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If you can see debian-multimedia.org line in output, you should remove all the lines including it.

Nonsense. Many still working mirrors have "debian-multimedia.org" in the path name, e.g. http://debian.netcologne.de/debian-multimedia.org

Dude - you need not wait for updates.

Assuming you have a US English desktop, download http://mirror.netcologne.de/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.tar.bz2
Choose other languages here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Use your favorite archiver, extract it to your desktop, and run the "firefox" shell script inside the firefox directory. Few things could be simpler.

I started to reply to your post, downloaded, extracted, closed Swiftfox, and opened the new Firefox, and everything reloaded, including the partially completed response to your post.

Who could ask for more? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.

If you want fading go download the . Geez.

That's one reason ASCII is still so well loved, because ASCII fonts can be found *anywhere*.

Does anyone have a good source for free UNICODE fonts?

I did a little searching, and found this and this, which is a start.

The problem is that designing fonts (good fonts) is hard. The difficulty is compounded by the large character set in Unicode. I mean, it takes years, man! :)

- MFN

Exactly, governments should stick to the things they know. And you know what?
Governments/Municipalities are experts at digging up the ground and running pipes and cables: water, gas, electricity, etc. They are already doing that all the time (at least in Europe, maybe not in the US, where everything is outsourced to some company).

So doesn't it make perfect sense to put an additional cable (fiber) into the ground, since they already have the infrastructure for doing just that?
They don't necessarily have to provide the service themselves, they could rent out capacity on the fiber to several companies to actually run the show (phone, internet, etc.).
As a matter of fact, that is exactly the way it's done in some some cities in Germany, like Köln. The result: netcologne, best and cheapest internet and phone service in the whole country...

This is correct. I posted it in February, while the DRI code was released in June.

Normally everyone who sends email to XFree86@XFree86.Org and states "I would like to work on ABC" with "ABC" somewhat more informative than "XFree86" or "drivers" will get an application form within a few days.

That's what I anticipated (and reading this now explicitly from your side doesn't exactly make me feel better :-)

As to the generic issue here, yes, I think that XFree86 should open up its development a bit. And guess what, we will.

Glad to read this. I want to stress here that I don't want you folks to lower your quality criteria, just be more transparent, please. The usual way to do this is having some public forum of discussion. At that time I applied I did not find one.
I don't want to transmit the message that the XFree86 folks are snobs, but rather (as the title of this message suggests) that the Xfree86 could make it easier for people to find out what is going and eventually participate.

The release of the 3.9.x snapshots is a first step in that direction, more will follow.

I would rather be able to follow the developers discussion (and join it on occasion). Without knowing where the project is heading I find it rather useless (for me) to have snapshots, with the exception of analyzing it to find out what is going on. :)

To illustrate that I am not just ranting let me end this post with a link that might be interesting for the BSD crowd:
http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-vanwoma/ riva-glx