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[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

I copied the current x86_64  diskboot.img to a flash drive,
then checked it with cmp.  All it does is display "boot error"
on the monitor.  An older version of diskboot worked on
this machine - Asus a8n-e with 3000+ CPU.

Rawhide on a Core Duo and Nvidia 7950 - selecting Desktop Effects
replaces the desktop with a non functional white screen,
but the cursor and ctrl-alt-bs still work.  This is with default X settings.

I would like to see the next release support the following.
Desktop: Compiz and all the nice eye candy.  Blackberry support.

Server: Effective SPAM filtering including sender verification,
easy and intuitive to set up.   Blackberry Enterprise mail server.

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Chuck Forsberg    caf(a)omen.com   www.omen.com   503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
  Omen Technology Inc      "The High Reliability Software"
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[Andrew Farris]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>  Rawhide on a Core Duo and Nvidia 7950 - selecting Desktop Effects
>  replaces the desktop with a non functional white screen,
>  but the cursor and ctrl-alt-bs still work.  This is with default X 
>  settings. 
Probably an opengl issue, so it would be good to note whether this was the nv or 
nouveau driver at the time.  Compiz seems to require direct rendering on my 
nvidia card and fails right now when it must go indirect rendering and software 
gl.  This really isn't that big an issue since it is practically useless in 
software anyway and the 'nice eye candy' really does require the native nvidia 
driver to perform tolerably.

>  I would like to see the next release support the following.
>  Desktop: Compiz and all the nice eye candy.  Blackberry support.
>  
>  Server: Effective SPAM filtering including sender verification,
>  easy and intuitive to set up.   Blackberry Enterprise mail server. 
Is spamassassin not effective?

-- 
Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com&gt; www.lordmorgul.net
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No one now has, and no one will ever again get, the big picture. - Daniel Geer
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[Jon Stanley]

On Feb 20, 2008 10:48 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf(a)omen.com&gt; wrote:

>  I would like to see the next release support the following.
>  Desktop: Compiz and all the nice eye candy.  Blackberry support. 
Define "Blackberry support".  If you mean charging via USB,  I think
that you can do that today.
>  Server: Effective SPAM filtering including sender verification,
>  easy and intuitive to set up.   Blackberry Enterprise mail server. 
There is no F/LOSS BES server.  It is a proprietary application that
runs on MS Windows.  Since it has to talk to RIM's servers using
unpublished API's (and be blessed by them to do so), it will be a cold
day in hell before a BES comes to Linux.

Maybe that's not what you mean, though.

[Jeff Voskamp]

Jon Stanley wrote:
>  On Feb 20, 2008 10:48 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
> <caf(a)omen.com&gt; wrote:
>
>    
> > I would like to see the next release support the following.
> > Desktop: Compiz and all the nice eye candy.  Blackberry support.
> >     
>
>  Define "Blackberry support".  If you mean charging via USB,  I think
>  that you can do that today.
>    
> > Server: Effective SPAM filtering including sender verification,
> > easy and intuitive to set up.   Blackberry Enterprise mail server.
> >     
>
>  There is no F/LOSS BES server.  It is a proprietary application that
>  runs on MS Windows.  Since it has to talk to RIM's servers using
>  unpublished API's (and be blessed by them to do so), it will be a cold
>  day in hell before a BES comes to Linux.
>
>  Maybe that's not what you mean, though.
>
>     
You could take a look at Barry.
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/

Jeff Voskamp