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by bkor 14y ago
Show some respect and you'll get respect back. Yes, I've used it in a VM. Yes, I know about arm and so on. Suggest to focus more on being nicer towards others, less about questioning things where the answer can easily be found. If you're no
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by bkor 14y ago
There are only 2 people of Red Hat on the GNOME release team (team is 9 at the moment). But yeah, due to the sheer amount of manpower that Red Hat spends on maintaining various software projects, their influence of course is pretty great. B
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by bkor 14y ago
We actually asked for feedback to distributions various times. We would've made a decision earlier but e.g. OpenBSD would have problems. Also this time there has NOT been any official announcement yet. What we do is mostly in the open, so t
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by bkor 14y ago
We did no such thing. Speaking on behalf of GNOME (and yes, I can! :P)
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by bkor 14y ago
I have followed GNOME since almost the start. Helped out since 2005. I help out out because it is fun. I know a very large group of people and everything I do is appreciated. User community for me is Mageia, where I help out as well. The th
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by bkor 14y ago
I was part of the decision. I'm not sure if you get the concept of volunteers. My influence and decision abilities is not based on "company ideas" as you seem to think. Meaning: I wasn't hired, I cannot be fired.
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by bkor 14y ago
llvmpipe in case VMware doesn't do 3D accelleration.
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by bkor 14y ago
Allan Day is not a developer. The blog didn't quote any GTK+ developer or maintainer.
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by bkor 14y ago
Allan Day is a designer, not a developer. Obviously he's not involved in GTK+ development. It is true that GTK+ is not much tested on any other theme than the default theme, but that is a matter of focus and lack of manpower. IMO easier to
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by bkor 14y ago
You can write GTK+ in pretty much any language, so if it was painful, you chose the wrong one.
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Happy 15th Birthday GNOME(happybirthdaygnome.org)
2 points by bkor 14y ago|0 comments
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by bkor 14y ago
I fail to see the problem. Either something is portable, or something is not. It is basically up to the developer. If not being portable means way less time spent on development, then some people might choose that. Good for them.
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by bkor 14y ago
One great benefit to stability is the amount of users. Sysvinit was different in every distribution. With systemd, almost everything is shared. This results in way more users and developers looking at systemd. As a result, less bugs.
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by bkor 14y ago
Systemd on opensuse as well as Mageia is pretty damn reliable. It is not 'test bed'. Various distributions have been using this. As a result, there are way less differences now between distributions. Which means configuration becomes easier
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by bkor 14y ago
Dependency problems on Red Hat? News to me, and I admin various RHEL servers. I do know that there were issues maybe 10+ years ago. Bringing things up that were solved 10+ years ago is a bit pointless. Also regarding your systemd summary is
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DEFCON: Why Conference Harassment Matters(blogher.com)
10 points by bkor 14y ago|2 comments
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by bkor 14y ago
This news was initially announced by Phoronix. Later other people added interesting things that were left out by Phoronix. E.g. that the change for one was to push for support for xz compressed archives. That support has quickly gone throug
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by bkor 14y ago
XDG is a freedesktop standard. Meaning: checking that standard on OS X is a bit strange.
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by bkor 14y ago
Not allowing your name to be used is quite normal. Company I know doesn't allow other companies to show that they have that company as a customer. Reason for that is branding. The other company is basically advertising using the name of ano
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by bkor 14y ago
You can do the same in GNOME.
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by bkor 14y ago
Dbus, PolicyKit and NetworkManager were already used in GNOME 2.x days. I don't really see how you're quoting this as a good example of why GNOME doesn't "get it", while the situation is exactly the same as 2.x.
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by bkor 14y ago
I don't get what you mean. GNOME 3? A new project was started; mutter and gnome-shell. You say that starting a new project is better than dumping other projects. So I guess you want people not only to start something new, but also keep main
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by bkor 14y ago
PulseAudio is used by almost all distributions and GNOME settled on it. ESD was not used by all distributions, furthermore it had bugs and wasn't maintained. Also, Gstreamer is not the same as PulseAudio.
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by bkor 14y ago
The number of commits always pick up before a major release and drop off afterwards. If you try to conclude anything from your analysis, please be a bit thorough!
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by bkor 14y ago
Did you actually look at the commits? They're releasing new versions, but the amount of commits is very low. It seems pretty limited to running source code through lint, updated translations and fixing typo's in stuff that was changed. Anyw
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by bkor 14y ago
In the Netherlands you can watch it via NOS. They have explanations for how to watch it on your pc, mobile, tv, radio, twitter/fb. See http://nos.nl/os2012/volg-de-spelen/ . To watch on your pc, they partnered with Youtube Live: http://ww
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by bkor 14y ago
I think you're mixing up things. I contribute to GNOME, and that is not "working for free". It means having a fun hobby. If I'd get money for it, it would no longer be a hobby, but work. I did hear some people say that their hobby is the sa
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by bkor 14y ago
GPL does not strictly require copyright. I'd prefer if for software, the only possibility was something similar to GPL v3+. Meaning: instead of copyright as it is known know, the law contains the terms of the GPL. So for any software you mu
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by bkor 14y ago
You're focussing on one thing, while ignoring the main message.
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by bkor 14y ago
Mageia and Mandriva can handle that just fine.

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