Re: udev-extras vs usb_modeswitch

2009-06-22 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Przemek Kulczycki [2009-06-21 22:17 +0200]: >> Recently I've noticed that there is a package in universe called >> udev-extras which contains some hal quirks for various hardware, and >> also contains some utility called modem-modeswitch. >> Is

Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-22 Thread Ryan Swart
Well, Intel adopting Moblin might see them becoming a much stronger Linux partner, but then again, you never know what clandestine things are going on in the background dealings (although moblin looks really cool now, so personally I'm glad about Intel's involvement). Nvidia drivers have never giv

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-22 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > Just installed karmic alpha 2, and noticed that a few packages that > should have been removed at install are left behind. > > These include gparted, ubiquity, casper and a couple of others. > Ubiquity's package description even states: Inst

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-22 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 21/06/2009 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > GIve me a photo collection manager that can handle movies and I'll > switch from dual booting Mac for iPhoto until then i'll just hide > ;-) I think that the new mono-based audio player in ubuntu can also do movies. They are half-way between audio and pi

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/6/21 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > 2009/6/21 Sense Hofstede : >> >> As far as I'm aware there has been no discussion whatsoever about >> removing either F-Spot or Mono in Barcelona. There is also no >> blueprint nor other discussion. This is the first time it's suggested, >> if I'm correct. >> > > Ok f

Re: udev-extras vs usb_modeswitch

2009-06-22 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Przemek Kulczycki [2009-06-21 22:17 +0200]: >> Recently I've noticed that there is a package in universe called >> udev-extras which contains some hal quirks for various hardware, and >> also contains some utility called modem-modeswitch. >> Is

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sense Hofstede wrote on 22/06/09 13:41: >... > In one sentence: I think F-Spot should be removed from the LiveCD > because it's useless on the CD and takes up space that could be used > much better. >... You still haven't given any explanation of why

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Sense, 2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede : > 2) I mentioned removing Mono from the LiveCD because when F-Spot is > gone, just one Mono application remains on the LiveCD: Tomboy. Tomboy > is something that's definitely worth including on the LiveCD. However, > this single program does require a whole lan

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede > 2009/6/21 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > > 2009/6/21 Sense Hofstede : > Hello, > > 1) Although I'm personally of the opinion that F-Spot indeed should be > considered to be replaced, I don't suggest to do so with this > suggestions. Maybe I should have made that more clear. > I

Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-22 Thread Davyd McColl
To answer the OP's question, I think that only Intel has completely open drivers (out of the three mentioned). Last time I looked, the FGLRX driver still had a binary blob. To just add another POV to the mix: I've used NVIDIA and ATI (having had cards from both in the past). I've had fewer issues

Re: [Ubuntu-gaming] AMD/ATI vs NVIDIA vs Intel

2009-06-22 Thread Remco
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Ryan Swart wrote: > Well, Intel adopting Moblin might see them becoming a much stronger Linux > partner, but then again, you never know what clandestine things are going on > in the background dealings (although moblin looks really cool now, so > personally I'm gla

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Sense Hofstede
2009/6/22 Alan Pope : > Hi Sense, > > 2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede : >> 2) I mentioned removing Mono from the LiveCD because when F-Spot is >> gone, just one Mono application remains on the LiveCD: Tomboy. Tomboy >> is something that's definitely worth including on the LiveCD. However, >> this single p

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Manish Sinha
On Monday 22 June 2009 02:11 AM, sam tygier wrote: Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 20/26 MB of Gimp is Documentation as pointed out on Ubuntu Planet. I think there is also thunderbird documentation(?) in thunderbird-locale-en-gb included on the live cd, even though thunderbird is not includ

New "libc" project libposix started

2009-06-22 Thread Henrique Almeida
* This message is being sent both to ubuntu-devel (because it's the "point of contact for upstream developers") and ubuntu-devel-discuss (because it's an "idea for the development of Ubuntu") ;-) I've started the development of a new libc implementation called libposix. The project has many goal

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-22 Thread Nathan Dorfman
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote: > No, I just tested this myself and was unable to reproduce the behavior > you experienced.  Are you sure the installation did not crash near the > end, and enough of the system was in place to allow you to boot?  You > would not have seen the "i

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/6/22 Manish Sinha : > > $ sudo apt-get remove gimp-help-en > After this operation, 8757kB disk space will be freed. > > It shows that 8757KB will be freed and not 20MB > > -- > Manish Sinha > gimp-help-common is not set as automatically installed cause it's part of the default install $ sudo

Fallback plan if Empathy isn't ready for Karmic?

2009-06-22 Thread Andrew Sayers
There's currently a big push to make Empathy the default IM client in Karmic, even though the version in Jaunty still has grave issues - for example, MSN doesn't work at all for me[1]. The plan is to make sure that these bugs are all fixed in time for Karmic, but what's the backup plan if there