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04.20.09

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 19th, 2009 – Part 1

Posted in IRC Logs at 1:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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schestowitz tacone: expect a bad week for Microsoft next week Apr 19 00:00
schestowitz They must give shareholder a roadmap Apr 19 00:00
schestowitz Be it a new product, lawsuits, whatever… Apr 19 00:00
schestowitz As it stands, they can either pull out VIsta7 right now when it’s as buggy as hell Apr 19 00:01
tacone did you post about the mail from Linus Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz Then see no sales Apr 19 00:01
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schestowitz Or wait another year, as planned Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz Which means anohter draught in sales. Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz and they have not reolved the netbooks problem, either. Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz *Resolved Apr 19 00:01
seller_liar This world gets me tired ! Apr 19 00:01
MinceR oh, trials from investors Apr 19 00:01
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MinceR that would be nice. Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz tacone: in IRC I sort of did Apr 19 00:01
schestowitz You can look it up. Hold on. Apr 19 00:02
seller_liar It’s very close the day which I will teach my philosophy Apr 19 00:02
schestowitz seller_liar: MSFT is doing badly Apr 19 00:03
schestowitz Profit to drive sharply Apr 19 00:04
seller_liar schestowitz: Final coutdown for microsoft! Apr 19 00:04
schestowitz But it doesn’t resolve the overall problem Apr 19 00:04
schestowitz There’s trouble beyond MSFT Apr 19 00:04
schestowitz Maybe they can put Ballmer on top of GM or Chvron or something Apr 19 00:04
seller_liar I know , IBM ,crapple and others like nike and coca-cola company Apr 19 00:04
schestowitz Where he can crush people physically. Apr 19 00:04
schestowitz seller_liar: maybe Google too Apr 19 00:05
schestowitz We don’t know yet, though Apr 19 00:05
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seller_liar My philosohpy will change everything Apr 19 00:05
seller_liar schestowitz: It’s not a joke Apr 19 00:05
seller_liar We need port banshee to python Apr 19 00:06
seller_liar Are there c# to python converter? Apr 19 00:06
tacone lol Apr 19 00:06
shreddar I read the comes petition and the ECIS finalversion PDF’s as well as MS’s annual report “issues and uncertainties” they all seem to point to Microsoft being very savy in cutting off competition at even the most obscure possibilities of competition. Apr 19 00:07
_Hicham_ sellar_liar : still thinking about banshee? Apr 19 00:07
schestowitz “Microsoft has been has been ordered to pay $388m after being found guilty of infringing a patent held by anti-piracy software developer Uniloc.” http://www.americanchronicle.com… Apr 19 00:07
schestowitz Go on, Microsoft. Go for sw pats :-) Apr 19 00:07
tacone port banshee is no sense Apr 19 00:07
_Hicham_ fuck banshee Apr 19 00:08
_Hicham_ fuck mono Apr 19 00:08
_Hicham_ who needs them? Apr 19 00:08
schestowitz shreddar: yes, did you see Comes vs Microsoft? Apr 19 00:08
schestowitz shreddar: see the Wiki. Apr 19 00:08
tacone so crank up and scream on your bansheeee Apr 19 00:08
schestowitz http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/in… Apr 19 00:08
tacone linux sets you freeee Apr 19 00:08
schestowitz Esp. http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index… Apr 19 00:08
seller_liar We need a replacement for rhythmbox Apr 19 00:09
_Hicham_ sellar_liar : go write it Apr 19 00:09
tacone exhaile ? Apr 19 00:09
tacone you’d better to contribute to that, or fork it. Apr 19 00:09
schestowitz tacone: LOL … Linux sets you fre Apr 19 00:09
schestowitz Novell puts a bad face on Linux users… Apr 19 00:09
_Hicham_ I don’t use anything but Audacious Apr 19 00:09
tacone “free as in your butt ™” Apr 19 00:09
_Hicham_ Novell taints the community Apr 19 00:09
tacone http://www.stefanoforenza.com/… Apr 19 00:10
schestowitz LOL Apr 19 00:10
schestowitz “No ifs, no butts” Apr 19 00:10
seller_liar Yes , exaile can be a good replacement too, but still incomplete Apr 19 00:10
tacone i copyrighted the tag. beware, be very ware :-) Apr 19 00:10
silentivm i’m happy with Music Player Daemon (MPD) Apr 19 00:10
schestowitz look at us fighting among outselves to get rid of infections Apr 19 00:10
schestowitz That’s what MS wanted Apr 19 00:10
