Re: Preload

2010-06-14 Thread sam tygier
On 14/06/10 23:36, Rovanion Luckey wrote: > Good day > > I have the tingling sensation that this topic has already been up to > discussion, but I'm going to bring it up anyways. > Preload is a daemon that monitors what applications the user runs and > by analysing that data it prefetches the most u

Preload

2010-06-14 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Good day I have the tingling sensation that this topic has already been up to discussion, but I'm going to bring it up anyways. Preload is a daemon that monitors what applications the user runs and by analysing that data it prefetches the most used data into the RAM so to decrease the time needed

Re: aptitude vs. apt

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck wrote: > Chris Jones writes: >> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's >> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that >> can't be done already with other built-in tools. > > I use aptitude primarily for aptitude searc

Re: aptitude vs. apt

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Hawkins
apt-cache search On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:03 AM, Akkana Peck wrote: > Chris Jones writes: >> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's >> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that >> can't be done already with other built-in tools. > > I use aptitude pri

Re: aptitude vs. apt

2010-06-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Chris Jones writes: > I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's > functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that > can't be done already with other built-in tools. I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages are or are not installed

Re: UDS 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 dates

2010-06-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 01:25 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > On 06/08/2010 12:08 AM, Robbie Williamson wrote: > > 11.10 UDS - May 9-13 (2011) > > We should change this one, the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin will be on May 11-14. > > See http://www.linuxtag.de/. > I would not have thought this

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Oram wrote on 05/05/10 23:44: > > Ubuntu needs a change in direction. I propose that Ubuntu adopt a > development model where only the core operating system, userland, core > libraries, and desktop environment are frozen every 6 months. The > app

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 43, Issue 19

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
> > It might be worth pointing out that aptitude is preferred over apt-get > in Debian [1]: > >The preferred program for package management from the command line >is aptitude, which can perform the same package management functions >as apt-get and has proven to be better at dependency r