Such as... smoking and drinking? Oh, but addictive substances like alcohol and tobacco are for sale all over the world, so you probably mean something else.
In case you were referring to the semi-legal status that marijuana enjoys in The Netherlands: that substance isn't physically addictive (though mental problems may occur with heavy usage), and furthermore The Netherlands has one of the lowest percentages of drug addicts. Draw your own conclusions!
Update urpmi's list of available packages:
urpmi.update -a
Upgrade all installed packages with upgrades available:
urpmi --auto-select --update
A slight error: the --update parameter makes sure that only important security fixes are selected. Leaving it out and just giving --auto-select will choose really all available updates.
Let me add that urpmi in Cooker combines urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select into one command: urpmi --auto-update
Get information on installed package:
rpm -qi package
A nitpick, but the same effect can be attained by giving urpmq -i package
while others (Mandriva-specific?) are in English. Looks like i18n isn't finished yet,
Not saying that i18n in Mandriva is perfect (it isn't), but as the person who volunteers to coordinate the Dutch translations for Mandriva, I can guarantee you that the Mandriva specific utilities have been translated properly in the 2006 release.
Mandriva may use KDE as a default but offers a well-polished and stable GNOME environment (and a bunch of other desktops) as well, just a few mouseclicks away. They employ developers that work on both "big" desktops, too.
Firefox uses GTK for some primitive drawing functions, and is able to use the theme engines from GTK themes, but the real GUI toolkit used is XUL. The difference is clearly visible in the behaviour, spacing & alignment etc. of various widgets.
Firefox is no closer to GNOME than, say, OpenOffice.org.
I've settled on certain apps, regardless of desktop: I use KMail and Akregator even on Gnome, for instance, and Firefox even on KDE.
By all means, use a mix of apps that you prefer most, but you seem to imply that Firefox is a GNOME application, which it isn't. The GNOME web browser is Epiphany.
The last release of Mandriva that I used (LE 2005) was really slow to boot, and my kids complained.
If boot speed is the problem, you should really try Mandriva 2006 first before completely migrating. Booting time is one of the special strong points of this release.
So the no-proprietary-content and free ubuntu does what you would have to pay to do using mandriva.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the hardware recognition in Ubuntu might have been better in this specific case. I don't believe that Mandriva includes any non-proprietary drivers in the Club edition that aren't shipped with the Free edition.
Too bad they kept Openoffice.org 2 out of their latest free release, saving it for the club members.
The key word here is support. Mandriva 2006 had a release schedule. Had they included OO.o2, they would have had to support a hardly tested pre-release version of it for years to come. They've been bitten before by including RC-quality software (KDE 2.99 iirc) and I think it's very understandable they don't want such a disaster to happen again.
Yes, OO.o2 is now available on the Club, but it is still unsupported.
and now, they have subscriber support only for some wifi cards.
It is possible that Ubuntu recognized your wifi card out of the box and Mandriva didn't, but that certainly isn't because of "subscriber support only". All Free drivers are included with the download edition, proprietary stuff is either in the boxed set or available with a Mandriva Club membership.
Now it's to the point where standard members can't even download the full set of CD images for their $60 yearly membership fees.
Of course, the fact that you can download any missing packages by adding a random public FTP mirror to your urpmi media makes that a non-issue.
Luckily, seerofsouls.org has working RPM's, but needing to depend on a third party to provide core components of the distribution is not exactly ideal.
A version of X.org that works with your graphics card, too, is included in the distro updates that are downloaded right during the installation procedure. Have you tried running MandrivaUpdate?
even Mandriva has more detail on enterprise support offerings, phone numbers for all their local offerings, and a sales phone number that you can call and ask about their offerings. I don't hear any of you guys pushing them into the enterprise.
Tell your friend he may select his language of choice in gdm (the display manager, that shows the username/password fields), and that he can set the LANGUAGE environment variable to some language code for individual apps if he wants.
His distro might offer alternative ways of switching languages.
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The outcry over "spatial mode" nautilus at least caused changes to make it easy to select the former behavior. If gnome-screensaver doesn't regain some of the configurability xscreensaver had, I certainly won't use gnome-screensaver, and am liable to look for alternatives to GNOME period.
Would you care to explain how gnome-screensaver stops xscreensaver from working?
I guess Gnome users are still stuck with Firefox, or at least I don't know of anything else that's better than it.
In the the current development version of Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, the adblock extension is stable and working. Using CSS-based ad blocking has been possible for a long time even with older Epiphany versions, although it requires a bit of manual work to edit the relevant userContent.css file.
more people die from coal (directly and indirectly) power plants (which also release a lot of radiation) every year han have died in the history of nuclear power plants.
It seems it has to be stated again in every energy-related discussion; but lots of European power plants run on natural gas, not coal.
Of course this we will run out of this fossil fuel too at some point, but gas is a much cleaner energy source to burn than coal. It shouldn't be portrayed as if the choice is between dirty coals and clean nuclear power.
Don't forget the fossil fuel needed to get uranium from the soil, either...
OS/2 Warp was pre-installed on the machines from large retailers (typically Escom or Vobis). This was almost one year before Windows 95 was released. We all know how that story ended.
OK, the configuration of OS/2 on those machines (often 486DX2 with 4MB of RAM) was particularly crappy, sharing a FAT partition with DOS and Windows 3.1, but all I'm saying is that pre-installation doesn't imply mass adoption yet.
with the recent progress of GTK for Mac, though, perhaps soon the standard Unix version of OO would feel less awkward to use.
Don't know how often this will have to be reiterated but... OO.o is not using and has never used GTK. It is using its own cross platform toolkit called VCL, originally developed in the early nineties to have a cross platform GUI library for OS/2 and UNIX.
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Such as... smoking and drinking? Oh, but addictive substances like alcohol and tobacco are for sale all over the world, so you probably mean something else.
In case you were referring to the semi-legal status that marijuana enjoys in The Netherlands: that substance isn't physically addictive (though mental problems may occur with heavy usage), and furthermore The Netherlands has one of the lowest percentages of drug addicts. Draw your own conclusions!
urpmi --auto-update A nitpick, but the same effect can be attained by giving
urpmq -i package
Yes, but only in the paid-for boxed / Mandriva Club edition. The Free (downloadable) edition does not have it.
Mandriva may use KDE as a default but offers a well-polished and stable GNOME environment (and a bunch of other desktops) as well, just a few mouseclicks away. They employ developers that work on both "big" desktops, too.
That could be the case because up until 2.14, Gedit could open, but not save over VFS. This shortcoming has been fixed in the latest release.
I fail to see how that differs from the current situation.
Firefox uses GTK for some primitive drawing functions, and is able to use the theme engines from GTK themes, but the real GUI toolkit used is XUL. The difference is clearly visible in the behaviour, spacing & alignment etc. of various widgets.
Firefox is no closer to GNOME than, say, OpenOffice.org.
By all means, use a mix of apps that you prefer most, but you seem to imply that Firefox is a GNOME application, which it isn't. The GNOME web browser is Epiphany.
If boot speed is the problem, you should really try Mandriva 2006 first before completely migrating. Booting time is one of the special strong points of this release.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the hardware recognition in Ubuntu might have been better in this specific case. I don't believe that Mandriva includes any non-proprietary drivers in the Club edition that aren't shipped with the Free edition.
The key word here is support. Mandriva 2006 had a release schedule. Had they included OO.o2, they would have had to support a hardly tested pre-release version of it for years to come. They've been bitten before by including RC-quality software (KDE 2.99 iirc) and I think it's very understandable they don't want such a disaster to happen again.
Yes, OO.o2 is now available on the Club, but it is still unsupported.
It is possible that Ubuntu recognized your wifi card out of the box and Mandriva didn't, but that certainly isn't because of "subscriber support only". All Free drivers are included with the download edition, proprietary stuff is either in the boxed set or available with a Mandriva Club membership.
Of course, the fact that you can download any missing packages by adding a random public FTP mirror to your urpmi media makes that a non-issue.
A version of X.org that works with your graphics card, too, is included in the distro updates that are downloaded right during the installation procedure. Have you tried running MandrivaUpdate?
Really? I wonder why. Mandriva has some interesting enterprise products.
Tell your friend he may select his language of choice in gdm (the display manager, that shows the username/password fields), and that he can set the LANGUAGE environment variable to some language code for individual apps if he wants.
His distro might offer alternative ways of switching languages.
Of course this we will run out of this fossil fuel too at some point, but gas is a much cleaner energy source to burn than coal. It shouldn't be portrayed as if the choice is between dirty coals and clean nuclear power.
Don't forget the fossil fuel needed to get uranium from the soil, either...
OS/2 Warp was pre-installed on the machines from large retailers (typically Escom or Vobis). This was almost one year before Windows 95 was released. We all know how that story ended.
OK, the configuration of OS/2 on those machines (often 486DX2 with 4MB of RAM) was particularly crappy, sharing a FAT partition with DOS and Windows 3.1, but all I'm saying is that pre-installation doesn't imply mass adoption yet.
Is this still the case with the latest releases? Can you give any relevant bugzilla links?