Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Andy Braben
> >> > > Alan - That is quite interesting. > > Gordon - Yes perhaps 10.04 is the most commonly used on that basis, by the > way, Google reported your message with this "This message may not have been > sent by: g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition

2011-08-18 Thread James Morrissey
In case this helps anyone, i stumbled on a way to get this working. Process is posted on the launchpad page. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/168297/+index j On 18 August 2011 09:53, James Morrissey wrote: > Sure, > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/168297 > > Need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Hanson
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 18/08/11 14:07, Dave Hanson wrote: > >> I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write "Ubuntu >> 10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time >> of writing" >> >> 10.04 is the latest L

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Alan Pope
On 18 August 2011 14:13, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > 10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the version > most likely to be used by commercial and business operations. LTS versions > are released every two years so the next one will be 12.04. > The intermediate releases t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/08/11 14:07, Dave Hanson wrote: I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write "Ubuntu 10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time of writing" 10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the version most likely to be used b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Alan Pope
On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson wrote: > Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version > of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? in his recent blog post, Mark Shuttleworth indicated that using the user-agent strings in wikipedia access logs was o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Hanson
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which >> version of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? >> >> > 'Accurately' is an almost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Tony Pursell
On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version > of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? > > 'Accurately' is an almost impossible task. There may be download figures, but perhaps not sta

[ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

2011-08-18 Thread Dave Hanson
Hello Everyone, Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

2011-08-18 Thread Alan Pope
On 18 August 2011 11:05, Tony Pursell wrote: > Yes, it's to celebrate having 1 million U1 users.  Hope they have 5 millions > GBs somewhere, just in case :-) > Heh. I expect they do the same kind of file de-duplication that other similar services (e.g. dropbox) do. So if you and I both store the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

2011-08-18 Thread Tony Pursell
On 18 August 2011 09:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > Just reconnected to Ubuntu One and noticed that the free accounts have gone > up from 2GB to 5! > > Good stuff! > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition

2011-08-18 Thread James Morrissey
Sure, https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/168297 Need to get back to the reply, will do so when i get home from work this evening. j On 18 August 2011 08:14, Colin Law wrote: > On 17 August 2011 16:08, James Morrissey wrote: >> In the end i went with the 32 bit version. I tried ins

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

2011-08-18 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Just reconnected to Ubuntu One and noticed that the free accounts have gone up from 2GB to 5! Good stuff! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition

2011-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 17 August 2011 16:08, James Morrissey wrote: > In the end i went with the 32 bit version. I tried installing 64 bit > 10.04 (which worked) and auto-upgrading but the system hung (after > about half and hour) when upgrading to 10.10. > > I have posted something on launchpad. Please post a link