On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:07, Mikael Hallendal wrote: > mån 2002-06-24 klockan 13.40 skrev Bastien Nocera: > > Damn, > > > > forgot to copy the list. > > hehe, I do that all the time :) > > > Like Jeff said, here's esound for example: > > libesd-alsa0 - Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared libraries > > libesd0 - Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries > > OK, great! > > > Why aren't you allowed ? Patents ? > > I think so. Then that's what this repository is all about ;) As long as this repository is not available to people from countries where this patent would apply, we don't have a problem. > > > > * use of devfs, murasaki for hotplug, choice between ext2 and ext3, etc. > > > > (this might be a little too low-level for this discussion i must admit). > > > The user should not be able to choose. Let's just use ext3 and be done > > > with it :) > > > > No, using ext2 has its uses. A journaled filesystem on a laptop is > > pretty bad for the batteries. And it's an easy question to ask. > > It's easy enough to ask, but not to answer :) > Also, using ext3 on a laptop surely has it's goods too. Exactly, that's why you want to give the choice. > > They're pretty straight forward on MacOS X, as you don't have multiple > > kernels and such. just select either MacOS X or MacOS as the startup > > disk, and it just works. We can make this "just" about as easy with > > Debian by using kernel packages. The user would get the choice of the > > kernel version, and that would be it. > > Ah, you are referring to just the grub configuration? grub/lilo/yaboot, etc. yes. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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