*amarsh04 still wants a replacement for xmms version 1.2 – realtime priority, plays all audio formats whilst using a small fraction of a PII-266 cpu power and supports MIDI output to soundcards with on-board MIDI synthesisers Apr 19 00:11
schestowitz If we don’t remove the infection then it pulls a TomTom Apr 19 00:11
schestowitz Let’s conin something Apr 19 00:11
schestowitz Like “pull a TomTom” Apr 19 00:11
amarsh04 I’ve recompiled xmms 1.2 a few times since Debian stopped supporting it Apr 19 00:11
schestowitz Meaning, “planting some software in rivals and suing them when it’s too deep in there” Apr 19 00:11
tacone like pull the finger ? Apr 19 00:11
schestowitz If we say that Mono is “pulling a TomTom” then people will understand Apr 19 00:11
tacone you take the mono and they fart ? Apr 19 00:12
schestowitz And maybe associate Mono with risk of lawsuit from a lying SCO-like company Apr 19 00:12
_Hicham_ Audacious just rocks Apr 19 00:12
seller_liar Banshee converted to python is not banshee anymore Apr 19 00:12
schestowitz tacone: too far, I think Apr 19 00:12
_Hicham_ Audacious is Winamp in Linux world Apr 19 00:12
tacone that was not serious. Apr 19 00:12
schestowitz seller_liar: but Novell controls Banshee Apr 19 00:12
schestowitz I think it ‘bought’ the dev Apr 19 00:13
amarsh04 all the descended from xmms packages take far more cpu load than xmms 1.x Apr 19 00:13
shreddar I want to know if Mono will backfire if the patents get rejected. Apr 19 00:13
_Hicham_ sellar_liar is in love with banshee Apr 19 00:13
tacone also gnome-do seems to do very well. Apr 19 00:13
tacone banshee is pretty nice, beside crashes. Apr 19 00:13
seller_liar No, I m not in love Apr 19 00:13
tacone but nothing that far from exhaile. Apr 19 00:13
schestowitz tacone: I know, but I start to associate mono with methane. Apr 19 00:13
_Hicham_ fuck gnome-do and its mono backend Apr 19 00:13
seller_liar But , rhythmbox is not developed anymore! Apr 19 00:14
_Hicham_ get rid of mono if u r on Ubuntu Apr 19 00:14
tacone it wasn’t developed even before :-) Apr 19 00:14
amarsh04 I have yet to get hardware acceleration with an ATI radeon 3200 hd… I may have to find another video card that supports acceleration with free drivers Apr 19 00:14
tacone the problem is not to fork or port current applictations Apr 19 00:14
tacone is to propose better ones. Apr 19 00:14
seller_liar tacone: exaile ? Apr 19 00:15
tacone zeitgeist and gnome-shell are good examples. Apr 19 00:15
tacone exaile Apr 19 00:15
tacone nice, but even more crashy than banshee. Apr 19 00:15
schestowitz http://www.stefanoforenza.com/tag/free-… found contains http://www.stefanoforenza.com/blog/wp-conte… good place Apr 19 00:15
tacone beside the freezes, it’s pretty nice. Apr 19 00:15
schestowitz Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools < http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000… > Apr 19 00:16
tacone with banshee starting to support videos, it won’t be easy though. Apr 19 00:16
seller_liar tacone: port a app is a lot easy thans develop an app from scratch Apr 19 00:17
tacone seller_liar: go improve exaile. Apr 19 00:17
seller_liar devs uses languages converters like java2c Apr 19 00:17
_Hicham_ sellar_liar : who told u that? Apr 19 00:17
seller_liar tacone: ok , probably exaile is in launchpad Apr 19 00:17
tacone seller_liar: read my lips, c# -> python converter do not exist Apr 19 00:17
amarsh04 even if an existing app just provides a benchmark in features and ease of use, it helps one develop a competing product Apr 19 00:18
shreddar I wonder why QT cant be used in place of .NET or Java? (for cross-platform development) Apr 19 00:20
seller_liar shreddar: novuel “owns” gnome Apr 19 00:20
MinceR probably because people are too lame to code in C++ Apr 19 00:20
tacone exaile is in launchpad and uses PPA. Apr 19 00:21
*tacone can’t code in c/c++ Apr 19 00:21
seller_liar me too Apr 19 00:22
shreddar Well the way I understand it C++ and Jave are kinda the same. Apr 19 00:22
seller_liar I don t like c, c++ , but I like java a lot! Apr 19 00:22
tacone by the way, what tomboy demonstrated Apr 19 00:22
PetoKraus well Apr 19 00:22
PetoKraus qt is a toolkit Apr 19 00:22
seller_liar shreddar: Pointer and a mixture of c and c++ is very ugly Apr 19 00:22
tacone is that “This show me that the door is open to reimplementing Gtk# software (or Apr 19 00:22
tacone parts) in C++ with not too many problems, making it easy to have them Apr 19 00:22
tacone available for C applications.” Apr 19 00:22
PetoKraus it’s not a programming language Apr 19 00:23
