On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:06:09PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Robert > Wall<robertlikesturt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 18:50 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > >> What is the best way to describe https://ubuntuone.com/ to attendees? > >> > >> The wikipedia page [1] has a pretty good summary "Ubuntu One is a > >> storage application and service operated by Canonical Ltd and > >> currently in private beta." It currently requires an Ubuntu 9.04 > >> Jaunty (or 9.10 Karmic) machine for now but I don't know of any > >> announced or rumored plans to expand that. > >> > >> Grant Bowman > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam > >> > >> > >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_One also links to some of the > >> controversy over the naming. > > > > Another thing that may be important (and which may be of interest to > > OSCON people, if we're going to get Ubuntu One questions): in Karmic, > > ubuntu-desktop now recommends ubuntuone-client-gnome [1], which means > > that new installs of Ubuntu Karmic will have the client by default (and, > > if I remember correctly, many users will get it when upgrading Jaunty to > > Karmic). > > > > [1] This was effected about eight hours ago. the relevant diff for > > ubuntu-meta (the source package for ubuntu-desktop) is > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29048341/ubuntu-meta_1.152_1.153.diff.gz > > Wow, that seems a little bit of a forward leaning decision to me. I > wonder if it will ship that way. Thanks for keeping us updated. I > would be surprised if nobody mentioned this little change during the > show.
Yeah, perhaps if someone sounds disappointed in its inclusion, we can mention that it is uninstallable. OSS = choice, as a friend recently twittered. Joe -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
