Jesse Keating wrote:
Are you saying these desktops can't ever run on *bsd/solaris, etc.
kernels and libc's because they need features unique to this month's
linux?
Once upon a time (... in a galaxy far, far away) I used to build
updated GNOME versions for older Red Hat Linux releases. It wasn't
easy, but it was pretty constrained to a small set of packages.
These days, I'd end up needing new hal which brings in ConsoleKit
which ...[1]
They may needa ConsoleKit like thing doing the permission changes to
the devices as necessary...
I think that concept is rather bizarre anyway since I think of
permissions as being tied to who you are, not where you are. But I tend
to not use the physical console much either, doing most work via
freenx/NX with the session resumed at an assortment of locations and
client platforms.
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