tacone ” It is actually not that hard, just a lot of work to do manually because there is over a dozen of thousands of lines of code.” Apr 19 00:23
PetoKraus seller_liar: ugly? :) Apr 19 00:23
shreddar Oh Apr 19 00:23
PetoKraus some people call Java being ugly for being bloated… :) Apr 19 00:24
seller_liar PetoKraus: java is very extensible Apr 19 00:24
seller_liar PetoKraus: AspectJ , contracts and other thj]iings Apr 19 00:24
seller_liar PetoKraus: c and c++ is ….poooor Apr 19 00:25
PetoKraus didn’t use any of them. I just didn’t like it Apr 19 00:25
PetoKraus python was more appealing to me than java from the beginning Apr 19 00:25
PetoKraus especially because of the added non-OOP paradigm Apr 19 00:25
shreddar C and C++ will likely not be replaced untill machine code can be written from another OO language AFAIK. Apr 19 00:26
seller_liar PetoKraus: python is more easy and functional Apr 19 00:26
PetoKraus yeah Apr 19 00:26
PetoKraus shreddar: i don’t think C/C++ will be replaced soon Apr 19 00:26
PetoKraus look at fortran Apr 19 00:26
seller_liar shreddar: Eiffel uses c as intermediate lkanguage/ Apr 19 00:26
PetoKraus it’s very very old, but still used Apr 19 00:26
PetoKraus because of legacy soft Apr 19 00:27
seller_liar C is good only for to be a intermediate language now Apr 19 00:27
tacone python is going to get a big boost from google in a year or two. Apr 19 00:27
schestowitz Linux is getting a boost from subnotebooks and Microsoft dives http://digitimes.com/news/a2… http://www.notebookreview.com/def… http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Window… Apr 19 00:27
MinceR in c++ you can do actual memory management Apr 19 00:27
MinceR and you can make mistakes with it Apr 19 00:27
PetoKraus ^^ Apr 19 00:27
MinceR but at least your app won’t take half an hour to start and won’t eat your ram. Apr 19 00:27
PetoKraus you DO make mistakes with it Apr 19 00:27
tacone first link is pay only Apr 19 00:27
seller_liar schestowitz: We need to do a ethics campaign Apr 19 00:27
PetoKraus ethics? Apr 19 00:28
PetoKraus what’s that Apr 19 00:28
seller_liar seller_liar: Show the reality for all people Apr 19 00:28
seller_liar PetoKraus: People does not like ethics Apr 19 00:28
seller_liar PetoKraus: we need to promove ethics Apr 19 00:28
PetoKraus in what sense Apr 19 00:28
PetoKraus ethics is quite vague word Apr 19 00:29
seller_liar PetoKraus: People only thinks in personal desires Apr 19 00:29
seller_liar PetoKraus: People must think about global problems , not only in personal problems Apr 19 00:29
PetoKraus well Apr 19 00:29
PetoKraus “people must” is wrong to start with Apr 19 00:29
schestowitz Hehe. Apr 19 00:30
seller_liar PetoKraus: People focus too much in personal choices (for example , people chooses proprietary software instead of free software Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz Well, seller_liar raises an important point Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz because it’s know that authorities and companies deliberately isolate people Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz It makes people a lot more vulnerable Apr 19 00:30
PetoKraus secondly, there’s nothing wrong with using proprietary software, if you feel like it Apr 19 00:30
PetoKraus though Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz But people tend to think they are invincible aprt Apr 19 00:30
PetoKraus i don’t feel like it Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz Which is an illusion really Apr 19 00:30
schestowitz There are cases where one ethnic groups is knocked againat another by the elites Apr 19 00:31
PetoKraus well Apr 19 00:31
schestowitz Examples being drug wars, cold war, invasion of Iraq (‘war’ on Islam) Apr 19 00:31
PetoKraus this is a bit of a far shot from software Apr 19 00:31
PetoKraus isn’t it. Apr 19 00:31
schestowitz It makes people not revognise the real enemy Apr 19 00:31
PetoKraus the problem as far as i understand it Apr 19 00:31
schestowitz And people are sometimes treated like enemies across the border, even by own authorities Apr 19 00:31
seller_liar Proprietary software is a problem when there are more than free software Apr 19 00:31
PetoKraus is not trying to win the users from microsoft Apr 19 00:32
schestowitz This is a well-established thesis Apr 19 00:32
PetoKraus but the problem is to get equal ground from vendors (HW/SW) Apr 19 00:32
PetoKraus for both, FOSS and closed platforms Apr 19 00:32
schestowitz PetoKraus: It’s not about Microsoft Apr 19 00:32
seller_liar schestowitz: For example , people does not spend 10% free time to learn a new free operating system Apr 19 00:32
schestowitz GNU was never about MS, either Apr 19 00:32
seller_liar PetoKraus: : For example , people does not spend 10% free time to learn a new free operating system Apr 19 00:32
schestowitz It was created to address broader issues Apr 19 00:32
PetoKraus schestowitz: you don’t need to explain that to me :) Apr 19 00:33
schestowitz :-) Apr 19 00:33
amarsh04 ms didn’t make the laser printer that rms wanted the specs for Apr 19 00:33
seller_liar soory Apr 19 00:33
PetoKraus it was xerox, yeah Apr 19 00:33
seller_liar Instead people waste all the time in proprietary software Apr 19 00:33
shreddar Proprietary software is mostly a probablem for people who can program. All anyone else wants is a application that works. Apr 19 00:33
seller_liar You see? Apr 19 00:33
seller_liar Proprietary software -> selfish choice Apr 19 00:34
PetoKraus hm that’s gross generalisation Apr 19 00:34
shreddar and is cheap or free. Apr 19 00:34
seller_liar Free software -> less selfish choice, more ethical choice Apr 19 00:34
PetoKraus well it doesn’t have much with selfishness Apr 19 00:34
seller_liar PetoKraus: sorry , use ONLY proprietary soiftware , more than free software is a unethical choice Apr 19 00:34
amarsh04 If I get to the root cause of a software or hardware problem, I want to tell others about it… even if it was “I should have reset the BIOS to defaults after performing a BIOS upgrade” Apr 19 00:35
schestowitz Report: Jobs still in control at Apple < http://news.cnet.com/report-j… > And all the fanbis go “har ha har!” Apr 19 00:35
PetoKraus it does have hell-of-a-lot with transparency etc Apr 19 00:35
MinceR i wonder if he’ll still be in control after he dies :> Apr 19 00:35
seller_liar Jobs must die!!! Apr 19 00:35
MinceR indeed Apr 19 00:35
seller_liar Jobs have a lot of lobby and unsjust system behind him Apr 19 00:36
amarsh04 speaking of which, I would love for my next pc to run coreboot… with the opengraphics project video card, that may actually be feasible Apr 19 00:36
PetoKraus heh Apr 19 00:36
schestowitz amarsh04: you haven’t commented in LT for a while Apr 19 00:36
amarsh04 no schestowitz, I’m about 27 days behind in LT Apr 19 00:36
amarsh04 slowly catching up on LT Apr 19 00:36
schestowitz amarsh04: Carla posted  photos today Apr 19 00:37
amarsh04 what of, schestowitz? Apr 19 00:37
schestowitz Suburbs Apr 19 00:37
schestowitz I assume she lives somewhere at the heard of the USian lands. Apr 19 00:37
schestowitz *heart Apr 19 00:37
PetoKraus amarsh04: my southbridge is WIP Apr 19 00:37
amarsh04 she has indicated that she lives in a semi-rural area schestowitz Apr 19 00:38
schestowitz UPDATE: Tech Indus Group ECIS To Testify In EU Microsoft Probe < http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-a… > Apr 19 00:39
schestowitz Wow. Microsoft is totally fragmented: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsou… Apr 19 00:41
PetoKraus hmm: 2008/10/28 Intel 945, ICH7, Core Duo/Core 2 Duo, and Kontron 986LCD-M/mITX now supported Apr 19 00:41
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amarsh04 in coreboot, PetoKraus? Apr 19 00:41
PetoKraus yup Apr 19 00:41
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PetoKraus might be nice to skip grub Apr 19 00:42
schestowitz Maureen O’Gara: “vmware Continues To Reek of Microsoft” Apr 19 00:42
schestowitz Duh :-) Apr 19 00:42
amarsh04 I’m amazed at the level of activity with grub yet still not being feature complete Apr 19 00:43
PetoKraus :D Apr 19 00:43
_Hicham_ amarsh04 : there is nothing complete Apr 19 00:43
_Hicham_ everything can be improved Apr 19 00:43
shreddar On the browser case I doubt the EU will force MS to add other browsers just like the DOJ didn’t split them up 9 years ago. But maybe I’m being synical. Apr 19 00:43
schestowitz US jury orders Microsoft to pay $500m to Australian inventor < http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technolo… > Apr 19 00:44
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schestowitz I’m bored. Going to bed… Apr 19 01:02
tacone gn Apr 19 01:03
MinceR gn Apr 19 01:35
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air_ … installed debian at last Apr 19 01:47
air_ mandriva was definitely easier to use Apr 19 01:47
_Hicham_ air_ : good for u Apr 19 01:47
_Hicham_ air_ : why did u switch? Apr 19 01:47
air_ ’cause i wanted to switch for no reason Apr 19 01:48
air_ just got tired of mandriva Apr 19 01:48
_Hicham_ how was the transition? Apr 19 01:48
air_ it’s still not finished Apr 19 01:48
air_ ’cause firstly i got some insane video mode Apr 19 01:49
