Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-08 Thread Neil Thompson
55, In IT since 1980 (COBOL, punch cards, etc). Linux - SLS (April(ish) 1994) - Slackware (Shortly afterwards) - Red Hat Mother's Day (May 1995) and been on Redhattish stuff ever since. Currently chief linux geek at an engineering copmpany. -- Cheers! (Relax, don't worry, have

Re: OT: Where do I find what pkgs may enter(ed) the Fedora chain?

2010-09-28 Thread Neil Thompson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:34:55AM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > Just Curious. > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/ > Heh...you just got the email from them too? Hopefully, as Red Hat have made a positive comment about this, it'll be sooner rather than later - F16, maybe? -- Cheers! (Relax..

Re: bugzilla.gnome.org is closing

2020-11-14 Thread Neil Thompson
I think you have more chance of seeing the sun go nova. On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 15:54, John Mellor wrote: > Gnome bugzilla is absolutely useless, as nobody is doing any bugfixes. > I don't think that a single one of my bugs has been resolved ever since > Fedora started using Gnome. Its a very st

Re: OT - but of relevance!! Secret Open Source - Is this legal

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Thompson
I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done in sandboxes. On 3 May 2016 at 18:40, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 16/05

Re: Personal disputs in bugzilla (bug 1401166 )

2017-02-20 Thread Neil Thompson
At the very least, I think the package maintainer needs to be spoken to by fedora people - swearing at bug reporters on the Fedora Bugzilla is probably not "being excellent to each other". On 20 February 2017 at 10:52, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi there, > > I frequently get bitten by bug *14011

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
I generally wait a month or so before upgrading, just to make sure that everything on the additional repos is sorted out. Having said that, apart from the occasional oddity (like this time I had to uninstall cmake-fedora before upgrading), the cli upgrade process has been pretty much flawless over

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
Sorted out and working properly. I have no problem admitting I'm letting other people do the hard work now. I've done my time. On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 19:36, sixpack13 wrote: > On 12.03.20 17:29, Neil Thompson wrote: > > I generally wait a month or so before upgrading, jus

Re: Reasons for staying on a old version ( Re: Prepping for upgrade)

2020-03-12 Thread Neil Thompson
Ralf, With all due respect (i.e. none) I don't think your opinion is really necessary here - you've made your feelings clear over the last long while and I have to wonder what the heck you're still doing here if you hate the whole thing so much. Surely there's another distribution that meets your

Fedora at South African Software Freedom Day

2010-07-20 Thread Neil Thompson
Hi all, I'm not a Fedora Ambassador or anything, but the folks at my local SFD committee know I use Fedora and were wondering about a Fedora stall at the SFD meeting - http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria Is there a South African Ambassador? Or does anyone have ad