Mindshare is important, you need it to get an influx of developers which you need to keep up with the growth of the distribution. Personally I believe Ubuntu has been both detrimental and helpful to Debian (and FOSS in general).
Speaking as one of the people who packaged it for Debian, and now has upstream commit access, synfig has lots of crash bugs and other bugs. Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.
Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.
Not that we need war but...
I wouldn't mind seeing the day that that combat suit absorbs solar energy, gravity, air pressure etc & converts the used fuel back into methanol.
Just for the coolness factor.
Oh &
"It uses a ***proprietary*** catalyst to produce hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels"
>an attempt to make a piece of software to model biological systems
See bioinformatics.org (they use sourceforge) for more.
E-CELL is one http://bioinformatics.org/e-cell/
The bit where he talks about the "book of the future" seems to ignore the impracticality of having to have a power source in the book.
That is unless that when you open the book the dark areas that would probably be words/etc start to generate power using teeny solar cells. Now that would be neat.
Frankly IMHO they are taking the wrong approach by integrating electornic circuits into this e-paper stuff.
The main application I see for e-paper is where data on paper is extremely temporary like printing assignments/reports for school/uni/the boss.
Here is a rant I wrote in 1999 before I even knew about the efforts at Xerox & E Ink
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Fuck that, people who work in the classified world should just quit their jobs. Who's side are you on?
https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dymaxion/
Please come join us on the #debian-mobile IRC channel on OFTC. We would like to make Debian on tablets, handsets and other devices a reality.
Ubuntu probably includes a newer kernel than Debian. We'll be adding a newer kernel in lenny-and-a-half.
Python 2.6 wasn't released when the freeze for Debian lenny began. I'm sure there will be backports as soon as it gets into testing/squeeze.
Mindshare is important, you need it to get an influx of developers which you need to keep up with the growth of the distribution. Personally I believe Ubuntu has been both detrimental and helpful to Debian (and FOSS in general).
It was also mentioned on the dev announce list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00002.html
IIRC you need to use jigdo to assemble them from the packages. This page hints at that:
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/
TS3 will be probably released before squeeze, we still have no shortage of names.
The Debian KDE team would love any help people can give, perhaps from Kubuntu guys!
Speaking as one of the people who packaged it for Debian, and now has upstream commit access, synfig has lots of crash bugs and other bugs. Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.
http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/ [synfig.com]
http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap [synfig.com] (not decided on or posted yet)
Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.
http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/
http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap (not decided on or posted yet)
I would rather live in a place where people have no concept of money & do stuff for the good of everyone.
Dunno how well it would work though
Not that we need war but...
I wouldn't mind seeing the day that that combat suit absorbs solar energy, gravity, air pressure etc & converts the used fuel back into methanol.
Just for the coolness factor.
Oh &
"It uses a ***proprietary*** catalyst to produce hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels"
>an attempt to make a piece of software to model biological systems
See bioinformatics.org (they use sourceforge) for more.
E-CELL is one http://bioinformatics.org/e-cell/
The bit where he talks about the "book of the future" seems to ignore the impracticality of having to have a power source in the book. That is unless that when you open the book the dark areas that would probably be words/etc start to generate power using teeny solar cells. Now that would be neat.
Frankly IMHO they are taking the wrong approach by integrating electornic circuits into this e-paper stuff.
The main application I see for e-paper is where data on paper is extremely temporary like printing assignments/reports for school/uni/the boss.
Here is a rant I wrote in 1999 before I even knew about the efforts at Xerox & E Ink