Re: Samsung laser drivers for Linux - thinking aloud

2013-02-15 Thread James Freer
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> So the $1M question is: can´t Samsung design drivers which can be >> installed via a package manager (rpm), or via a cups install routine, >> instead of the current method?. I´m sure they can, in theory. > > I agr

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-25 Thread James Freer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:19:49 + > James Freer wrote: > >> but ubuntu are considering giving up. > > Yea, but they HAVE to change - they are almost out > of letters in the alphabet! LOL - good reply! I must admit

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-25 Thread James Freer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Ondrej Majerech wrote: > On 24 January 2013 16:14, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Tom Horsley >> wrote: >> > >> > How about no schedule? When something worth releasing is done, declare >> > it is time for a new release. Could be 6

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-23 Thread James Freer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:59:21PM +0000, James Freer wrote: >> I have the greatest respect for the developer's that put in >> considerable effort for each release. The problem with 6 month release >> cycle is

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

2013-01-23 Thread James Freer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/23/2013 06:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> because first new anaconda was approved and integration >> all over the distribution started and after that damage >> was done people realized "hm new anaconda is not ready" > > > So what you're s

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread James Freer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. > > You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, > there's also GNOME 3! > > I will install F18 in the next couple of

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-20 Thread James Freer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but > rather I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wraparound around > yum upgrade (from the documentation). Everything went through > reasonably smoothly

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-19 Thread James Freer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 19.01.2013 22:50, schrieb Paolo Galtieri: >> I think I'll stay on F14 > > strange logic > > you stay on F14 because you do not like the F18 installer? > WTF - and you did not notice F15,F16,F17 all the time? > > F14 does even not work