Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Tux99
Quote: Frank Griffin wrote on Sun, 27 March 2011 00:34 > For you to complain that because you have minimal network access, the > rest of the Mageia community should bend over backwards to avoid your > having to swap a few CDs during install is a pretty hollow argument, in > > my opinion. And

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/26/2011 06:37 PM, Maarten Vanraes wrote: During the times mandriva had several CDs to install it, the new ones often only dl'ed one and complained when stuff didn't work. I forsee possibly here the same issue with this, people will forget to download the extra non_free CD, or do not care

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/26/2011 01:11 AM, andre999 wrote: Frank Griffin a écrit : From what you say, there are not a lot of points of disagreement between us, on this issue. We both have contributed to open source for a long time, you apparently mostly on developement/packaging, myself mostly translating/ aid

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 26 maart 2011 23:15:22 schreef Oliver Burger: > Anssi Hannula schrieb am 26.03.2011 > > > I don't really have a strong preference here, as long as > > 1) it is consistent, and > > 2) users are happy (e.g. no situation where even the free radeon > > driver doesn't work with any ISO) >

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Oliver Burger
Anssi Hannula schrieb am 26.03.2011 > I don't really have a strong preference here, as long as > 1) it is consistent, and > 2) users are happy (e.g. no situation where even the free radeon > driver doesn't work with any ISO) Couldn't we have the following: - Live CDs (like Mandriva One, including

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 22:27, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: >>> Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): >>> * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does >>> n

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: [RPM] cauldron core/updates_testing clementine-0.6-5.mga1

2011-03-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 26 maart 2011 20:49:54 schreef Thomas Backlund: > lör 2011-03-26 klockan 10:44 +0200 skrev Maarten Vanraes: > > Op vrijdag 25 maart 2011 21:25:25 schreef Thomas Backlund: > > > Ahmad Samir skrev 25.3.2011 20:59: > > > > The repo name in installations is "Core Testing", so the > > > > in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: [RPM] cauldron core/updates_testing clementine-0.6-5.mga1

2011-03-26 Thread Thomas Backlund
lör 2011-03-26 klockan 10:44 +0200 skrev Maarten Vanraes: > Op vrijdag 25 maart 2011 21:25:25 schreef Thomas Backlund: > > Ahmad Samir skrev 25.3.2011 20:59: > > > The repo name in installations is "Core Testing", so the inconsistency > > > is not fully my fault :) > > > > Not anymore... > > > >

Re: [Mageia-dev] lxde under gdm ?

2011-03-26 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 26 March 2011 02:15, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 26 March 2011 00:13, Frank Griffin wrote: >> This is probably an incredibly stupid question, but is LXDE expected to work >> in conjunction with GDM ? >> >> I thought I'd give LXDE a try, but both from my usual ID and a new ID, it >> crashes X (or a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please welcome a new packager

2011-03-26 Thread L B
congratulations obgr_seneca :)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 26 maart 2011 13:19:10 schreef Michael scherer: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:33:04AM +0100, Tux99 wrote: > > Quote: andr55 wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 01:29 > > > > > My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that > > > its > > > actual free/non-free status should

Re: [Mageia-dev] lxde under gdm ?

2011-03-26 Thread David Pernot
I had it again after resizing screen under virtualbox. After reboot it's ok. 2011/3/26 David Pernot : > I had this issue too, yesterday after my daily upgrade. > I cleant my ~/.config dir and all went fine again. > > David > > 2011/3/26 Ahmad Samir : >> On 26 March 2011 00:13, Frank Griffin wrot

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-26 Thread Michael scherer
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:33:04AM +0100, Tux99 wrote: > > > Quote: andr55 wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 01:29 > > > My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that > > its > > actual free/non-free status shouldn't apply - we should treat it like > > (almost) part of the har

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-26 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:38, Tux99 wrote: Also is there an official rule somewhere that specifies: "because we don't want to have software built on a deprecated library in the repository" or is this simply an arbitrary rule that restricts freedoms of users and ot

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fwd: [RPM] cauldron core/updates_testing clementine-0.6-5.mga1

2011-03-26 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 25 maart 2011 21:25:25 schreef Thomas Backlund: > Ahmad Samir skrev 25.3.2011 20:59: > > The repo name in installations is "Core Testing", so the inconsistency > > is not fully my fault :) > > Not anymore... > > I fixed the naming 12 days ago when I added media.cfg to svn. > > But sin

Re: [Mageia-dev] lxde under gdm ?

2011-03-26 Thread David Pernot
I had this issue too, yesterday after my daily upgrade. I cleant my ~/.config dir and all went fine again. David 2011/3/26 Ahmad Samir : > On 26 March 2011 00:13, Frank Griffin wrote: >> This is probably an incredibly stupid question, but is LXDE expected to work >> in conjunction with GDM ? >>