2008/11/3 James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Perhaps we need some sort of tool installed by default that removes
> packages that are no longer needed, and may be considered cruft :-)
>
I'd agree the word "cruft" is unsuitable given the fact that it's a geek phrase.
By way of an unscientific test
2008/11/3 Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic
> feature which tells me about the differences between a standard
> install and the current set of installed packages. One can purge
> package by package until {Synaptic, apt-get,...} w
2008/11/9 Dean Loros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Where is the "white-list" located? I have several extra programs
> installed & would like to verify that this part works...you can respond
> here, PM me thru ubuntuforums or contact me at autocrosser1 at gmail.com
>
See the bug report listed in the fir
2008/11/21 Terry Sikes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I did run across the idea of apt repositories on DVD, is anyone aware of
> such .iso files for developer tools (8.04 compatible)? It'd be great to just
> use Synaptic with a DVD.
>
Repo on a usb disk/stick? That way you can take it to another machine
t
Hi Francesco,
2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Could anybody please tell me when the updates of Ubuntu 8.10 will be
> released?
>
What makes you think 8.10 _will_ have a respin/update to the ISO?
As far as I can see only LTS (Long Term Support) releases (6.06 and
8.04 so far)
2009/1/7 Richard Tattersall :
> CLI is also useful for support/guides, because rather than lots of "click
> here, then here, then here" all you need is to copy and paste commands in a
> terminal.
>
I suspect this is where many of our new users are introduced to the
command line. We have had a fa
2009/1/7 Remco :
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of
>> "apt-get install" with "click apt://" :) (note for the humour
>> impaired, this is not a serious suggestion, b
2009/2/15 Mike Jones :
> Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
> this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
> better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
> bit thrown off.
>
It's the sequence of lett
2009/2/15 Alex Cockell :
> Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years
> ago... Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers
> in time for them to print new manuals?
>
This discussion is abou
2009/3/18 Alexander Sack :
> Is there any reason why we don't overlay /home? Just so that you can
> test upgrade for existing configs?
>
That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For
example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using
aufs and then proceed
2009/4/1 richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk :
> Is this a known bug or do I file a new bug report ?
>
Tip: Read the release notes at
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta specifically
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta#Known%20issues
"Some users of Intel i8x5 video chipsets are unable to lo
2009/4/22 Vincenzo Ciancia :
> Il giorno mer, 22/04/2009 alle 15.19 +0100, richard ha scritto:
>>
>> richar...@richard-g8jvm:~/eagle-5.5.0/bin$ ldd ./eagle
>> not a dynamic executable
>>
>
> The output from "file eagle"?
>
Assuming it's eagle the circuit board design software, then "eagle"
2009/4/26 Jan Claeys :
> Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny
> Piccirillo:
>> Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =]
>
> Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote. ;-)
>
> That makes it much faster to read mail!
>
It's also faster (and cheaper) fo
2009/6/17 Danny Piccirillo :
> Let's all refrain from a mono flamewar.
2009/6/19 Danny Piccirillo :
> And sadly, Banshee (mono) may soon be replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu
>
Lets not go down that road huh?
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2009/6/20 Vincenzo Ciancia :
> I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb
> cover the basic needs one may have. I sometimes wanted to use f-spot but the
> fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives an "alien" and
> feeling to it, in the sense that it se
Hi Sense,
2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede :
> 2) I mentioned removing Mono from the LiveCD because when F-Spot is
> gone, just one Mono application remains on the LiveCD: Tomboy. Tomboy
> is something that's definitely worth including on the LiveCD. However,
> this single program does require a whole lan
2009/7/27 Sebastien Bacher :
> Wouldn't it make sense to rather try contacting the maintainer or the
> ubuntu mozilla team about the issue or to open a bug on launchpad so you
> can get a reply from the people doing the changes?
>
..or read his blog post about it :)
http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/a
2009/8/26 Mat Tomaszewski :
> - Ubuntu documentation (help.ubuntu.com) – very information-rich
> resource but very beginner-unfriendly (lots of technical jargon)
> - Forums – lots of information noise, very difficult to locate the right
> thread (or even find out where to start) to someone not alre
2009/8/27 Dotan Cohen :
> 2009/8/27 Jonathan Taylor :
>> I have tried Ubuntu several time over the past 5 years. I usually get so
>> frustrated that I go back to Windows XP. This week, I installed Ubuntu 9.04
>> on my Laptop. I spent yesterday trying to install Flash and Real Player 11.
>> I fa
2009/9/15 Markus Hitter :
> It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop-
> amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track?
>
Go to bed and test some more tomorrow. There's been some fairly major
changes in the boot process, including stuff like dbus and gdm which
are a bit f
2009/10/7 Przemysław Kulczycki :
> Hi devs.
> I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently
> noticed after Karmic is released:
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136
Sorry, I thought it might be a dupe of 412152, but that might not be
2009/10/13 George Farris :
> No that turns on icons for everything. I'm saying that Applications and
> Places have icons but System doesn't and that looks unfinished and not
> consistent. A paper cut if you will.
>
Indeed, I have thought for a while that there was going to be some new
icons arri
2009/12/9 Caleb Marcus :
> The bizarrely obnoxious bit about F-Spot import is that it copies everything
> to your photos folder BEFORE you actually accept the import. Then, if you
> don't accept it, it deletes them... which is just Bad Behavior.
>
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-s
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:16:07PM -0800, Shentino wrote:
>Just curious, would adding a "support ticket" system of some sort help?
>Not sure about the nitty gritties of how they work under the hood but it's
>a common support feature I've observed in other systems both amateur and
>p
2010/1/25 Amahdy :
> Here is the middle of thing, have the splash splitted out into two parts,
> the upper is the graphical splash and the lower part is the traditional
> text-boot with [green(OK)] or [red(fail)]
> Even maybe with a scrollbar to scroll through the log if needed...
>
We moved away
Hi Timo,
On 7 February 2010 14:16, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> a) Is anyone aware of some earlier discussions on the topic wrt Ubuntu
> and b) Would everyone agree that it would make a lot of sense?
>
Perhaps if some of the more irritating bugs in usb_modeswitch and
network_manager around 3g connectio
On 7 March 2010 19:47, Martin Owens wrote:
> Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available
> and of course just as silly to not position it with other things in
> mind.
>
Have you looked at OpenERP?
It exists already, is written in python, is in the repo, has great
sup
On 19 March 2010 12:55, Rene Veerman wrote:
> by the looks of it i can't even delete 'm from launchpad.. :S
>
You can. On the right hand side see "Bug attachments". Click 'edit'
next to the one you want to delete then click "Delete attachment"
button.
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On 24 March 2010 14:10, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 3/24/2010 9:54 AM, Evan wrote:
>> Why? I'm sure there are reasons, but my initial reaction is that any
>> computer which can easily be stolen (ie laptop/netbook) should
>> NEVER have auto-login enabled.
>
> Why? Given physical access to the machine
Hi Danny,
On 9 June 2010 17:57, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> Of course it is! At least according to our
> philosophy: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy
>
> Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free
> software in practice.
Where "many people" == "t
On 8 April 2011 18:38, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> I'm assuming most developers and power users use point to focus, as
> we do. Having the menu in the taskbar creates a unique problem for point to
> focus users;
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/674138
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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
On 23 September 2011 21:56, Allison Randal wrote:
> While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about
> that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle.
> What's on your mind?
>
Full proxy support for all core applications. Given P is an LTS it
would
of it just randomly hanging #955839,
scrolling slowly and taking ages to load avatars:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES6c1vub9Y
Both of these just recorded on a core i7 / 8GB with not a lot going on.
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> the phonecalls' list and other data.
>
Google is your friend. :)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/610640/where-are-sms-and-mms-stored
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lling various other samba packages including
libsmbclient but I get the same issue every time.
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doesn't seem to have happened. If we don't plan
on fixing these (new user) facing issues, is it time to retire wubi
from the images?
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[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1471344
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wnloads⟫ sudo mount -o loop
ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso ./iso
[sudo] password for alan:
mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
alan@deep-thought:~/Downloads⟫ ls -l iso/wubi.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2573712 Oct 17 2014 iso/wubi.exe
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Hi,
On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall wrote:
>>> Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and
>>> supporting it a while back. As far as
d near zero
maintenance led me to believe it was dead.
As per my previous reply to Dimitri, I don't think anyone will be
tasked with looking after this in Canonical in the short term. If
someone wants to step up and take over maintenance, testing and
release, we'd love to hear from them.
hard to help?
>
Blame spammers completely covering the wiki with dodgy links. We had
to do something and this was the least worst option, sorry.
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rfect solution. It's now harder for people to
do drive by edits, and we (admins) are getting numerous spurious
requests to join the team every day and have that extra workload to
deal with.
We're also investigating other options of course.
Thanks for alerting us to the omission. That p
page and causes more work for numerous people.
Just join the team on launchpad, logout and back into the wiki and
then edits can be made.
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c who sell new PATA
SSDs, still.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingspec-128GB-Solid-Notebook-Laptop/dp/B00HWOYY72
Good for bringing a speed boost, and life to older computers. I know a
few people who use them, and swear by them.
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s of that
occuring.
More discussion over on the Ubuntu discourse.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/defaulting-to-verify-the-image-integrity-before-installing-on-desktop/13472
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ite long for each boot (Pressing Ctrl-C does nothing).
>
Do you have a bug tracking the fact that CTRL+C doesn't work?
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Hi Martin,
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:44 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote:
> I noticed that trackerd is running by default in Gutsy Tribe 5. Is this
> information sent to Canonical?
trackerd is a daemon that indexes your files so that the tracker applet
can find content for you on your computer quickly
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