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05-24-2013, 04:17 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Yeah Arch has GTK+ built with the wayland backend so I could use a few of GTK programs I've got installed (im a KDE guy personally, hence why "a...

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05-24-2013, 04:15 PM

Ericg replied to a thread KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Expect an alpha or beta probably this holiday season. The current idea is to ship a finished product early next year, so this holiday season is about...

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05-24-2013, 04:14 PM

Ericg replied to a thread KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

You're taking things out of context Dee... KDE Software Compilation is currently at 4.11 KDE Frameworks is currently at 4.11 Plasma Workspace...

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05-23-2013, 10:09 PM

Ericg replied to a thread X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

I just use Arch so that I dont have to deal with reinstallations / worrying "Did I get the most recent update?" Also the AUR is a nice touch for...

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05-23-2013, 10:08 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Post a message to Lennart's blog or the systemd-devel mailing list and ask them if it was worked around or if they dont hit that problem. Its very...

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05-23-2013, 09:53 PM

Ericg replied to a thread KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Current roadmaps are shooting for early next year. Otherwise git.

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05-23-2013, 09:40 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Consolekit was depreciated for logind, which is a part of the systemd suite. For the record, Policykit was also abandoned, it was forked into...

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05-23-2013, 07:47 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project in Mobile Linux

Why not Zoidberg? Same reason.

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05-23-2013, 07:07 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

And I suddenly have yet another reason to just buy a Macbook Pro / Macbook Air for my next laptop and throw Arch on it.... Thanks for the...

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05-23-2013, 06:43 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Glad to hear it will go into a reusable library. And yeah, I know that better than most. I've got the Dell XPS 13z with the Cypress touchpad that...

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05-23-2013, 06:07 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project in Mobile Linux

Possibly. Qt5 took in some of the "KDE-Only" things and KF5 should be replacing some of the other "KDE-only" things with native, generic Qt ones....

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05-23-2013, 06:04 PM

Ericg replied to a thread X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Since we know the name of the patcher its not a big deal to just watch the source repo for any of his recent commits and just apply them to...

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05-23-2013, 04:36 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Actually a very interesting read, so thanks for the heads-up. I didn't even realize you had your own blog though looking at it, it seems pretty new...

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05-23-2013, 12:43 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

Heeey look who's back, hey Daniel. Quick wayland-related question. How's touchpad acceleration going? Or is still on the "TODO" List? I know you...

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05-23-2013, 12:40 PM

Ericg replied to a thread Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs in General Linux

You're right, Btrfs has HAD issues. HOWEVER all known corruption bugs, all failed recovery bugs and the likes have been sorted out. Btrfs biggest...

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05-23-2013, 09:31 AM

Ericg replied to a thread Wayland's Weston Gets Output Scaling Support in Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds

its not X. For a better answer... literally go to my profile and search for all my Wayland threads. I typically have to explain it at least once per...

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05-23-2013, 12:58 AM

Ericg replied to a thread Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit in Processors & Memory

When I took this measure, htop was reporting about ~812mb of RAM used, of 3277 total, so it was saying about 2,465mb free. $ free -m ...

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05-23-2013, 12:40 AM

Ericg replied to a thread Hot Relocation HDD To SSD Support For Btrfs in General Linux

What are you talking about ultima? Btrfs never had the goal, nor the idea to beat Ext4 on pure performance. It was the filesystem to handle...

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