Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for Maria too

2011-07-09 Thread Victor Silva
Just asked cause here in Brazil I do consider uncommon to maids to be able to afford a laptop still it has becamew much more cheaper in the last years. Btw im in THE SOUTH, Porto Alegre. Em 10 de julho de 2011 02:15, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Em Dom, 2011-07-1

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for Maria too

2011-07-09 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Dom, 2011-07-10 às 02:13 -0300, Victor Silva escreveu: > Out of curiosity where are you based? Brasil South, Curitiba

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for Maria too

2011-07-09 Thread Victor Silva
Out of curiosity where are you based? 2011/7/10 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi > Well said Madhurya Kakati, > While ipads, iphones, sony vaio, Hp... lenovo... have they > share in the market of people who buy it because have money to do > so, there are 10X more people that can only buy a celeron 3300 n

[arch-general] Archlinux is for Maria too

2011-07-09 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Well said Madhurya Kakati, While ipads, iphones, sony vaio, Hp... lenovo... have they share in the market of people who buy it because have money to do so, there are 10X more people that can only buy a celeron 3300 notebook for US$50 dolars/month. Some months ago, the woman who cleans my home (Mar

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Same case here in India. We buy, suppose a lenovo laptop(standard config - core i3, 15" LCD, 2GB RAM, 160 GB HDD), for 35,000 INR. However the price of the lowest apple laptop is about 65,000 INR (with student discounts). So the number of Apple laptops used is very low. Also I have never touche

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-07-2011 18:15, Yaro Kasear wrote: > The macs are a disgrace. Why should mid-range PCs be priced like top-of-the- > line gaming rigs? Because they are imagical, they have the wifis and the bigger GBs and dont forget the apps. Just don't hold it iwrong :p -- Mauro Santos

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Vic Demuzere
On 9 July 2011 19:15, Yaro Kasear wrote: > The macs are a disgrace. Why should mid-range PCs be priced like top-of-the- > line gaming rigs? > As long as people are prepared to pay for it, why not? I'd never pay that much for a mid-range PC, but some people do. As long as we have the choice not to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.2-1

2011-07-09 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 07/09/2011 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Another bugfix release for the 0.7 series. Please sign off. Dave Reisner (11): mkinitcpio: refactor BASEDIR resolution unify error messaging, both in grammar and output manpage: wrap at 80 columns, add a vim modeline manpa

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread dmbuce
On 07/09/2011 12:15 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On Saturday, July 09, 2011 01:11:22 PM Kyle wrote: Apple devices stopped looking appealing to me when people around me started getting them and I found out how much control Apple has over what people do with their devices, especially i-devices, iPod, iP

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-09 Thread Vojtěch Král
@Nicolas I've put it up on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50587 (named 'libopencl' cause 'libcl' is not allowed on aur) Both Intel and AMD sdk now depend on it, so you can install both of them at the same time. The problem with this libopencl pkg is the god damned license - -

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 01:11:22 PM Kyle wrote: > Apple devices stopped looking appealing to me when people around me > started getting them and I found out how much control Apple has over > what people do with their devices, especially i-devices, iPod, iPad, > iPhone, etc. And now that they hav

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Kyle
Apple devices stopped looking appealing to me when people around me started getting them and I found out how much control Apple has over what people do with their devices, especially i-devices, iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc. And now that they have brought their twisted concept of an app store to MacO

[arch-general] Archlinux is for everyone

2011-07-09 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Sáb, 2011-07-09 às 11:49 -0300, Bernardo Barros escreveu: > Apple is just about to open a big (computer/ipad/i-xxx) factory in Brazil. > It is growing and invading various niches here, which is equally > threatening to freedom... > > But now we have ArchAudio that will prove an strong alternat

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux is for me

2011-07-09 Thread Bernardo Barros
Apple is just about to open a big (computer/ipad/i-xxx) factory in Brazil. It is growing and invading various niches here, which is equally threatening to freedom... But now we have ArchAudio that will prove an strong alternative in the fields of Music and ProAudio too! =)

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-09 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > I made a simple PKGBUILD just to demonstrate: > http://codepad.org/iK2oBo0W > Looks fine to me! I'll try it later on.

Re: [arch-general] libreoffice 3.4.1-2 "General Error" on open and save

2011-07-09 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Qui, 2011-07-07 às 09:55 -0500, David C. Rankin escreveu: > Guys, > >Since updating to libreoffice 3.4.1-2 I get a "General Error" on opening > any document and on saving any document for the first time. (i.e. save a new > document or 'save as' new name on existing documents) > >Lib

Re: [arch-general] Alternative for Xyne's makerepo?

2011-07-09 Thread Vic Demuzere
On 10 June 2011 15:33, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi, > I wrote repoman time ago. It's a tool to manage your personal repo. > Archers used it, but I don't get a bug from time (last is dated 12th Aprile > 2010); I don't use it anymore (because I've no more my repo), but I'm still > here to fix bugs. >