Reiver_Fluffi

Sniff........you forgot me: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=47741 Well ok, I only ever made 7 posts.......

I don't think so, IIRC compiz and beryl do not play well with the KDE kicker and window switcher, if you are really struggling for an answer, it might be worth giving the beryl forums a try (that I believe is here, but it isn't displaying for me at the moment)

Nice, what gtk engine/theme is that?

Hmmm, not yer typical rant, not irrational anough, not enough drama! :D Joking aside, some really interesting points from that livejournal article, I was naver a big fan of Suse in the first place though.

IIRC Edgy Eft uses upstart, which might explain why /etc/inittab has changed

Yeah that is a pain, and the fact that the expert installer mucked up my volumes for fedora, rendering my fedora install unusable :huh:

I agree with you in: Using Fedora makes me realise why I like Mandriva so much. I have found that, Mandriva linux is the relatively wide acceptable linux distro among users in Public Services and self-gov.. I essence it is very simple and clear (of course not flawless)in both Installation and Use manners. The average PC users world wide are not IT prof.s. Simply they want to use some apps on home or office computers. Believe me they are the majority. So it is unwise to neglect them, especially if we want to allure them to the Linux world.Thanks. Fahd I wouldn't say that a distro like fedora was for "pro's" only, after all I use it (which is saying something) :D

We should have a smilie for "gob-smacked" for stuff like this :D

To be fair they bring that on themselves, your "donation" (subs) to the club, is set out and seen as a commercial contract by Mandriva, yet you are expected to see it as a donation, and not as a contract, when really it is a binding commercial contract, a fact that cannot be disputed by corporate spin, not very fair is it? This is bad business, and if Mandriva receives any short-comings due to it, then I have no sympathy as it is their own fault. Mandriva is a business built around linux, it is not "linux" itself (note the quotes). Would you happily pay for a half cooked burger and accept it, are the monies you exchanged for said burger...a donation?

I'm with Wakish on this one, there's no real benefit in joining the club, unless you want some extra toys and want to make a donation to the Mandriva Board of Directors

did you run: aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

Yeah we had a joker like that in my previous workplace, although their methods went a bit further, one example was to get the autocomplete in M$ Word to change "the" into any obscenity you desired. :D

Unfortunately I left me gnome session unlocked, my missus took advantage of this and vandalised my desktop........ This is of course how it should have looked:

I wouldn't say that it will never work, at least not in a technical sense, but from the perspective of the users, and their neads in terms of functionality, I do have my doubts. I would like to wish Gael all the best in this venture, the guy has mouths to feed, not helped by Mandriva turning their backs on him like they did, without Gael, the Mandriva fat cats wouldn't be where they are today.

Yeah, but that's not really what the real fuss is about, or the core obective of the project, at least that's how I see it.

IIRC Aluminium is for users that simply join for free, where as Alumi are past subscribers, who have ceased their paid subscription.

Doubt it. No hybrids, and I don't think Novell is looking to be annihilated. As far as the patent agreement, I wonder about it's legality. Unless Novell somehow licenses the patents...and even then, both could get into trouble for anti-trust issues - only allowing one company the rights to patents and not opening it up to other Linux distributions on a fair level, effectively killing the competition? Smells like lawsuit to me. I'd look for Red Hat to call foul on this, and slam MS and Novell. Best to do it in the EU, too, as in the USA they're unlikely to get anywhere. Yeah, it would be interesting to see what the EU's monopolies commision has to say about this, no doubt we will get a commentary soon.

I'm with arctic on this one, the whole concept sounds great, I don't see it meeting much success in practical terms. Enterprise desktops should be efficient, I can't see how this "dumb" terminal idea will work for a full OS. Some web based applications work, some don't, I feel that a web based OS is too big conceptually to be built on an application/server environment. Fair enough, so many years down the line, as technology improves, I would say yes this would work with some success, but not now, at least that's my opinion. Gael had a great innovation with Mandrake back in 1998, and he achieved so much, but that success will be hard to replicate, sometimes the opportunity only comes round once in a lifetime, I can't see this project sustaining the needs of the market today, and I can't see how Gael could maintain it financially until the time when the market needs and can accommodate this concept. JMHO

I see your point, but in the same respect is the problem really with the distro and it's principle to support open technologies, or the hardware vendor for not supporting their hardware on an open platform? After all, IMHO, one of the biggest issues with linux is hardware support and vendors co-operating with the open source community, not which distro provider chooses to ship closed source software within it's official releases as a matter of principle.

Quite harsh to be honest, as jlc said the kernel issue is unfortunately a known bug, and to be honest, you wouldn't be the first person to have ony sort of issues with wireless drivers with any distribution. Most distro's "do" require some work to get them up and running "as intended", why should Fedora be branded a flop for falling into that category. By that logic "all" distro's would be flops :huh:

Yup, I only have a 9550 on my box

How did you get it working? This is my first ati card in my laptop, and um I feel like a noob..... :o Uhm, not really sure, compiz is installed by default, my current xorg.conf is like this: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "800x600" "640x480" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection Althoug, I had to add the modules, Extensions and DRI sections manually. It's quite a basic xorg.conf compared to my fc5 xorg.conf

Thanks for the tip, inserting localhost into the script works. I do wonder if my code example was misleading though, <user> is actually replaced by my username, there's only one other user, and that's my partner, and she doesn't tend to touch scripts at all. I am still curious though as to whether I can get the script to work with the password though. Anyone know what damage "could" be done, if any with a nested X server?

Hey guy, As many of you may be aware, there's a problem with running Java apps while using compiz (or at least at the moment for FC6). Anyway, I have set up sudo to allow my user like this: <user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/Xnest The reason I use no pass is because there's more than one command, and the ampersands screw with the password entry: #!/bin/bash sudo Xnest -ac :1 & export DISPLAY=:1 metacity & <app-name> & The ampersands are necessary for this to work (as far as I know), by using NOPASSWD with Xnest am I leaving myself vulnerable? If so can anyone suggest how to ammend the script to get over the ampersand on line 1 from interfering with the password entry for sudo? Cheers EDIT Wrong forum :unsure:, someone move to other distribs please :D

My spangly new FC6 desktop: