Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

You're not necessarily wrong (in fact, I agree with you on many of your points). But, we need to take advantage of this 32-to-64-bit transition window when and while we can. And the fact of the matter is, many of these problems are as bad if not worse in the Windows world, and those that remain ar

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Thanks for the grins and for clarifying Mark's "LSD" support. Mark was not very convincing: << In fact, every distro ALWAYS modifies elements of the core, and with good reason. And while we would love that not to be the case, the truth is that the reasons to specialize outweigh the benefits of

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

On Di, 2006-12-26 at 20:33 +0100, Francesco Fumanti wrote: > >The popularity system is really broken. :-) > >Perhaps it could be fixed but I really don't know how... > >Right now, all Ubuntu default apps have 4, some apps have 3, most > >Kubuntu apps have 2, and then the rest have 1. > > > >Take I

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

On 12/27/06, Wes Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With out-of-the-box Wine and Codex support, > it would be well-poised to become [...] dominant on the desktop (Just a nitpick, its "codecs"; a codex is a book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex). CODEC is a shortened version of COmpressor-DEC

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

I don't disagree with your reasoned points. Perhaps all I advocate is a change in priorities: PC vendors will not pre-load Linux until it is better standardized and supportable. Therefore bellyaching about lack of pre-loads is pointless. The same point can be made about lack of hardware suppo

Re: An update repository for a custom distro?

El mar, 26-12-2006 a las 03:06 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano escribió: > Hi, > > I have a custom distro, that have alot of customize packages, I would > like to use the Ubuntu repository for the updates, but I'm afraid that > the customize packages would be replaced with the ubuntu packages upon > upd

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

On 12/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/27/06, Wes Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With out-of-the-box Wine and Codex support, > it would be well-poised to become [...] dominant on the desktop (Just a nitpick, its "codecs"; a codex is a book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex). CODEC is

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

You know, after doing a little digging, I think ESR may be smoking the cheeb on one of his points here. He claims that Vista is still a 32-bit OS. Upon first reading of the essay, I took his word for it. I figured that, like Windows 95 wasn't _really_ a 32-bit OS, neither was the "64-bit" version

Default font settings in Ubuntu

Hi List I propose two changes to the default font settings in Ubuntu. 1. Disable hinting so that fonts maintain their original shape 2. Enable colourised anti-aliasing, with David Turner's patches applied (pre-made packages available at

Re: User Reviews In Synaptic?

Op dinsdag 26-12-2006 om 16:42 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Constantine Evans: > It seems that this doesn't work very well. From looking at the data, > 1200 machines are reporting installations, and of those 1200 only 37 > used gdm in the last 30 days and only 42 used firefox in the last 30 > days

Re: Default font settings in Ubuntu

Hi! I don't have any particular opinion about this, but for people who, like me, aren't font experts, here's a small article about what hinting means :o) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting Cheers, Manu -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Op woensdag 27-12-2006 om 11:20 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Wes Morgan: > You know, after doing a little digging, I think ESR may be smoking the > cheeb on one of his points here. He claims that Vista is still a > 32-bit OS. Upon first reading of the essay, I took his word for it. I > figured tha

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Op woensdag 27-12-2006 om 04:02 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Conrad Knauer: > On 12/27/06, Wes Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With out-of-the-box Wine and Codex support, > > it would be well-poised to become [...] dominant on the desktop > > (Just a nitpick, its "codecs"; a codex is a book

Re: Default font settings in Ubuntu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Jones schrieb: > Hi List > > I propose two changes to the default font settings in Ubuntu. > > 1. Disable hinting so that fonts maintain their original shape > 2. Enable colourised anti-aliasing, with David Turner's patches > a

Re: Default font settings in Ubuntu

Alex Jones wrote: > Hi List > > I propose two changes to the default font settings in Ubuntu. > > 1. Disable hinting so that fonts maintain their original shape > 2. Enable colourised anti-aliasing, with David Turner's patches > applied (pre-made packages available at >

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

If you are going to continue this thread, could you please do so on sounder instead devel-discuss? This sort of discussion really isn't appropriate or relevant for devel-discuss. Thank you, Constantine Evans Wes Morgan wrote: > Most of you have probably seen ESR's recently-slashdotted essay about

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Op woensdag 27-12-2006 om 07:14 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef mikecorn: > Linux Problems > - too many bugs and rough edges in applications > - error messages are hidden in log files, incomprehensible, or do not > exist > - technical and user docs are often missing, erroneous, or outdated > - docs a

Re: Strategy for fixing Bug #1

Below is the response from Rob Landley on the Vista 64 issue: I'll format it in interview fashion so it's clear who's saying what. Wes: In your essay, you assert that Windows-64 doesn't exist and that MS still needs to provide an OS to fill the 64-bit desktop demand by 2008. However, you don't r