[ubuntu-uk] The JACK audio system

2010-07-16 Thread Andrew Bryant
Does anyone here know how the JACK system works? There are some pretty basic concepts that don't make any sense to me, and I can't persuade their mailing lists to give me a functional login. I won't bore you all with my questions unless there's a chance someone can answer them. Andrew -- ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 16 July 2010 21:21, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > > I really, really cannot wait for btrfs. :) > > Tyler Why wait? It works already - I have my Maverick / as btrfs. It is, however, noticeably slower than EXT4 in certain situations at the moment. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote: > Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found > something about this when googling about EXT4). Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will be faster for copying large files. Regards, Tyler

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 16 July 2010 20:53:56 Rob Beard wrote: > So considering the large files, would anyone recommend EXT3 or EXT4? Tony outlined the problem with upgrading ext3 to ext4, so I have just this to add: use ext4. There is no reason, exempting some fears caused by problems in early releases, not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Beard
On 16/07/10 21:09, Tony Travis wrote: > On 16/07/10 20:53, Rob Beard wrote: >> [...] >> Now at the moment I've got my drive formatted to EXT3, I gather I can >> convert from EXT3 to EXT4 (but I'm going to reformat the drive anyway) >> but I wondered basically if I might be better going for EXT4 thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Tony Travis
On 16/07/10 20:53, Rob Beard wrote: > [...] > Now at the moment I've got my drive formatted to EXT3, I gather I can > convert from EXT3 to EXT4 (but I'm going to reformat the drive anyway) > but I wondered basically if I might be better going for EXT4 this time? Hello, Rob. Yes, you can convert f

[ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, I've decided that I need a clear out of some of the junk on my laptop so I'm going to do a fresh install from scratch, most probably with Ubuntu 10.04 32-Bit (was considering 10.10 but I'm probably going to wait for a Beta before trying it, or try it in Virtual Box). I had my old har

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid text mode installer

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Beard
On 16/07/10 18:50, Anton Piatek wrote: > I am trying to install lucid on my desktop and can't manage to get the > text mode installer on the alternate cd - am I missing something? > The screen comes up with an out of range resolution on the annoying > Intel chip, so need text mode (pretty sure the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid text mode installer

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Beard
On 16/07/10 18:50, Anton Piatek wrote: > I am trying to install lucid on my desktop and can't manage to get the > text mode installer on the alternate cd - am I missing something? > The screen comes up with an out of range resolution on the annoying > Intel chip, so need text mode (pretty sure the

[ubuntu-uk] Lucid text mode installer

2010-07-16 Thread Anton Piatek
I am trying to install lucid on my desktop and can't manage to get the text mode installer on the alternate cd - am I missing something? The screen comes up with an out of range resolution on the annoying Intel chip, so need text mode (pretty sure the live cd worked ok, but I want to reuse the lvm