Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Your comments beg the question, *do* HAL and D-Bus ever actually need to be restarted (and, if so, why?). As far as I know, they need to be restarted on two conditions: (1) Some HAL/DBus config changes (2)

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned course of action is to reboot the system if HAL or

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Coleman Kane
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Shawn O'Shea
Along similar lines to Ben's original link, apparently stability problems in Ubuntu have frustrated the Eeebuntu developer to the point that he is giving up on maintaining Eee utils for Ubuntu for the EePC. http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html -Shawn On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM,

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Susan Cragin
g-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> Subject: Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows Along similar lines to Ben's original link, apparently stability problems in Ubuntu have frustrated the Eeebuntu developer to the point that he is giving up on maintaining Eee utils for Ubuntu for the EePC.http://

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org wrote: I think you're confusing all of Linux with Ubuntu. Read the link target again. The HAL/DBus people in Ubuntu wanted to do the right thing, and just restart the daemons. All the upstream package maintainers -- the

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org writes: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: