Re: Future of linux-image-grsec-* packages

2017-08-29 Thread Adrien CLERC
Le 29/08/2017 à 14:51, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : > I suggest you write to the maintainer of that Debian package. Thanks for the suggestion. In the meantime, I found a bug report that I missed : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867166 This is give me the exact answer I need.

Re: Future of linux-image-grsec-* packages

2017-08-29 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 29/08/17 02:22, Adrien CLERC wrote: > Hi, > > Since the announce of grsecurity to go to a complete non-free (as in > beer) model (see https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php), I was > wondering if there is any future for those packages. I suggest you write to the maintainer of that Debian

Future of linux-image-grsec-* packages

2017-08-29 Thread Adrien CLERC
Hi, Since the announce of grsecurity to go to a complete non-free (as in beer) model (see https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php), I was wondering if there is any future for those packages. I am really grateful for the maintainer who did this. This is a great job, since it allowed me to

Re: Future of Linux Question

2004-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:04:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network neighborhood and smb for Linux. Well, all SMB does is handle network file systems and network printers. Both

Future of Linux Question

2004-01-22 Thread David . Grudek
Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your currently logged in user name and password. This way people that are

Re: Future of Linux Question

2004-01-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
esOn Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:04:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your

Re: Future of Linux Question

2004-01-22 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-22 23:04]: Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your currently logged

Re: Future of Linux Question

2004-01-22 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:04:50 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your currently logged

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The concept seems very interesting to me, although I wonder if it is within the scope of LSB; I had the notion that its effort was concerned with standardizing existing development approaches. Probably it's not [it being TenDRA]. On the other hand,

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-17 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Bruce Stephens wrote: Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 - an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a signature change (which may be

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-17 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Christopher Hassell wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 10:11:31AM +0100, Davide Bolcioni wrote: ] ] ... ] This is so that every app doesnt install their own version of python ] just in case. That could be extended to all interpreters and some ] libraries probably and a farmed out approach

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-17 Thread Christopher Hassell
At the risk of reviving a very quickly-quiet thread... I've still an interest and have acquired some opinions around our software house. On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 01:37:05PM +, Alan Cox wrote: ]Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. ] Glibc does wide

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-17 Thread Christopher Hassell
Okay, I just got a bit more info from our main locale-issues developer (Jon Trulson): The multi-byte functions *are* there in glibc. He knows they are there. They just are not reliable enough, powerful enough, to stick with in our new products. (i.e. setlocale() doesn't apparently do

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-13 Thread BadlandZ
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Andy Tai wrote: Compilers are also an issue I feel strongly about. I think gcc and egcs are awsome, but no match (yet) for commercial compilers. Don't even think of trying making some commerical compilers part of the Linux standard, if they's what you are thinking.

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 - an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a signature change (which may be construed as a deletion

RE: Future of Linux

1998-11-12 Thread BadlandZ
---BeginMessage--- Alan Cox wrote: What else will the lsb cover? Or has there been a decision about that yet? The only other stuff covered at the meeting was X11. The good work XFree does is a big help there as their binary interfaces and the X specification API's are both

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Cox
Badlandz wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I think it is unwize at this point to make LSB conserned with X11R6 standards. Of course it should/could comply with what X11R6, but I libX11.so.* is Xlib is X11, as are the X packages. Other stuff like themed widget sets sit on X11 (ie another library that you

The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-12 Thread Christopher Hassell
You can guess what I'll say I suppose? Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. X is the main site where that is being taken care of (i.e. fonts, keymaps, input managers for asia etc..).. and that is not now standard in any great and good way, very

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-12 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Alan Cox wrote: ... This is so that every app doesnt install their own version of python just in case. That could be extended to all interpreters and some libraries probably and a farmed out approach would IMHO be good. This is a notion of software contract, if I understand correctly: a

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Cox
Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. Glibc does wide char, ncurses seems to imply it does (I've not checked yet). toward. Is there any interest in what we have thus far at Xi? Well I know the currnt KDE doesnt handle 16bit Glyphs, Im not sure about

Future of Linux

1998-11-11 Thread Greg S. Hayes
I was overjoyed at the appearance of the lsb, but now I am somewhat dismayed at the lack of discussion on the mailing list... so to anyone listening LETS START SOME! First, I believe that the FHS is probably one of the most important steps in bridging linux compatibility. What, if any, is

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
steps in bridging linux compatibility. What, if any, is the consensus on the FHS 2.0... do the distributions that are part of the lsb agree to use it? It was discussed at and shortly after the LI meeting when Bruce presented the whole cunning plan. FHS 2.0 is a big help but it might need some

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote: steps in bridging linux compatibility. What, if any, is the consensus on the FHS 2.0... do the distributions that are part of the lsb agree to use it? It was discussed at and shortly after the LI meeting when Bruce presented the whole cunning plan.

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-11 Thread Greg S. Hayes
UDI is irrelevant. The existing UDI semantics cannot express the Linux resource management or driver layering. Its also out of the lsb standard area completely (indeed conceptually you could probably hack freebsd around and produce a LSB compliant freebsd) since we care about services at the

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
What else will the lsb cover? Or has there been a decision about that yet? The only other stuff covered at the meeting was X11. The good work XFree does is a big help there as their binary interfaces and the X specification API's are both stable. Motif has been raised as a question, as