Contrary to what many commenters would have you believe, Greenpeace actually took apart these consoles and had the components analysed for hazardous chemicals in a university laboratory.
Speaking of which. Mandriva (it's not called Mandrake any more since years) has released their 2008 Spring distribution two weeks ago and Slashdot didn't even mention it. Yet it's easily as good or better than OpenSUSE or any other distro having a release around this timeframe...
(funny how this has now gone a complete 180) Miguel de Icaza's founding of GNOME to benefit children in his native Mexico. Give the guy a break, will you? Whatever your opinions on the direction of Novell are, de Icaza is still working on Free software that directly benefits children in Mexico and elsewhere in the world.
What you mean I cannot have a preview when selecting an image to attach?!) You can, but it's up to the app to enable this. As a matter of fact, Epiphany 2.22 just gained an image preview in the file chooser.
Mandriva is standardized on KDE, but I wouldn't say it is among the 'major distros', by which it is commonly meant Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu. I guess that depends a bit on which part of the world you live in. Anyhow, Mandriva may default to KDE, but its GNOME offering is second to none.
I crashed a large Epiphany session with a segmentation violation a couple of days ago
Did you file a bug report with bug-buddy and if so, what's the bug number?
Many crashes are due to misbehaving plugins. Due to Mozilla plugin architecture, there's nothing we can do about this. (However, an experimental WebKit back-end was recently added to Epiphany.)
What I find more worrying is the closed source software running the machines and tallying the results, this has to be replaced by an open source system that can be checked by any one.
Just "open sourcing" the voting machine code would create a false sense of security.
How would you know that the binary code running the machine is compiled from the source code you inspected? And even if it is, you'd still have no guarantee that the compiler itself wasn't tampered with.
Mandriva Linux 2007 is the first Mandriva release developed on a 1-year release cycle, which means it has received lots of QA. Having followed the release process quite closely (as close as you can get as a non-employee), I have no doubts about recommending it for anyone to try.
Now you need to be fair here... The Mandriva graphical software installer can set up those online repositories for you with just a few mouse clicks. Easyurpmi is mostly useful for the people who prefer the command line.
Mandriva has a Corporate Server offering with support contracts and all. I haven't tried it myself but wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
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I've got two approaches for you:
1. From Nautilus, press Ctrl+H (show hidden files). Right click.porn and select 'Open with other application'. Select EOG image viewer from the list. (Drawback: now every folder has 'Open with EOG' in the context menu)
2. Launch EOG. File > Open. Right click the file pane, 'Show hidden files'. Select a file. Now press F9 to open the image collection view.
Or you could simply install gqview and be done with it:)
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Ubuntu and Fedora (and derivatives) have nothing like MCC / YaST.
Thank god!!
When I used YaST it took years to do everything(...)
Your experiences with YaST don't tell anything about the efficiency of MCC. I suggest you try it before boasting about how fast your pet distro is.
Before making a final decision, you may want to throw Mandriva into the mix, as their latest release has specific support for the Eee. See a review on http://justingill.com/blog/2008/03/18/mandriva-linux-spring-2008-release-on-the-asus-eee-pc/
I'll throw in a link to the actual study this article is based on:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/playing-dirty
Contrary to what many commenters would have you believe, Greenpeace actually took apart these consoles and had the components analysed for hazardous chemicals in a university laboratory.
If you're so concerned about the extra energy required by the Flash plugin, why do you have it installed in the first place?
Speaking of which. Mandriva (it's not called Mandrake any more since years) has released their 2008 Spring distribution two weeks ago and Slashdot didn't even mention it. Yet it's easily as good or better than OpenSUSE or any other distro having a release around this timeframe...
Windows 3.0 wasn't released until 1990, and back then, GeoWorks and GEM were credible competitors to Windows.
I heard that suggests-functionality has been added to urpmi recently.
Out of curiosity, what would it take for you to consider a bookmark system "robust"?
Many crashes are due to misbehaving plugins. Due to Mozilla plugin architecture, there's nothing we can do about this. (However, an experimental WebKit back-end was recently added to Epiphany.)
That may be true, but then again you may ask yourself if you really need an extension to play an MC Hammer sample when you stop loading a page. Plus, it's pretty easy to write an Epiphany extension in C or Python yourself. No Javascript knowledge required.
Yes, as far as I know disabling it wasn't even an option.
Mandriva Linux 2007 is the first Mandriva release developed on a 1-year release cycle, which means it has received lots of QA. Having followed the release process quite closely (as close as you can get as a non-employee), I have no doubts about recommending it for anyone to try.
Now you need to be fair here... The Mandriva graphical software installer can set up those online repositories for you with just a few mouse clicks. Easyurpmi is mostly useful for the people who prefer the command line.
Mandriva has a Corporate Server offering with support contracts and all. I haven't tried it myself but wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
I've got two approaches for you:
.porn and select 'Open with other application'. Select EOG image viewer from the list. (Drawback: now every folder has 'Open with EOG' in the context menu)
:)
1. From Nautilus, press Ctrl+H (show hidden files). Right click
2. Launch EOG. File > Open. Right click the file pane, 'Show hidden files'. Select a file. Now press F9 to open the image collection view.
Or you could simply install gqview and be done with it
Have you ever heard of central heaters working on natural gas?
Except that the heater is probably a lot more efficient in converting energy into heat than your average electrical appliance.
So you forgot to explain what it did stand for: free from State or Church influence. Obligatory wikipedia link.