I don't have time to catch up on the whole thread yet, but
https://neo900.org/ should be interesting. The older n900 phone is
quite open as well. Both [will] run an operating system called Maemo.
The neo900 solves some of the issues in current phones like the modem
sharing memory space with the ma
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:18PM -0500, Dale wrote
> What version of Firefox are you using? I've seen some changes made
> to Firefox but nothing that drastic. I'm just curious if maybe I'm
> still running a older not affected version.
>
> My reason for asking. I'm volunteer on staff at a soc
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Linux is a desktop OS. I hope it remains that way.
Uh, Linux is a kernel, and even GNU is really a collection of
shell-oriented tools, which can be run from Android just fine.
So Android IS Linux, at least as much as Gentoo is, or your
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 06:36:10 -0400
"Walter Dnes" wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:18PM -0500, Dale wrote
> > If something ugly and nasty is coming, I need to start figuring out
> > what I can do to work around this or something else to use.
>
> I don't know your definition of ugly; ever
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> > Linux is a desktop OS. I hope it remains that way.
Wow. I think of linux first as a bloated (but good) minimal OS.
It's only when yhou add stuff that you get a server or a desktop.
Folks have forgotten about 'kernel tuning'. I have deglected the linux
ker
2015-06-29 14:14 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi :
>
> I know what you mean. This is all more or less true, but what can we do in
> this situation?
> I will try to move toward whatever promotes openness, and please do not tell
> me that ubuntu
> is not more open that android. In android I cant even have
On Tue, Jun 30 2015, James wrote:
> I think I just heard a news report that Google lost a long term
> legal/financial battle with Oracle over java. It seems now that google
> (android and any thing that uses java) is going to have to pay
> Oracle some 'pal_a_monies' ? Or did I here that wrong?
>
2015-06-30 8:28 GMT-06:00 »Q« :
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 06:36:10 -0400
> "Walter Dnes" wrote:
>> They've removed text from the "File Edit View etc..."
>> menu. Instead, they've inserted a bunch of heiroglyphics/icons.
>
> The old-school, drop-down, text-only menu bar can be unhidden via a
> checkbo
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:37 AM, wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30 2015, James wrote:
>
>> I think I just heard a news report that Google lost a long term
>> legal/financial battle with Oracle over java. It seems now that google
>> (android and any thing that uses java) is going to have to pay
>> Oracle s
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:16 AM, James wrote:
>
> Folks have forgotten about 'kernel tuning'. I have deglected the linux
> kernel quite a bit of late, mostly do to the rabid frequency and
> non-sense (useless) chances being advanced. I have decided to only
> update to 'long term support' kernels.
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:37:14 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> The easiest way to stick with a branch is probably to just mask
> anything newer. Then you should get all new releases of that branch
> until it is dropped. However, I'm not sure how noisy portage will be
> if your branch is discontinued.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 09:42:58PM +0100, john wrote:
> behrouz khosravi wrote:
>
> > > If you build/install Android on a device, then it only contains what
> > > you put there, and you can just as easily remove it. If you let
> > > somebody else build/install android on a device and not give y
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:46:59PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Jolla do a phone which is Linux based. No idea if this would suit your
> > needs but may be worth a look. It's GUI is good and it uses Wayland.
> > Not sure how open it is!
>
> I second Jolla.
> FWIW, I consider buying one my
I've done a bit of googling trying to figure out how to get Google
calendar notifications to display on an XFCE desktop, and haven't
found much.
I've found a few descriptions of how to get notifications using Gnome
Shell or Evolution [don't have/want], and how to get notifications
when you have th
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:19:38 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've done a bit of googling trying to figure out how to get Google
> calendar notifications to display on an XFCE desktop, and haven't
> found much.
>
> I've found a few descriptions of how to get notifications using Gnome
> Shell o
On 2015-06-30, walt wrote:
> Maybe app-office/orage would do what you need, not sure.
Orage will pop up reminders for calendar events, but when I looked
through the orage web pages I didn't see anything about syncing to
Google calendar. I should probably do some more looking into that.
--
Gran
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:28:16 -0500
»Q« wrote:
> The old-school, drop-down, text-only menu bar can be unhidden via a
> checkbox in the 'customize' dialog. It's been hidden by default since
> well before Australis.
Thank you :) I never noticed the 'customize' dialog and I probably
never would ha
On 30 June 2015 1:44:24 AM AEST, behrouz khosravi wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS
>-
>> or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
>> bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
>>
>
>No, actually my problem is that wh
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:15:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > That's because most distros, and all top quality cover discs, use
> > hybrid ISO images that avoid the pain associated with the likes
> > of Unetbootin.
>
> If you run across one that doesn't work, you do ***NOT*** need to
> screw aro
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