Re: Call for testing: 23.10 candidate images

2023-10-10 Thread Ian Bruntlett
ntu.com/qatracker/milestones/449/builds Thank you for that. Downloaded Ubuntu 23.10 rc and tested it, and registered my results. BW, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/ -- Free Software page - https

Keyboard short-cuts

2017-04-11 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi All, I particularly like Ubuntu's keyboard short-cuts. Most (if not all) of my friends at the Tyneside LUG are unaware of them. I was thinking of writing a mini-article about them for the ACCU's CVu magazine and I was wondering if there is a page out there that lists them? I know if you hold th

Re: Change of scope and target market for i386

2017-06-12 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Dmitri, On 3 May 2017 at 18:01, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > ## > NB! this is a mailing list for developers, and this is a _proposal_ > that I want to discuss with the *buntu developers. There is no need to > OMG this, especially since this is a recurring discussion every single > develop

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Legacy Support

2017-08-03 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Len, On 31 July 2017 at 02:22, Len Ovens wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Helios Martinez Dominguez wrote: > > There should be a way to provide x86 support natively while providing x64 >> upgrading on the go as detected, as needed or as stated. It would allow >> to remain >> > > We already do pr

Re: More diagnostics data from desktop

2018-02-15 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Will, On 14 February 2018 at 15:22, Will Cooke wrote: > We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that > matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more > data about sort of setups our users have and which software they are > running on it. >

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-12 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Nrbtx et al, On 9 May 2018 at 21:59, Nrbrtx wrote: > Dear Bryan and all! > > Please do not forget about some special hardware configurations such as > Thin Clients. > For example we use about 50 machines as Fat LTSP clients with Intel > Celeron and Intel Atom. Their RAM is limited to 2Gb by h

Re: Symbols files for C++ libraries for Ubuntu main

2018-05-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Robie et al, I have quite a bit of C experience and some C++ experience (not on Linux, though) and I'm a volunteer tester. I haven't quite got the hang of github (it is in my pile of things to learn). Having access to the source code for packages would be helpful because sometimes, when chasin

Re: New Ubuntu Core Developer - Simon Quigley

2018-08-15 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Simon, On 13 August 2018 at 21:26, Simon Quigley wrote: > Today, I was voted to be an Ubuntu Core Developer by the Ubuntu > Developer Membership Board (a board which I already sit on, so I'm > taking care of myself here). I now have upload rights to the entire > Ubuntu archive. > > Thanks eve

Disco Dingo (19.04) Final Freeze - is it available?

2019-04-14 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, Are the above isos available for testing yet - and where are they? Was hoping to test it this morning but I haven't heard a peep so far. BW, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/ -- Free Software p

32-bit support.

2019-06-24 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, I spotted a post by Canonical about support for 32-bit:- *"Thanks to the huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS."* Short story: I have been and wil

Re: Focal Fossa Beta candidate builds ready to test

2020-04-04 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Brian, Yesterday I downloaded and installed this iso:- f3d899e230f1d348beda80e2560a2fcd focal-desktop-amd64.iso I must say that the install has improved since I last installed it (Saturday). In particular, the issue with the partitioner GUI being a bit clumsy has been resolved. I then tested

Re: Focal Fossa Beta milestone delayed

2020-04-04 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Lukasz, On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 09:32, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > The image building issues have now been resolved and all the new Beta > isos are now built and ready to test [1]. Please pick up your favorite > flavor and resume testing as soon as possible. > *The install.* I downloaded and insta

Re: Call for testing: 20.04.2 release candidate images ready!

2021-02-06 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Lukasz, On the page http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/420/builds/226354/downloads "Download links for Ubuntu Desktop amd64", there is a minor error. It refers to "MD5 checksum" and it should refer to "SHA256 checksum". I installed the iso with no problems. HTH, Ian -- -- ACCU

Re: Call for testing: ubiquity-based 20.04.2.0 desktop image respins

2021-02-12 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Lukasz, I needed to update an old laptop that had been in an office ever since Covid and Lockdown began. Details: HP EliteBook 8730w with Nvidia graphics. Installation media: USB memory stick with 20.04.2.0 desktop image on it. Installed this on it:- $ sha256sum focal-desktop-amd64.iso 93bdab

Re: Call for testing: ubiquity-based 20.04.2.0 desktop image respins

2021-02-12 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Actually, as well as thanking the nouveau team, I'd like to thank the Canonical teams for their hard work, too. -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/ -- Free Software page - https://sites.google.com/site/ia

Re: /boot disk partition size

2022-02-17 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, Quick question. I'm using an install of Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64 with one partition for / and another partition for swap. All my /boot files are in a subdirectory of my / partition. My drive is 1TB in size. Am I doing something wrong? TIA, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programmin

Re: pv (a pipeline progress indicator) in main?

2022-04-27 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Bryce, pv looks like a really good idea to me. Kudos to Andrew Wood for his code and to the people promoting this tool. Using pv at the beginning of a pipe provides full information and an estimate of time remaining. This is really useful. Using pv to display the progress of a tar command is

Re: systemd-oomd issues on desktop

2022-06-10 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 20:20, Dan Streetman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 3:03 PM Nick Rosbrook > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > During the 22.04 cycle, we enabled systemd-oomd [1] by default on > > desktop. Since then, there have been reports of systemd-oomd killing > > user applications too

Re: Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-02 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Lukasz, On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 23:58, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We just finished building our first official set of 22.04.1 release > candidate images. From what we're seeing so far things seem to be > looking quite nice, so fingers-crossed for those being our final ones! > >