A "desktop" kernel in debian?

2007-03-15 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi everyone, I've recently recompiled my kernel again, after running the standard debian one, to include stuff such as preemption and a higher tick frequency (1000Hz). It is hard to test whether this makes any noticeable difference on performance, but I've found that it seems to make the desktop

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:55:51PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > as proprietary SW vendo

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name > rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names, > another wants usernames to start with numbers. > > May I ask for your opinion bef

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:13:30PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:35 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > This sounds a bit like the gun control debate. > >> > > >> > I don't want the

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:30:46PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > Tristan Seligmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Firing up a normal web browser to view Sexy Losers with is not much > > harder than using Dosage to download it. This doesn't take away from the > > idea of having a separate packag

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:48:05AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:18 +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > My few attempts to step into debian as a contributor ended after some > > hours of senseless discussions or waste of time against

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-12 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Gabor Gombas: > >> - start advertising that openjdk/icedtea is now supposed to be usable, > > Note that the non-applet stuff has been quite usable for a while. > Even the openjdk-6 in lenny is not too bad (it's certainly possible to >

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-21 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 12.10.2009 15:25, Wim De Smet wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Florian Weimer  wrote: >>> >>> * Gabor Gombas: >>> >>>> - start advertising th