Re: The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers > about the opening of graphics drivers: www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement> > > Currently I'm using Intel's integrated graphics (G965, G3

Re: The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: > On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers > > about the opening of graphics drivers: > www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statem

Re: The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: >> On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers >> > about th

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-25 Thread Pär Lidén
I recently installed SPSS (a closed-source statistical program), and the downloaded .bin file for Linux contained an installation progam using Installshield (probably the same as they are using on Windows). I'm pretty sure the SPSS people don't want to invest in switching installation system, or m

Re: kernel image updates and dependencies

2008-06-25 Thread Phillip Susi
Onno Benschop wrote: > Hi, > > A recent update to the kernel in my Gutsy laptop, from 2.6.22-14.21 to > 2.6.22-15.54, prompted by Update Manager has caused VMware to stop working. > > This is likely because the vmware modules have not yet been updated from > 2.6.22-14 to 2.6.22-15. I've lodged a

Re: kernel image updates and dependencies

2008-06-25 Thread Onno Benschop
On 26/06/08 04:27, Phillip Susi wrote: > Onno Benschop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A recent update to the kernel in my Gutsy laptop, from 2.6.22-14.21 to >> 2.6.22-15.54, prompted by Update Manager has caused VMware to stop >> working. >> >> This is likely because the vmware modules have not yet been updat

Re: cups-pdf

2008-06-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Jochen J. Ulbricht wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a script which asks the user what to do with a created > pdf-file after printing to cups-pdfprinter. > > open | save | mail | add to collection > > I've written a script which parses the /etc/cups/cusps-pdf config adds > the PostProcessing vari

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-25 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 25-06-2008 om 21:35 uur [tijdzone +0300], schreef Pär Lidén: > To those who say ISVs anyway targets specific distributions: Yes, they would > still have to test it on all the major distributions, but they could use a > single installation implementation. And they would have to learn onl