_Hicham_ did u have firmware problems? Apr 19 01:49
air_ firmware? Apr 19 01:49
_Hicham_ is that debian lenny? Apr 19 01:49
air_ yeah Apr 19 01:49
air_ it set up 1920xsmth 60hz firstly Apr 19 01:49
air_ my eyes almost fell off Apr 19 01:49
air_ then i gtf 1280 1024 100 and put it into xorg.conf Apr 19 01:50
_Hicham_ it is not a big issue Apr 19 01:50
air_ it set it up but it made not 100hz but 60hz Apr 19 01:50
air_ it’s crt monitor here Apr 19 01:50
_Hicham_ go to gnome control center Apr 19 01:50
air_ i still don’t know how to set up 100hz Apr 19 01:50
_Hicham_ does ur monitor support it? Apr 19 01:51
air_ yeah Apr 19 01:51
air_ where’s gnome control center? Apr 19 01:51
air_ there’s “screen resolution” in system–>preferences Apr 19 01:52
_Hicham_ yes Apr 19 01:52
air_ but it doesn’t actually work Apr 19 01:52
_Hicham_ u must then configure xorg.conf manually Apr 19 01:53
air_ that’s what i did Apr 19 01:53
air_ and it’s still 60 :) ) Apr 19 01:53
_Hicham_ what card do u have? Apr 19 01:54
air_ radeon hd4870 Apr 19 01:54
air_ http://pastebin.com/d3edd59a <– here’s my new xorg.conf Apr 19 01:55
air_ gotta try to reboot and check if it sets 100hz now :) Apr 19 02:00
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air_ seems like debian will kill me Apr 19 02:24
air_ even though i like how gnome looks Apr 19 02:24
_Hicham_ why? Apr 19 02:26
_Hicham_ same issue? Apr 19 02:26
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air_ yeah, _Hicham_ same problem Apr 19 02:34
_Hicham_ what driver are u using? Apr 19 02:35
air_ hm… idk Apr 19 02:35
_Hicham_ the open source radeonhd? Apr 19 02:35
air_ yeah Apr 19 02:35
air_ i tried to install it Apr 19 02:35
air_ but it said that it’s already latest Apr 19 02:35
air_ looks like i should somehow change id of monitor Apr 19 02:36
_Hicham_ were u using the open source radeonhd driver on mandriva too? Apr 19 02:38
_Hicham_ or was it fglrx? Apr 19 02:39
air_ i almost didn’t use mandriva at home Apr 19 02:39
air_ it just set up some 70-75hz mode and it was kinda enough Apr 19 02:39
_Hicham_ this is not debian specific Apr 19 02:40
air_ later i installed it into virtual pc and it was enough too :) Apr 19 02:40
_Hicham_ i am talking about the driver Apr 19 02:40
air_ yeah, i suspect it’s x-server specific Apr 19 02:40
_Hicham_ was it radeonhd or fglrx? Apr 19 02:41
air_ radeonhd Apr 19 02:41
air_ should somehow kill it and install fglrx? Apr 19 02:41
_Hicham_ if u were using on mandriva, there is no reason that it shouldn’t work on debian Apr 19 02:43
_Hicham_ it is the same Apr 19 02:43
air_ gonna sleep… may be the problem will fix itself Apr 19 02:50
air_ it promised Apr 19 02:50
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ZiggyFish I like these headlines that try to control your mind – You will upgrade to NetworkManager 0.7.1 Apr 19 04:53
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schestowitz hey Apr 19 07:21
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schestowitz No Surprise Here: NSA Abused Surveillance Powers http://techdirt.com/articles/200… Apr 19 09:36
schestowitz Brilliant response to attacks on Google: Why Are Newspapers Exploiting The People They Cover? < http://techdirt.com/articles/… > Apr 19 09:42
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schestowitz GNU/Linux is quietly and gradually ruining Microsoft: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/04/19… Apr 19 11:16
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oiaohm Yep the slow bleed of MS. Apr 19 11:33
oiaohm Is MS earning report out yet. Apr 19 11:33
schestowitz Glad you liked it. Apr 19 11:42
schestowitz oiaohm: I think it’s out around 26th, the usual Apr 19 11:43
oiaohm So no leaks. Apr 19 11:45
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_Hicham_ Hi oiaohm Apr 19 11:46
oiaohm Hi _Hicham_ Apr 19 11:47
oiaohm http://boycottnovell.com/2009/…  See this yet. Apr 19 11:47
oiaohm http://aligunduz.org/blog/2009/04/linux…  << Kinda messes with the idea of needing different linux kernels. Apr 19 11:49
_Hicham_ oiaohm : I disagree with that idea Apr 19 11:54
_Hicham_ it is a bad idea to offer blobs free kernel Apr 19 11:54
_Hicham_ the user experience will be crippled Apr 19 11:54
oiaohm Really fireware blobs are being split off into a different package. Apr 19 11:55
oiaohm Currently having to update kernel and blobs at the same time is bad. Apr 19 11:55
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_Hicham_ very bad Apr 19 11:55
oiaohm I agree they have no place in the Linux kernel source code. Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ of course Apr 19 11:56
