker is, essentially, at any moment, at least

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wrote on Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:32:06PM +0200 : On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla This also requires discipline from testers. Installer

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Edward Tandi
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: of If you want to ensure your hardware works, you *must* test beta1. Buchan Agree. I posted a similar message just after the final release. Maybe the more efficient way is to : ... -

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread andre
On Monday 31 March 2003 00:36, Leon Brooks wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 16:58, Michael Scherer wrote: Since dosemu without a OS image is useless, they dropped it. That's a false assumption if ever I've seen one. Nothing wrong with installing your own copy of MS-DOS 6.22 under DOSEMU.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:01, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: perhaps the time has come to start looking at a slower release cycle,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Buchan Milne
On Mon, 30 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: I fail to see why a laptop needs vastly different software to a dekstop machine. Does Apple have a laptop version of OS X? Yes Please show me where I can buy it (and I don't mean bundled, OEM is OEM, Mandrake also does OEM, but this is not

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Robert L Martin
But how easy is it to set up MS-DOS depends on how hard you want it to be IF you have the floppies/ or a partition handy

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 31 March 2003 01:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Buchan Milne wrote on Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:32:06PM +0200 : On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla This also requires discipline from testers.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-31 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Mon Mar 31 21:00 -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: But the installer has to be reasonably finished before the rc phase starts. In my opinion, far too many features were being actively developed during the beta period: for example: mdkkdm, installer, mcc, galaxy and there are others. All of

[Cooker] wish list for 9.2 - joystick configuration

2003-03-31 Thread Elliott Martin
seeing the wishlist flyby got me thinking... ...it would be really cool if there were a drak tool for joystick configuration... anyway, it's just an idea! -elliott

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 22:19, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 04:21, Leon Brooks wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:31, Adam Williamson wrote: Don't start crying gentoo!, because if you get speed boosts via gentoo it's generally by using very aggressive compilation options,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread iastrubn
Quoting Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats wrong with dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to build. no it does not. it compiled in gcc. Also, DosBox promises to be a little less savage on the CPU useage. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:04, Leon Brooks wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats wrong with dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to build. huh? no, that's incorrect, but it just won't compile under mandrake ATM,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Scherer
Entête en cours de reécriture, merci de patienter en lisant la réponse au mail de [EMAIL PROTECTED], à Dimanche 30 Mars 2003 11:09 Quoting Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats wrong with dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Scherer
No, but I'd guess Mandrake has less aggressive compilation options for a reason. Would the distro actually all build right with more aggressive ones? Well, just create the options, and, a lot of volontary beta tester will give us report :-) I think that mandrake use conservative compilation

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: How? A likes-optimisation RPM spec tag? LikesOptimised: CPU=i686 SSE Anything that takes advantage of SSE should be packaged right (Gwenole's multiple lib story). * A working MS-DOS emulator. Didn't dosbox go into contrib just after

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: Well, just create the options, and, a lot of volontary beta tester will give us report :-) I don't think this is a good way to test ... some obscure software no-one on cooker uses could have a fatal flaw triggered by optimisations. I think that

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 30 March 2003 12:02, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to build. huh? no, that's incorrect, but it just won't compile under mandrake ATM, and the project does'nt really seem to be that active, no stable release since 2001... no it is only sligtly

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Per yvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:58, Michael Scherer wrote: Entête en cours de reécriture, merci de patienter en lisant la réponse au mail de [EMAIL PROTECTED], à Dimanche 30 Mars 2003 11:09 Quoting Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 30 March

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Duncan
On Sat 29 Mar 2003 20:23, Leon Brooks posted as excerpted below: On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:00, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:46, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 Hooray! I'll vote for that. What about all those RPM requests in Ma[n]drakeClub? We should have all

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Samedi 29 Mars 2003 18:22, Francisco Alcaraz a écrit : Well, so the message of Guillaume should be interpreted about de development of draktools and others utilities to be created by the Mandrakesoft team or incorporated to the system. I didn't intend to be harsh in any manner, just to say

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Guillaume Rousse wrote: - gpg-agent support - mdadm support - synaptic driver - easy.urpmi better integration - mirror mess sanitization - complete UI-review of all Mandrake tools including accessibility support http://www.phatvibez.net/files/mandrake/draketools.html

