The Gnome Documentation Project is also looking for people. In fact, pretty much every largish project in the free software world seems to be looking for documentors.
Maybe there should be an n-monthly day on which spam-filters are disabled. That way the public may realize the extent of the spam problem. Can you expect that they know it when they only get a few spams because all the rest is blocked at the server?
Debian would rather you didn't download the ISO's, in favor of Jigdo. However, I prefer ISO's.
That's the point of Jigdo. It downloads all packages from different servers and builds an ISO on your own machine. Jigdo-created ISO are bit-for-bit identical with the official released images.
Rocks-N-Diamonds contains sound, graphics and level data which
violate
section 2.3 of the Debian policy manual. Some of the
game content originates with commercial sources that have not
provided explicit permission for their reuse.
Bug #210233 has more information, but the bug tracking system is still down. It probably just means that levels, graphics and/or music have been illegally copied from commercial games, which is a pretty common problem with open source games.
You can use ftps (ftp with ssl). It does encrypted authentication, and encrypted data transfer is optional. However, few ftp servers and clients support it, as there's really no good reason to use it when you've got ssh.
The most benefit will most likely come from the 8 extra general purpose registers the amd64 cpus have. The x86 has always been a register-starved architecture, and adding a few will result in a lot less register saving/restoring overhead. That alone will seriously increase performance.
It may be that most media players can't deal with it, but the AVI format certainly supports multiple audio tracks, and it always has, as Google confirms. BTW, have you looked at MOV (QuickTime)? It's better than AVI, and it is better known than the other formats you list.
Hmmmm... maybe this is why Microsoft does exactly the same thing with Windows..... Nah. It must be because they are "evil".
Because you can't get rid of Internet Explorer in Windows. If you don't like Epiphany, you can delete it and use Firebird or Konqueror or whatever instead, and Gnome will keep working.
If I could actually get gnome to realise that when I tell it I want to use window manager 'foo', that I actually *do* want to use it, that would be half the battle.
Hmm, I've never had problems with that. In theory, you just have to stop the running window manager and start the new one. Usually that translates to 'killall metacity; openbox&'.
If a window manager has broken session support (openbox, I look at you), you'll also have to add it to the startup programs list, in the "Sessions" control applet. That's a rather hidden away, but normally you only need it for broken software, so it doesn't bother me too much.
No way to edge-flip to another desktop.
Thus no d'n'd windows across desktops. Pager sucks for this at 16x12.
Metacity? Feh. Bring back sawfish (and I mean updated!). The introduction of predictability has led to a sharp decrease in customisability.
You can run any window manager that supports the EMWH (aka NetWM) spec. Metacity is a decent default for most users, but if it's not good enough for you, feel free to choose something else. Sawfish, fluxbox, openbox, kwm, waimea, even the venerable fvwm. Lots of choice.
GNU Barcode. Works from the command line, supports several standards, and generates PostScript and PCL. Also has a library that can be embedded in your own applications. We've used it on a smallish scale and had no problems with it.
We need to make a game where people jump off a cliff and kill them selves to finally clean out the shallow end of the gene pool?
Yep. See Stair Dismount and Truck Dismount.
The problem here is that the protocols simply don't work as well as they should. We don't have a way to know who is behaving honestly and who is not. That is a protocol bug. It is fixable but only if we face up to the fact that we need to fix it and get the email providers to deploy whatever changes are necessary.
Indeed! It's a constant source of annoyance for me that no Linux software implements RFC 3512. We really need an evil bit.
How about code first and manifestos later, or is every project going to be like Debian?
Debian is a bad example in this case:) Debian was started in 1993 (in fact, yesterday it's tenth birth day was celebrated), but things like their Social Contract, Constitution, etc were written somewhere between 96 en 98, as the project started to grow.
Oh my. Linking to the wiki from slashdot was a dumb idea. I hope that wiki has a revision control system somewhere behind the scenes. Or maybe somebody still has the pages in their browser cache. Sorry, xwin guys:p
On (very recently created) Xouvier page on the Xwin wiki, somebody made the following comment:
Shoud have added the following to the list: An attempt by corporate influences and the forces behind GNOME development to integrate technologies related to GNOME directly into the X server, providing an advantage to GNOME over all other window managers. In addition, much of the planning of this fork has been done in secret despite the supposed "openness" proclaimed by the team, and only recently has even the name of the fork been shared with the public. An overall damaging and irresponsible influence on Linux, and the open source community as a whole.
The XWin wiki doesn't seem to keep a history of changes, so I don't know who wrote that and how credible this is. I certainly hope it isn't true, it would do a lot of damage to Gnome.
What kind of a name is Xouvert?
Xouvert is named after the ancient Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooden digging implements, and moonlight. A notorious ritual among the higher levels of Freemasonry has kept her memory alive until now. Xouvert, awake!
Or maybe, just maybe, "ouvert" is the French word for "open". Bunch of wankers.
