Corporate pressure
by Peter Backlund
Hi.
On the subject of distributing free-as-in-beer proprietary software, I
think that the approach Warren has taken towards Macromedia (and that I
tried on Real and Adobe) could be successful. However, if the project
were to be represented by someone more knowledgeable and more
experienced in PR relations etc, we might get a few more (positive)
answers. Two names come immediately into mind: ESR and Alan Cox.
What we want, is of course to have certain pieces of software such as
RealPlayer/HelixPlayer and Acrobat Reader are made available in a
sensibly packaged way, accesible via the standard software management
tools. The community could handle this through the usual
fedora.us/livna.org QA process, and come up with packages that fit into
FC the way they should (menu entries, mime types, stripped bloat,
plugins that work, etc etc). This will increase the number of satisfied
users of both FC and the Real/Adobe products, to _zero cost_ for the
companies in question. So, a few possible scenarios would be:
1. Company X allows free redistribution, similar to the Nvidia driver.
2. X allows limited redistribution, but through yum/apt/up2date, like
Macromedia does.
3. X does not allow redistribution, but can host the community developed
package on their own site.
I think it's worth a shot at least. So, any big name takers? ESR? Alan?
someone(a)redhat.com?
/Peter
20 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20040209 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
kudzu-1.1.41-1
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* Thu Jan 29 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.1.41-1
- switch some behaviors on 2.4 vs 2.6
* Fri Dec 05 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.40-1
- write out install/remove instead of post-install/pre-remove for modprobe.conf
* Fri Nov 21 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.1.39-1
- pci domain support
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20040209
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20 years, 3 months
Re: qt-3.3 and QTDIR
by Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Any chance of seeing qt-3.3 in FC2? It's -dlopen-opengl option looks
> promising for improving prelinking...
>
> While we're on the subject, redhat's/fedora's default QTDIR has been
> /usr/lib/qt-3.x for awhile now, which causes at least a small amount of
> upgrade pain whenever x changes. Is there any good reason (anymore) to
> not put all qt-3.x installs in a common directory, say something like
> /usr/lib/qt3?
FYI,
RFE: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115297
-- Rex
20 years, 3 months
Self-Introduction: Zoltan Kota
by Zoltan Kota
1. Full legal name
Zoltan Kota
2. Country, City
Hungary, Szeged
Germany, Goettingen (until the end of 2004)
3. Profession or Student status
Chemist (+ sysadm in the group)
4. Company or School
Biological Research Centre, Szeged
Max-Planck Institute, Goettingen
5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
I want to see pybliographer in Fedora. It's a nice program for handling
bibliographic databases. I think there is a need for such a program, since
more and more people (eg. scientists) want to do publishing using Linux.
6. Historical qualifications
* What other projects have you worked on in the past?
I've been involved in the development of pybliographer. I'm working
mainly on the documentation and rpm packaging.
* What computer languages and other skills do you know?
I have worked with bash, perl, python, and C (a bit);
php, html, xml.
* Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
I have been using Linux since '97, and I really would like it to provide
every tools you may need in everyday work.
7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
pub 1024D/2416EC5C 2004-02-10 Zoltan Kota (Friend of penguins) <z.kota(a)gmx.net>
Key fingerprint = 7910 EC8E E4C4 38CC E4D2 4D66 E83E 2A0B 2416 EC5C
sub 1024g/4D195F21 2004-02-10 [expires: 2006-02-09]
Zoli
20 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20040210 changes
by Build System
Removed package sndconfig
Removed package sndconfig
Updated Packages:
anaconda-9.90-6
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* Fri Feb 06 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- built new version from CVS
* Thu Nov 06 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- require booty (#109272)
* Tue Oct 08 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- back to mainstream rpm instead of rpm404
kudzu-1.1.43-1
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* Fri Feb 06 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.1.43-1
- add patch for smartarray/dac960 devices (<katzj(a)redhat.com>)
* Wed Feb 04 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.1.42-1
- fix segfault on CLASS_NETWORK devices with no device set (#106332)
- fix various network device naming snafus (#114611, #113418)
nss_ldap-207-6
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 207-6
- rebuild
* Thu Nov 20 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 207-5
- fix objectclass and attribute mapping, which failed due to uninitialized
fields in mapping index structures, fixed upstream in 210 (#110547)
* Mon Nov 10 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 207-4
- link with the proper libsasl (1 or 2) for the version of OpenLDAP we
are linking with (#106801)
pam_krb5-2.0.5-1
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* Fri Oct 10 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.0.4-1
- update to 2.0.4
* Fri Sep 19 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.0.3-1
- update to 2.0.3
* Fri Sep 05 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.0.2-1
- update to 2.0.2
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20040210
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20 years, 3 months
Keyboard NumLock
by Dax Kelson
I know this has come up on a number of occasions and heaven knows I've
seen student after student bang there head against this.
I've been inspecting SUSE closely for a project and I that they do the
"right thing".
On SUSE the default /etc/syconfig/keyboard file has the following:
# NumLock on? ("yes", or "no" or empty or "bios" for BIOS setting)
KBD_NUMLOCK="bios"
Could we have something like this in RH?
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
20 years, 3 months
Way OT: Redhat addresses caught by My ISP mail scanner
by Jim Cornette
This is really off topic, but a concern I would like to see if it could
be corrected.
The message header that my ISP scanner caught was from several Redhat
addresses (bogus, I realize)
The header contained this information <excerpt> on the virus screened
mail. I usually just delete the message and move on. Since it came from
this list, shortly after I posted the messed up modprobe.conf file. I
think that a clue might be someone infiltrating through the web
interface or is still an active subscriber.
Maybe your log files can determine if the perpretrator was doing
something during the time or if the messages are being intercepted,
contents changed or whatever.
sorry for the way off topic post.
Jim
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