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Edward Tandi
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:03, Duncan wrote: On Sat 29 Mar 2003 20:23, Leon Brooks posted as excerpted below: On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:00, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:46, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 Hooray! I'll vote for that. What about all those RPM

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Scherer
- complete UI-review of all Mandrake tools including accessibility support http://www.phatvibez.net/files/mandrake/draketools.html http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ I know that Mandrake is doing usabilty test on their secretary ( and others employees as well ). What we need is way to

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:31, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:03, Duncan wrote: On Sat 29 Mar 2003 20:23, Leon Brooks posted as excerpted below: On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:00, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:46, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 March 2003 20:25, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:31, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:03, Duncan wrote: On Sat 29 Mar 2003 20:23, Leon Brooks posted as excerpted below: On Sunday 30 March 2003

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Edward Tandi wrote: But at the same time, It would have been good to get more of the Club-requested apps into the release. Its all swings and roundabouts. Well, a lot of the Club requests *did* make it, and *because* of Club. Some were not feasible for club volunteers,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 30 March 2003 16:58, Michael Scherer wrote: Since dosemu without a OS image is useless, they dropped it. That's a false assumption if ever I've seen one. Nothing wrong with installing your own copy of MS-DOS 6.22 under DOSEMU. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Edward Tandi
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 19:39, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 March 2003 20:25, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:31, Edward Tandi wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:03, Duncan wrote: On Sat 29 Mar 2003 20:23, Leon

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-30 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Lundi 31 Mars 2003 01:27, Edward Tandi a écrit : But I do personally think that the quality is beginning to suffer. I think Mandrake should be releasing less frequently and have a longer stability/testing/fixing period. If you look at the reviews of Linux distros, the highest

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As it seems the correct moment: - gpg-agent support - mdadm support - synaptic driver - easy.urpmi better integration - mirror mess sanitization * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2 (USB host-to-host)

2003-03-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As it seems the correct moment: ...oh, and support for usbnet as a network install medium, so you can plug a machine with no LAN card into another Mandrake box with a USB host-to-host cable (about AUD$100 retail, not a brainless A-to-A

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and consequently rebuild URPMI updates if

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:28, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: * Documentation on how to submit stuff like ISP details for the internet Drake thingy. First, it would be nice if drakconnect would allow you to configure a dialup connection *after* a LAN

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
A Data base system for little data-base, until now the conection with MysQL, postgresql and similar is powerfull and difficult; most of the people do need a not as powerfull data-base server, but a very easy to use (create database, add data, made easyli queries and so on). Yes, the shadow of

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:57, Leon Brooks wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote: As it seems the correct moment: - gpg-agent support - mdadm support - synaptic driver - easy.urpmi better integration - mirror mess sanitization * One-click/one-command

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Samedi 29 Mars 2003 14:22, Francisco Alcaraz a écrit : A Data base system for little data-base, until now the conection with MysQL, postgresql and similar is powerfull and difficult; most of the people do need a not as powerfull data-base server, but a very easy to use (create database, add

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2: dialup

2003-03-29 Thread rcc
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:03:41 +0100 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:28, Buchan Milne wrote: Better support of dial up on more places, including: - dialup for users (where-should-i-click-to-connect-to-the-net-syndrom) yea, I second that. It goes for

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Guillaume, dont missunderstanding me; I know, a easy to use database is not something to do by Mandrake team but to incorporate if there exists some good solution. You mean wish and this is a wish, isn't it? El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 14:35, Guillaume Rousse escribió: Le Samedi 29 Mars

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Oden Eriksson
lördagen den 29 mars 2003 14.03 skrev Steffen Barszus: [snip] - Better hardware database, maybe with user-contibuted entries That would be easy during the final stage of the install if the user is prompted with a question like Would you like to submit your hardware list to our HW QA team

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: A Data base system for little data-base, until now the conection with MysQL, postgresql and similar is powerfull and difficult; most of the people do need a not as powerfull data-base server, but a very easy to use (create database, add data,