oiaohm But not being able to use them I don’t agree with. Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ it nonesense Apr 19 11:56
oiaohm Yet that was still a single kernel for multiable distributions. Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ as gNewSense Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ cripple the user experience Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ why remove those blobs? Apr 19 11:56
_Hicham_ the user should have the possibility to use them Apr 19 11:57
oiaohm It is a good assessment tool. Apr 19 11:57
oiaohm Over time lots of binary blobs have disappeared. Apr 19 11:57
_Hicham_ but what if the vendor don’t want to release the code? Apr 19 11:58
_Hicham_ even if it is old stuff? Apr 19 11:58
_Hicham_ what about older hardware? Apr 19 11:58
_Hicham_ do we have to run windows instead? Apr 19 11:58
oiaohm Its the older hardware that the reversers had been at that has the disappearing binary blobs. Apr 19 11:58
oiaohm As I said assessment tool. Apr 19 11:59
oiaohm For the simple point of spoting areas where blobs could be over used. Apr 19 11:59
oiaohm Or even be breach of licence. Apr 19 11:59
_Hicham_ I see Apr 19 12:00
_Hicham_ once the reversing is complete, the blobs disappear Apr 19 12:00
oiaohm For genernal usage I would never recommend a kernel without firmware loading support. Apr 19 12:00
oiaohm A few cases the blobs have been found to be illegal. Apr 19 12:01
oiaohm Because they way there were they should have been GPL as well. Apr 19 12:01
_Hicham_ because of linking them against GPL code? Apr 19 12:02
oiaohm Yep. Apr 19 12:02
oiaohm More like moded GPL code inside. Apr 19 12:02
oiaohm Complete breaches. Apr 19 12:02
oiaohm gnewsense need is really to make sure everyone plays fair. Apr 19 12:02
_Hicham_ no one plays fair Apr 19 12:03
_Hicham_ Mandriva offer a CD filled with proprietary drivers and components Apr 19 12:03
_Hicham_ Ubuntu contains hardware firmware as well as fedora Apr 19 12:04
_Hicham_ Debian splitted them Apr 19 12:04
_Hicham_ Debian is the only one who is really doing a neat job in being free Apr 19 12:05
oiaohm Debian has followed kernel developers instructions. Apr 19 12:05
oiaohm Reason is firmware will start being updated out of sync with kernel versions. Apr 19 12:05
_Hicham_ I remarked that Apr 19 12:06
_Hicham_ Debian offer binary firmwares updates Apr 19 12:06
_Hicham_ Fedora also Apr 19 12:06
_Hicham_ but Fedora ships them out of the box Apr 19 12:06
oiaohm Basically each firmware comes from a different maker Apr 19 12:08
oiaohm And could be updated at different times. Apr 19 12:08
oiaohm Firewares are being forced to make there interfaces standard. Apr 19 12:09
oiaohm Goal is to allow them to be shared with solarias and freebsd as well. Apr 19 12:09
oiaohm This should work because firmwares should not be OS dependant. Apr 19 12:10
_Hicham_ that would be great if the interfaces kept clean Apr 19 12:10
_Hicham_ and unified Apr 19 12:10
_Hicham_ and that would ease the reversing process Apr 19 12:11
_Hicham_ the modsetting works great with fedora by the way Apr 19 12:12
_Hicham_ the only problem is with compiz Apr 19 12:12
_Hicham_ if u want compiz, u must disable modsetting Apr 19 12:12
oiaohm There is a prototype compiz supporting dri2 Apr 19 12:14
oiaohm Does it have problems with KMS. Apr 19 12:14
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schestowitz What Microsoft is doing in other companies is too transparent to see: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/04/1… Apr 19 12:22
oiaohm vmwares actions may turn out good. Apr 19 12:26
oiaohm galuim3d support in windows would weaken MS location. Apr 19 12:26
schestowitz vmware won’t fight Microsoft Apr 19 12:27
schestowitz They can’t Apr 19 12:27
schestowitz it’s their friends Apr 19 12:27
schestowitz Former colleagues Apr 19 12:27
schestowitz IIRC, VMware’s new  CEO , COO and CTO (that last one I’m not sure about) are from Microsoft Apr 19 12:27
_Hicham_ Hi schestowitz Apr 19 12:29
schestowitz Hey! Apr 19 12:31
schestowitz I’ve been quiet because I wrote things quickly and I must hurry Apr 19 12:31
schestowitz I’ll be back in 2 hours Apr 19 12:35
MinceR geekings Apr 19 12:37
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_Hicham_ oiaohm will KMS improve by 2.6.30? Apr 19 13:06
oiaohm KMS is not the major problem. Apr 19 13:11
oiaohm Galuim3d missing is a major problem. Apr 19 13:12
oiaohm compiz still designed for dri1 being around is also a problem. Apr 19 13:12
_Hicham_ can’t compiz be ported to dri2? Apr 19 13:13
