Is the support for Xinerama better in Fedora? I will be buying a few NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400. Trying to get away from the Matrox G200 Thanks, Ernesto On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:29, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Damian Donnelly wrote: > > >I think moderating this list, as suggested, is a good idea. The > >amount of abuse (personal opinion and nit-picking) of this > >mailing list today has almost convinced me to unsuscribe. > > > >Pull yourselves together. > > I agree with your second sentence completely. It's tiring to > read the same old repeated tirades day in and day out, especially > on a list like fedora-devel which is supposed to be strictly > about development. I know many people have commented both > internally at Red Hat and externally along the general idea of > "whoa, there's so much crap coming in it's hard to sift the > useful interesting stuff and on topic stuff from all the rants > and raves and garbage" and similar. I agree, I can't keep up > with it all, so I sift looking for "XFree86" in people's > subjects, skip over subjects that are obvious neverending > flamewars and pointless ranting, and try to find useful mails to > reply to. > > It's such a pileup of mostly total garbage though, so as to make > the signal level very low compared to the noise. I might move > the list out of my pine search path into my archive path, just to > avoid the volume of what is mostly pointless garbage and > bitching. ;o) > > The other alternatives at least for me are to: > > 1) Set a procmail filter to delete anything without XFree86 or > other special keywords in the subject > > 2) Unsubscribe > > > Moderation would be nice in theory, but there's 2 problems with > that: > > 1) People would scream bloody murder 10 times more and claim Red > Hat is an evil closed blah blah for having a moderated list and > their freedom of speech is being withheld and censored, blah blah > blah. So that would never ever work out, if anything it would > generate 2 times as much useless off topic junkmail. > > and > > 2) Someone would have to moderate each post. That would be more > or less a full time job, and if the purpose of it was to kill off > topic and/or totally useless threads, most of the list traffic > would almost completely vanish IMHO, making the list pretty > quiet. ;o) > > > So, I think people want the lists open, thats fine, but then > people get what they get, which at least currently is cacophony > on fedora-devel-list, fedora-test-list, and fedora-list all 3 > lists of which are almost indistinguishable from one another > contentwise. I wonder if they'd make good bayesian filter data > for spamassassin though. ;o) > > Anyway, that's my $0.03 CDN. ;oP -- Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto@xxxxxxxx>