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Michael Scherer
* (Content is not really Mandrake's problem, but...) More complete and better-integrated documentation for existing applications. Well, what about localized documentation ? There is some good website on Linux in french, and it would be a great idea to have them as bookmark, or as

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2: dialup

2003-03-29 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Saturday 29 March 2003 14:31, rcc wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:03:41 +0100 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 13:28, Buchan Milne wrote: Better support of dial up on more places, including: - dialup for users

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Samedi 29 Mars 2003 14:55, Buchan Milne a écrit : Have you tried a dbf file-based database with OO.o? Yes, it works fine. OO.o uses odbc to access to a postgres database. There is OOoverBD, a document in french with screenshots: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/edu/archinet/OOo/ for example :

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Samedi 29 Mars 2003 14:35, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : Yes, the shadow of access is over us, but we need something similar (probably still not avaliable under linux, but OOo has a projetc about this). postgresql and pgaccess ? postgresql is the best DBMS even better than Oracle. But

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:57, Leon Brooks wrote: * Falling-off-a-log-easy WINE, with useful help on getting Windows apps to work under WINE (even if this is a link to an internet site, good general help for getting things working should be available, both in the form of a newbie

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Austin
On 2003.03.29 06:57 Leon Brooks wrote: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and consequently rebuild URPMI updates if need

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Per yvind Karlsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 March 2003 17:51, Austin wrote: On 2003.03.29 06:57 Leon Brooks wrote: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Samedi 29 Mars 2003 17:25, Danny Tholen a écrit : What about Xwine (is now in contribs)?, guess I could add a link to some docs in that program. Good idea ! Migration and compatibility tools could be a new directory in rpmdrake. This is now a great family of products. This is also a good

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Well, so the message of Guillaume should be interpreted about de development of draktools and others utilities to be created by the Mandrakesoft team or incorporated to the system. Let me think It will be good for 9.2 to include 1) Documentation about specific taks: lisen to music on

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread webudo2
A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Pierre BETOUIN
Le sam 29/03/2003 à 18:46, webudo2 a écrit : A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla -- Great ! ;) -- Maybe it could be a good thing to integrate bugbuddy when core.* are generated... An option which could be activated in drakconf? In 9.2, it could

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2: dialup

2003-03-29 Thread rcc
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:31:36 +0100 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mserver as well as LineControl are in contrib :) (thanks to buchan). And the author of gmasqdialer (mserver) told me he want to have a look at LineControl excellent, my thanks go to Buchan I'm going to test these

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla This also requires discipline from testers. Installer problems cannot be worked on substantially after RCs. Kernel/hardware issues must be known/resolved during beta.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread iastrubn
Quoting Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and consequently rebuild URPMI

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Texstar
For the vast majority of applications you'll see no real increase in speed at all between compiling for i586 and compiling for athlon-xp. Is that also the reason why the rpmrc file in 9.1 doesnt contain the additional optimization options that were present in the 9.0 rpmrc? No real

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:19, Texstar wrote: For the vast majority of applications you'll see no real increase in speed at all between compiling for i586 and compiling for athlon-xp. Is that also the reason why the rpmrc file in 9.1 doesnt contain the additional optimization options

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Michael Scherer
The problem is that optimising for your system sounds all l33t and cool but really, it's not, it's a huge waste of time. I fully agree, but this is what the client dreams of. Even if the gain is not worth the work, if it allow Mandrake to gain some market share, it may be interesting. And

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: I fully agree, but this is what the client dreams of. Even if the gain is not worth the work, if it allow Mandrake to gain some market share, it may be interesting. But it is more important to have real features than marketing hype. And you

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Edward Tandi
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:46, webudo2 wrote: A bugfree released MDK 9.2 - with all bugs resolved known from cooker and bugzilla Hooray! I'll vote for that. What about all those RPM requests in MadrakeClub? We should have all of them too! Ed-T.

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 29 March 2003 20:28, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 02:10, Leon Brooks wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 20:28, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM

Re: [Cooker] wish list for 9.2

2003-03-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats wrong with dosemu? Requires proprietary C compiler to build. Also, DosBox promises to be a little less savage on the CPU useage. Cheers; Leon

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