pure EFI booting, Intel Macs, etc.

2011-04-21 Thread Delan Azabani
Hi all, I hope I'm not wasting your time with an often-discussed topic, and I'm sorry if this is not specifically Ubuntu-related, but I am very interested in Grub and EFI, specifically on Intel Macs. It's been a pain so far, but I've gathered what I think is a basic understanding of EFI on Ma

[Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Allison Randal
The Ubuntu One developers have an interesting technical conundrum that would benefit greatly from all of your thoughts. They've started collecting ideas, and would like to collect more, and hopefully settle down on a plan for the next cycle in a UDS session. The basic problem is in keeping a netw

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:14:17 AM Allison Randal wrote: > The Ubuntu One developers have an interesting technical conundrum that > would benefit greatly from all of your thoughts. They've started > collecting ideas, and would like to collect more, and hopefully settle > down on a plan for the

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Alan Pope
On 21 April 2011 16:14, Allison Randal wrote: > - Only ship a very small shim for the client on the CD (advantage of > small footprint), and do the rest of the install the first time someone > uses Ubuntu One. > This is what dropbox does albeit a download and not on CD, and it seems to work nicel

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Allison Randal's message of Thu Apr 21 08:14:17 -0700 2011: > - Ship Ubuntu One client (only) in a PPA. Having a micro-release exception per ScottK's suggestion is better than this, because then you don't have to have the user go through the step of adding the PPA. Given the capabili

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread John Rowland Lenton
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:29:22 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Go through the tech board (as Landscape did) and show your QA/updating > process > is sufficiently robust to be able to ship needed feature updates in > *-updates. > While this doesn't scale well and doesn't work at all for clie

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, April 21, 2011 01:23:52 PM John Rowland Lenton wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:29:22 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Go through the tech board (as Landscape did) and show your QA/updating > > process is sufficiently robust to be able to ship needed feature updates > > in *-updates.