oiaohm In there development tree there is a dri2 version. Apr 19 13:13
oiaohm past compiz depends on a lot of X11 hacks. Apr 19 13:13
oiaohm Its basically a complete rewirte. Apr 19 13:13
_Hicham_ in dri2 there is no X11 hacks? Apr 19 13:14
oiaohm No need for them. Apr 19 13:14
_Hicham_ that would be very good Apr 19 13:15
_Hicham_ clean code is great Apr 19 13:15
_Hicham_ no maintainance overheads Apr 19 13:15
oiaohm At the rate parts are lining up 2.6.31 might be the kernel that good graphical for a lot of cards appear. Apr 19 13:19
oiaohm ATI driver developers have accepted dri2 and gem has passed the point of no return. Apr 19 13:20
oiaohm So future drivers have to support it. Apr 19 13:20
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oiaohm This really shows the difference between open spec and not.  http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature   http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/… Apr 19 13:34
oiaohm Also notice that radeonhd drivers are slipping behind normal radeon. Apr 19 13:38
MinceR which is which? Apr 19 13:39
*MinceR doesn’t have any ati gpus so he doesn’t really keep track of them Apr 19 13:40
oiaohm nouveau is nvidia without spec. Apr 19 13:40
MinceR oh, i mean radeonhd vs radeon Apr 19 13:40
oiaohm (RHD) in there title is radeonhd Apr 19 13:41
tacone schestowitz: ping Apr 19 13:43
MinceR so none of the FLOSS drivers do full 3d acceleration or ati or nvidia Apr 19 13:43
oiaohm Not yet. Apr 19 13:45
oiaohm Galuim3d will be required for a large section of the 3d acceleration. Apr 19 13:46
MinceR hm, what about proprietary drivers, which is better now? Apr 19 13:46
oiaohm Nvidias. Apr 19 13:46
oiaohm After the mesa updates to support 3d most like Nvidia will be second. Apr 19 13:47
MinceR ic Apr 19 13:47
oiaohm Non 3d features normal radeon is almost complete. Apr 19 13:48
oiaohm GLSL optmiser is also in Galuim3d Apr 19 13:49
oiaohm Notice the list the open source nvidia driver is trying to do is a lot shorter than radeons. Apr 19 13:52
MinceR indeed Apr 19 13:52
oiaohm They have to reverse everything. Apr 19 13:54
oiaohm ATI guys have it way simpler. Apr 19 13:54
oiaohm More sections of the ATI list should be complete inside 1 month. Apr 19 13:55
oiaohm This could one and for all prove the major problem why Linux cannot have good drivers open source is specs. Apr 19 13:56
trmanco oiaohm, are you a driver developer? you really seem to know a lot about that stuff :-P Apr 19 13:57
MinceR the major problem is that the hw vendors don’t care Apr 19 14:03
oiaohm I follow a lot of the driver developers mailing lists trmanco Apr 19 14:11
trmanco oiaohm, I better start doing that… I follow a lot of them, but none have to do with drivers Apr 19 14:12
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trmanco http://mocha.xfce.org/documentatio… Apr 19 14:28
oiaohm http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/18/201  << Its fun watching things like this move though mailing lists trmanco Apr 19 14:29
trmanco I wish I could understand half of what he wrote Apr 19 14:32
oiaohm http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/18/201  << This is not really that complex.  Controlling how much device time applications get.  So you don’t end up with a program taking the all the device access. Apr 19 14:38
oiaohm At the price of everything else. Apr 19 14:38
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trmanco Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04 on ARM: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubun… Apr 19 14:41
*amarsh04 just wrote a post on the opengraphics mailing list about ATI firmware Apr 19 14:45
oiaohm about:robots  lol mozilla guys have a idea of fun. Apr 19 14:46
oiaohm Newer generation ATI cards don’t have what you call a normal firmware. Apr 19 14:47
oiaohm They have a atombios. Apr 19 14:47
amarsh04 yes, I’m not familiar with atombios and stated as much in my post Apr 19 14:48
trmanco cool -> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Developme… Apr 19 14:48
oiaohm atombios lives on video card.  Its a platform netural byte code designed to provide OS with enough information to interface with video card in a cpu netural way. Apr 19 14:51
oiaohm Basically 1 driver to rule them all. Apr 19 14:51
oiaohm Older cards are not designed that way. Apr 19 14:52
trmanco oiaohm, what do you mean by older? they started including atombios starting with what chip model? Apr 19 14:53
oiaohm r500 designs and up have atiombioses. Apr 19 14:54
trmanco ah ok, then I’m old Apr 19 14:56
oiaohm Old designs before amd took over the company. Apr 19 14:56
