Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-17 Thread Denis Washington
Hello, Given that this Ubuntu cycle is all about "precision" with little details, how about taking some "techie" cruft out of the GRUB boot selection menu entries? Currently, these seem pretty confusing to a casual user: - The Ubuntu entries as the kernel version ("Ubuntu, with kernel 3.2.0

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-17 Thread Dane Mutters
I'd like to chime in and agree that this sounds like a really neat idea--especially if those running the feed were to include info about critical updates or bugs that need to be dealt with as soon as the install is finished (assuming the user doesn't have the installer download all this stuff durin

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-17 Thread Jeff Lane
On 01/16/2012 07:11 PM, Dylan McCall wrote: I wonder if there would be any opposition to a live Twitter stream in that screenshot's place, where available, showing tweets containing #ubuntu? This would be on the last page of the slideshow. (By "Twitter stream" I'm talking about this thing, or so

RE: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2012-01-17 Thread nick rundy
A lot of stuff is going to need to be backported. Here's a phoronix link that tells of 50 power patches from Intel that landed this morning in 3.3 kernel. Not to mention graphics related stuff that 3.3 gains. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NDE > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-17 Thread Ray Perigo
I wouldn't be horribly opposed to seeing this. It'd be a nice way to showcase the community aspect of the OS. That being said, the main thing to consider here is exactly what content you would want to show in there. On the one hand, filtering out negative commentary would shed the best possible lig