Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 24, Issue 49

2007-04-24 Thread Green, Matthew A.
PassivePROFITS (a.k.a PP) Wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post to the list. I'm new to both > Lunux and Ubuntu, though I've tried on and off over > the last 10 years to get a linux installation working, > finally, with Ubuntu, I've done it (or more accurately > the OS community has!!). > >

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Davies \(2\)
Hi All, Does anyone know when Ubuntu Studio is coming out? Thanks, Ian Davies -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:29:06PM +0100, Ian Davies (2) wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Does anyone know when Ubuntu Studio is coming out? > > >From #ubuntustudio on irc:- " Our 1st release will be out when its out. We're aiming for April." There is a an Open Week [0] session scheduled on Satur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 23.04.2007 at 22:14 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > I'm surprised about the kernal level - I'd have thought with all the > tooing and froing about running virtual machines and so on just lately > that the projects would be clamboring to get the virtualisation stuff > into the main line 2.6.2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 24.04.2007 at 14:04 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Examples of each: > > Clustering: OpenMOSIX, MOSIX Virtualisation: VMware, Xen Parallel: any > multi-threaded application Sorry, wrapped that bit by mistake: Clustering: OpenMOSIX, MOSIX Virtualisation: VMware, Xen Parallel: any multi

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Thomas Steffen
H Ian On 4/22/07, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the many topics that have my interest at the moment is that of high performance computing by using cluster / parallel computing. Can Ubuntu support this without a lot of hacking around? That depends a bit on your software. The m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:29 +0100, Ian Davies (2) wrote: > Does anyone know when Ubuntu Studio is coming out? Hi. I work on UbuntuStudio, and at the moment we are just fixing some bugs with the discs and getting all the packages in line. We hope not to have the release delayed much longer. -- ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 24.04.2007 at 17:26 +0100, Thomas Steffen wrote: > >One of the many topics that have my interest at the moment is that of > >high performance computing by using cluster / parallel computing. > >Can Ubuntu support this without a lot of hacking around? > > That depends a bit on your sof

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Pascoe
Dave Ah-ha! thanks for clearing that up - I admit that the articles I have read so far seemed to use the terms interchangeably. Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Ewart Sent: 24 April 2007 14:04 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject:

[ubuntu-uk] FW: Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Pascoe
Sorry, missing the trick here what is Ubuntu Studio? Can I have an URL to go and look at please? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Toby Smithe Sent: 24 April 2007 17:29 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Studio On Tue, 20

[ubuntu-uk] Virtualisation and ClientsClinets was High Performance Computing

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Pascoe
I admit I'm being lazy here, but is it possible to run different OS's from the same server - virtualisation - out to a thin client processor? I have just seen some niffty thin client processors at work, and wondered about the ability to do this so that when the LUG gives public dmos, for example,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread charlie turner
Google more than happy to help. I typed "Ubuntu Studio" in and got plenty of infomation. On 24/04/07, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, missing the trick here what is Ubuntu Studio? Can I have an URL to go and look at please? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: Ubuntu Studio

2007-04-24 Thread Stephen Morrish
http://www.ubuntustudio.com/ I think it looks cool just for the skin, I know there is a large group working on this and a bit mean of me to I want it for how it looks. I love dark look but it's tough to find one that works. There is a difference between cool and functional. -- Regards Steve Morr

[ubuntu-uk] VNC colours and fonts

2007-04-24 Thread Tony Travis
I've had problems with VNC under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS when some X11 clients report colours are not defined, or when fonts are not displayed at all! I'm using TightVNC client and server, and all the applications work fine under X11. The colour problem has been discussed quite a lot around the Inter

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 24, Issue 49

2007-04-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:10 +0100, Green, Matthew A. wrote: > PassivePROFITS (a.k.a PP) Wrote: > > 2. Can I back up direct from / (ex3) to NTFS > > (or do I need to format current NTFS to ex3 1st? > > > I don't think (not 100% sure) you'll be able to write to NTFS (excluding > experimental