oiaohm Amd wants OS makers to have a fairly simple time getting basic support with there cards. Apr 19 14:57
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oiaohm “2D setup registers for the card, are still undocumented.”  Yep you have a novell style coder amarsh04.   Amd has not documented that because basic 2d setup on latter cards should be done threw atombios. Apr 19 15:02
oiaohm _cp are code patches.  Cards will fire up without them but there will be glitches.  Think of them as equal to intel microcode patches. Apr 19 15:03
amarsh04 what oiaohm? I’m not suprised that the x.org wiki isn’t perfect… have you posted some feedback to get them to correct the page? Apr 19 15:03
oiaohm And prior to r500 sections are covered by licencing agreements. Apr 19 15:05
oiaohm _cp patches don’t alter the interfaces to the card. Apr 19 15:07
schestowitz OOXML & funny bizniz: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/04/19/… Apr 19 15:07
oiaohm Fastest video (textured XvMC)  << That is not 2d code.   That is using GPU. Apr 19 15:12
trmanco I dont have that Apr 19 15:12
trmanco XvMC, if I activate that and put some video in fullscreen it’s choppy Apr 19 15:13
trmanco doesn’t that prevent video tearing or something? Apr 19 15:13
oiaohm amarsh04: basically 2d support is complete in the ati drivers.  All GPU level stuff is still waiting.  KMS completion is really the last bit of 2d support. Apr 19 15:14
oiaohm If your card truly supports it it works well trmanco Apr 19 15:14
trmanco R400 based chip Apr 19 15:15
oiaohm Look at list. Apr 19 15:15
trmanco must be the driver, maybe too old and it didn’t get the video tearing patch set Apr 19 15:15
oiaohm No open source ati driver does so you fall back to software rendering. Apr 19 15:15
oiaohm Yep choppy. Apr 19 15:15
trmanco let me check Apr 19 15:17
trmanco yep Apr 19 15:17
trmanco with XV and no XV Apr 19 15:17
trmanco I’m talking about the gstreamer prefs Apr 19 15:17
trmanco if I activate XV it’s choppy, if I don’t video tears but it’s fluid Apr 19 15:18
oiaohm XV blocks tears. Apr 19 15:19
oiaohm But there is more than one level of XV for performance. Apr 19 15:19
trmanco yeah, but the video playback sucks Apr 19 15:20
oiaohm Faster video (textured Xv) Apr 19 15:20
trmanco it also activates Xhsm Apr 19 15:20
trmanco whatever that is Apr 19 15:20
oiaohm Is what you are most likely using. Apr 19 15:20
oiaohm Basically decent support you need XvMC Apr 19 15:21
oiaohm Where some of the load is off loaded to video cards gpu. Apr 19 15:21
oiaohm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Video_M…  There is a option on closed source drivers to enable it trmanco Apr 19 15:23
trmanco when I used that driver back then, the video wouldn’t tear Apr 19 15:24
trmanco don’t know if it was already using XV or not Apr 19 15:25
trmanco I moved to the open source driver because it would freeze X Apr 19 15:25
amarsh04 thanks oiaohm Apr 19 15:25
oiaohm GPU section of video cards is one of the hardest sections to code. Apr 19 15:26
oiaohm Yet the coders are talking about having most of that done in a few months. Apr 19 15:27
oiaohm trmanco: it will improve as more stuff comes on line. Apr 19 15:27
oiaohm amarsh04: big one Novell and Amd had dispute over the 2d section.  Novell wanted to go straight to card.  AMD wanted it though atombios so base driver worked no matter the ATI card inserted. Apr 19 15:29
oiaohm Personally I agree with AMD judgement.   They do provide disasm tool for the atombios so you can get the direct 2d interfaces for a card if you want. Apr 19 15:30
oiaohm Just they discourage going that way. Apr 19 15:31
oiaohm I am off to bed good night all Apr 19 15:31
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trmanco lol Apr 19 16:01
trmanco AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around. Apr 19 16:01
trmanco smart eh :-P Apr 19 16:01
amarsh04 yes, I’ve seen that message Apr 19 16:02
trmanco checking my logs to see if the system is running smooth Apr 19 16:02
trmanco everything tunning smooth Apr 19 16:10
trmanco oops Apr 19 16:10
trmanco running* Apr 19 16:10
schestowitz Someone has just pointed that while we speak about hardware (Linux), many applications will likely move online, even MS Office. We need to ensure control is preserved if programs are moved on-line. Apr 19 16:18
schestowitz The weakening of Microsoft is not an endless happy ending Apr 19 16:18
schestowitz It used to be IBM Apr 19 16:18
schestowitz Apple and Google present issues too Apr 19 16:18
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