On 25 October 2012 04:37, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 16:09:17 -0700,
Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
to the
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Paul Stuffins paul.stuff...@orqoo.comwrote:
Don't forget that there are hundreds of distros, that may or may not use
different versions of the same libraries. As an example, Ubuntu uses
Gnome3, but not Gnome Shell, Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu uses a
On 24/10/12 23:04, Paul Stuffins wrote:
give us some money page before you get to download
the ISO.
iirc, they're not breaking any freedom by doing so.
They are asking for a donation, as does many projects on Sourceforge.
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On 25 October 2012 08:25, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 October 2012 04:37, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 16:09:17 -0700,
Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
keep things
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 12:37 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
Oh, and sound, the weird state of sound for years was a problem too.
Games are supposed to be fun, too much end user configuration to get
them working puts people off before you've started.
The few brief years that I put up with Windows, and
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course. I was only using that as an example. What I meant to convey
(and I clearly did a poor job) was that this problem runs through the
system, starting at the deepest levels. I don't even bother sending
binaries to
In my humble opinion (humble but strong ;)... that´s what Java is for.
:) to isolate app development from the underlying complexities of each
system. With OpenJDK 7 on almost every distro, soon OpenJDK 8, and JavaFX
-soon to be fully open source, see below- things will only get better.
I
On 25 October 2012 13:20, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Even on the most prolific OS, Windows, sound and graphics are the two
main problems, and it looks like they always will be. Then there's the
issue that only the game players with money will have a computer system
with a good
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
I don't know any serious games producer who considers Java anything but a
comedy item.
Oh RLY? I expected that sort of prejudiced comment... that´s why I had
the following link up my sleeve... We were talking mobile...
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:14:36 -0300
Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
I don't know any serious games producer who considers Java anything but a
comedy item.
Oh RLY? I expected that sort of prejudiced
Am 25.10.2012 01:09, schrieb Alan Evans:
Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of
ABI compatibility.
Witness VMWare
Hi,
I don't know any serious games producer who considers Java anything but a
comedy item.
Oh RLY? I expected that sort of prejudiced comment... that´s why I had
the following link up my sleeve... We were talking mobile...
For desk accessories like angry birds maybe - but its too slow for
The script should be written to use 'file' not just parse the extension.
Why? Just because in .001% of the time the extension will be wrong? Not
exactly an efficient use of resources.
Are you in that much of a hurry to get your logwatch reports?
I'd prefer to have a more accurate program
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 25.10.2012 01:09, schrieb Alan Evans:
Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Fernando Lozano
ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote:
Java could be a really nice platform for games, but Sun/Oracle/etc focused
on the EE edition, the SE/ME editions didn't evolved quick enough to make
a real impact on the games and desktop market. :-(
Things are
Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the
right one.
I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I
want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but am
stuck. The instructions I read said to reboot and then choose
On 10/25/2012 09:46 PM, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the
right one.
I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16.
I want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such,
but am stuck.
I did -- he said that it was my responsibility to upgrade the virtual
machine. The service they would provide would only be a reinstall of the
image of Fedora 16. The bottom line is that I'm give a virtual box and 5
static ips, and all maintenance is my responsibility.
billo
On Thu, 25
yum upgrade?
{^_^}
On 2012/10/25 19:47, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
I did -- he said that it was my responsibility to upgrade the virtual machine.
The service they would provide would only be a reinstall of the image of Fedora
16. The bottom line is that I'm give a virtual box and 5 static
On 10/26/2012 06:04 AM, jdow wrote:
yum upgrade?
Thanks to Fedora's (IMO: absurd) UsrMove Feature, this doesn't work
smoothly for -F17 upgrades.
IIRC, there's a wiki page somewhere (on Fedoraproject.org?) describing
the nasty details - It's pretty tedious and risky ;)
Ralf
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On 10/25/2012 08:46 PM, ven...@billoblog.com wrote:
Sorry if this is the wrong forum -- if it is, please direct me to the
right one.
I rent a virtual personal server in another city that runs Fedora 16. I
want to upgrade it to 17. I did the yum-based preupgrade and such, but
am stuck.
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