Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-06 Thread Ben Gamari
On Thu, 6 May 2010 00:58:36 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: > > I apologize if I was frank, but problem with PulseAudio is that it > does not always work with existing code. > Yes, this is true. But again, the problem is with the existing code, not PulseAudio. If we are going to simply give up whenever

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-05 Thread Ben Gamari
On Wed, 5 May 2010 21:52:25 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: > Emulators are a subset of games. They use the same libraries and > frameworks. If they do not work, games will not likely not work. > If they do not work, it is more likely that the game is broken in its usage of the underlying hardware than P

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-05 Thread Ben Gamari
On Wed, 5 May 2010 18:44:02 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: > Ubuntu needs a change in direction. Is that so? Now back up your claim with something substantial and maybe, just maybe, someone might buy your argument. I will say, however, that you have an up-hill battle. If you are going to propose sweepi

Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Ben Gamari
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:57:10 -0300, Flávio Etrusco wrote: > IIRC Fedora lowered the number of login terminals for reasons other > than process/memory overhead - though I can't remember what reasons > were from the top of my head ;-) > BTW, does a terminal allocate any video memory when using KMS

Re: Upstart (now, a very modest suggestion)

2010-03-05 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Patrick Goetz's message of Fri Mar 05 13:27:52 -0500 2010: > So of course it only took a little digging to discover that smbd and > nmbd are now services started separately, and that (bizarrely) there is > now a winbind daemon which is still started from /etc/init.d, but > neverthe

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Brett Mahar's message of Thu Feb 04 20:00:19 -0500 2010: > > Is it still necessary to even have releases every 6 months? How many > more new features/changes need to be made to the OS? It seems pretty > well developed as-is. > You are kidding, right? It amazes me that someone would

Re: Question about this list

2010-02-02 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Amahdy's message of Wed Jan 27 21:19:30 -0500 2010: > If other developers put sometime to make life easier (and faster) for us. > There is a user interface, a browser, an email client ..etc, then only > because I like the keyboard I'll use terminal?? I do like terminal and I use > it

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Amahdy's message of Wed Jan 27 21:40:21 -0500 2010: > >* >Mailing lists are the lifeblood of most open source projects. > > *>* > > *>* Always wondering why!! why not move on to a *group* > > *>* > > *A better question would be why _should we_ move on to a "group." I see > > no clear

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Amahdy's message of Wed Jan 27 21:19:30 -0500 2010: > If other developers put sometime to make life easier (and faster) for us. > There is a user interface, a browser, an email client ..etc, then only > because I like the keyboard I'll use terminal?? I do like terminal and I use > it

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Ben Gamari's message of Wed Jan 27 20:59:36 -0500 2010: Excerpts from Amahdy's message of Wed Jan 27 20:01:09 -0500 2010: > >Because what we have works very well and doesn't rely on an external entity. > > We all know that there is "no bug free software", so if mailman is very good,

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Amahdy's message of Wed Jan 27 13:47:52 -0500 2010: > Many Open-Source communities use this kind of mailman mailing-lists > I feel missing something here but really wondering why? even for new > projects like Ubuntu (founded 2004 which is new to know other alternative > technologies)

gfortran and g77

2009-12-08 Thread Ben Gamari
It seems that as of gcc-4 (or on the Ubuntu timeline, Intrepid), g77 has been superseded by gfortran. Unfortunately, it seems that the gfortran packaging was not updated to account for this fact: gfortran does not provide an alternative for f77. I believe this should not be the case, as according t