Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:27 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:09 +1100, David Dean wrote: > > From memory the "old" way to deal with this was to create a tiny slice > > at the start of the disk, and install boot there - whether the user > > This was the so called "/boot" par

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Hackenberger
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 08:23, Corey Burger wrote: > There are a few replacements out there, the most promising I can find is > Ebox: http://ebox-platform.com/ What about puppet? The foundation is there, probably just a frontend is needed. The project website is here: https://reductivelabs.com

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-07 Thread Arwyn Hainsworth
On 07/03/07, greek ordono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > Arwyn, in what language are you going to implement this tool, > python/perl? If its going to be in python I will be willing to help. Can we > fork rPathAppliancePlatform to ubuntu? Python would probably be better suited to the

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Hackenberger
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 15:24, Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: > Python would probably be better suited to the task and it's better > supported in Ubuntu anyway. > While I'm not really familiar with rPath AppliancePlatform, from a bit > of googling I gather it's just another web-based interface with > p

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-07 Thread George Farris
On Wed, 2007-07-03 at 23:24 +0900, Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: > On 07/03/07, greek ordono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Arwyn, in what language are you going to implement this tool, > > python/perl? If its going to be in python I will be willing to help. Can we > > fork rPathApplia

Re: Activating the CUPS snmp backend in Ubuntu Feisty

2007-03-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
I recommend that it be reviewed, with your proposal in mind, by Kees Cook from the security team, if he has not already examined it. On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:33:31PM +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Hi, > > on the IRC I talked with pitti about activating the CUPS backends which > were de-activate

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-07 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2007-06-03 at 23:23 -0800, Corey Burger wrote: > On 3/6/07, George Farris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At some point there was a discussion about using Webmin or replacing it, > > has there been any discussion about this? Is Ubuntu recommending > > something else or some other framework?

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-07 Thread Alec Wright
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:13 -0500, t u wrote: > I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and > commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 > Revive ubuntu-calendar > > thanks :)

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-07 Thread Alec Wright
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > I always install gnome-backgrounds. There are actually quite a few > GPL (not sure how that applies to photos, but whatever) packages of > excellent backgrounds. Not many are included in the Ubuntu > repositories though. > > OpenSuSE h

gnome-cups-add - rename?

2007-03-07 Thread Alec Wright
If you got to system>>administration>>printing and click on add printer, a window which looks like this pops up: http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotgnomecupsaddjg3.jpg gnome-cups-add not a particularly user friendly window name is it? I was thinking it could be renamed to somet

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:12:15PM +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes > cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem > and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the > forums as we

Re: gnome-cups-add - rename?

2007-03-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:09:20PM +, Alec Wright wrote: > If you got to system>>administration>>printing and click on add printer, > a window which looks like this pops up: > http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotgnomecupsaddjg3.jpg > > gnome-cups-add not a particularly user

Windows CD has wrong label

2007-03-07 Thread t u
Hi, I imagine that fixing this wouldn't take too long (I apologize if I'm wrong). This is the bug report: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/71119 Accordingly, both in Edgy and Feisty, the Windows LiveCD shows itself as Ubuntu 6.06. Can someone please fix it, it is fairly unprofessional (as in "hm