Re: Alternatives to preseed installation?

2012-12-07 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Mathys wrote: >> Maybe FAI? >> http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI > > Thanks for the link. Have you used FAI already? Is it complicated to > learn? Is it reliable? > > From a quick look at the website I guess I could also man

Re: Hi and Thanks.

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cole...@lavabit.com wrote on 03/12/12 23:26: > ... > > I like Ubuntu so much and the philosophy/open source ideas behind > it I wanted to contribute to help Ubuntu. So if my experiences or > feedback can help inform or improve ubuntu in any way, I'm h

Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Fabio Pedretti
It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running and installing Ubuntu. It should be a win for every configuration. Since kernel 3.8 the zram module is out of staging, I am using it since pre

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread John Moser
it's a definite win for large configurations infrequent swapping, much more additional RAM), as well as for small configurations where there's a lot of swapping (faster than swapping). I wrote and use an init script that breaks up the zswap into n devices, 1 per cpu execution thread, to fully

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Jordon Bedwell
-1. I am not on a netbook and even my laptop have 12gb of Ram. It would be nice if Ubuntu did detect your ram and decide but not force it on people like me who aren't memory constrained. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread John Moser
On 12/07/2012 05:44 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: -1. I am not on a netbook and even my laptop have 12gb of Ram. It would be nice if Ubuntu did detect your ram and decide but not force it on people like me who aren't memory constrained. In an abundant memory situation, the device is set up and

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 7 December 2012 22:32, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package > set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running > and > installing Ubuntu. It should be a win for every configuration. Since kernel > 3.8