As far as I know, only the Matrox G400 card has good hardware render accelaration. NVidia's support is still experimental and rather poor. Render is still considered experimental, and speed is not yet considered to be very important. Full accelerated support is planned for XFree86 5.
As I've understood it (and I'm probably misinformed) Debian needs all packages in a release to be stable before issuing a new stable release. With thousands of packages that's a lot of work.
No, it isn't that bad:) Only the core system needs to be stable (stable means "no release critical bugs" here). If other packages have serieus bugs, they just get dropped from the release. So all those packages don't cause serieus delays.
Slashdot Mirror
The Gnome Documentation Project is also looking for people. In fact, pretty much every largish project in the free software world seems to be looking for documentors.
If I'm going to get a good, simple answer that puts money in our pockets for our work, it will be here.
Yep: get a lawyer. Also, don't ask for legal advice on Slashdot.
Debian has never shipped Netscape 4, it being non-free and all...
Maybe there should be an n-monthly day on which spam-filters are disabled. That way the public may realize the extent of the spam problem. Can you expect that they know it when they only get a few spams because all the rest is blocked at the server?
Will you please do my job for me?
Debian would rather you didn't download the ISO's, in favor of Jigdo. However, I prefer ISO's.
That's the point of Jigdo. It downloads all packages from different servers and builds an ISO on your own machine. Jigdo-created ISO are bit-for-bit identical with the official released images.
You can use ftps (ftp with ssl). It does encrypted authentication, and encrypted data transfer is optional. However, few ftp servers and clients support it, as there's really no good reason to use it when you've got ssh.
The most benefit will most likely come from the 8 extra general purpose registers the amd64 cpus have. The x86 has always been a register-starved architecture, and adding a few will result in a lot less register saving/restoring overhead. That alone will seriously increase performance.
It may be that most media players can't deal with it, but the AVI format certainly supports multiple audio tracks, and it always has, as Google confirms. BTW, have you looked at MOV (QuickTime)? It's better than AVI, and it is better known than the other formats you list.
Hmmmm... maybe this is why Microsoft does exactly the same thing with Windows..... Nah. It must be because they are "evil".
Because you can't get rid of Internet Explorer in Windows. If you don't like Epiphany, you can delete it and use Firebird or Konqueror or whatever instead, and Gnome will keep working.
Try to install XP without IE.
If I could actually get gnome to realise that when I tell it I want to use window manager 'foo', that I actually *do* want to use it, that would be half the battle.
Hmm, I've never had problems with that. In theory, you just have to stop the running window manager and start the new one. Usually that translates to 'killall metacity; openbox&'.
If a window manager has broken session support (openbox, I look at you), you'll also have to add it to the startup programs list, in the "Sessions" control applet. That's a rather hidden away, but normally you only need it for broken software, so it doesn't bother me too much.
No way to edge-flip to another desktop.
You can run any window manager that supports the EMWH (aka NetWM) spec. Metacity is a decent default for most users, but if it's not good enough for you, feel free to choose something else. Sawfish, fluxbox, openbox, kwm, waimea, even the venerable fvwm. Lots of choice.Thus no d'n'd windows across desktops. Pager sucks for this at 16x12.
Metacity? Feh. Bring back sawfish (and I mean updated!). The introduction of predictability has led to a sharp decrease in customisability.
GNU Barcode. Works from the command line, supports several standards, and generates PostScript and PCL. Also has a library that can be embedded in your own applications. We've used it on a smallish scale and had no problems with it.
We need to make a game where people jump off a cliff and kill them selves to finally clean out the shallow end of the gene pool? Yep. See Stair Dismount and Truck Dismount.
Boids are fun, and used in Batman Returns, The Lion King and a lot of other movies to simulate flocks and flock-like things.
Indeed! It's a constant source of annoyance for me that no Linux software implements RFC 3512. We really need an evil bit.
Maybe this will answer some of your questions.
Debian is a bad example in this case :) Debian was started in 1993 (in fact, yesterday it's tenth birth day was celebrated), but things like their Social Contract, Constitution, etc were written somewhere between 96 en 98, as the project started to grow.
Oh my. Linking to the wiki from slashdot was a dumb idea. I hope that wiki has a revision control system somewhere behind the scenes. Or maybe somebody still has the pages in their browser cache. Sorry, xwin guys :p
Ok, apparently there's nothing true to it. Phew :)
As far as I know, only the Matrox G400 card has good hardware render accelaration. NVidia's support is still experimental and rather poor. Render is still considered experimental, and speed is not yet considered to be very important. Full accelerated support is planned for XFree86 5.
As I've understood it (and I'm probably misinformed) Debian needs all packages in a release to be stable before issuing a new stable release. With thousands of packages that's a lot of work.
No, it isn't that bad :) Only the core system needs to be stable (stable means "no release critical bugs" here). If other packages have serieus bugs, they just get dropped from the release. So all those packages don't cause serieus delays.