Re: [Utopia] Praise from a Utopia user

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 00:25, ChangeModeKernel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using HAL,  DBUS, and GVM  for several months now (since mid 
> April).  (All on FC2 ). I have to say it all works great and the 
> potential is even better.  It is all very amazing -- and appreciated . 
> Currently running semi recent versions of most  items (HAL 2.93 from cvs 
> of 12 July 2004 (Fedora's Rawhide)) DBUS 0.21 also from Rawhide and GVM 
> 0.9.5 (built from a hack of John Palmieri's .spec file from his 
> 0.9.2.src.rpm and CVS) and patched gnome-vfs2 (also from j5utopia 
> repository). Thanks to Mr. Palmieri making all those RPMs and SRPMs 
> available!  Actually building GVM from source wasn't quite as hard as I 
> thought it would be. It only took me about an hour to update the spec 
> and learn the (absolute) basics of the auto* utilities for the make 
> environment and then tar it back up for the rpmbuild -ba to use. ;-)  
> The gnome-vfs2 is probably the most out-of-date, but what I have works 
> pretty nicely.  It was fun watching new things come together, plus 
> figuring out the weird stuff (e.g. udev for /dev changes when I went to 
> udev 0.29)  Looking forward to the new stuff you've been doing over the 
> last couple of weeks.
> 
> Anyway, the bottom line is this -- I am totally impressed -- It makes 
> Linux "usable" on the desktop -- because now the hardware I plug in just 
> works. You are doing great things. Thank you!
> 
> 
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Wow, thanks.  People like you are why I started hacking in Linux.  It
makes me want to work harder.  It is nice to see work being acknowledged
and that the team is able to please the end user.  Please let me know if
you find anything lacking in the packages and I will try to address
them.

--
J5