Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Dear Jeremy I know ubuntu takes "only" 3.2 kernel when 3.3 is out, but there is a main differences between kernel and gnome: the major kernel bugs are backported into the older releases, with a SRU in 3.2 release cycle, so you don't have to worry about updates. In gnome things are quite differen

Re: Post-natty changes to unity [Was: Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4]

2012-01-06 Thread Dane Mutters
Though I think Unity still needs a -lot- of work, I find it much more usable in Oneiric than it was in Natty. I used it for several months before switching to Gnome 3 in Oneiric, whereas I couldn't stand it for a day in Natty. (Keep up the good work.) I can't speak to whether there have been reg

Re: Post-natty changes to unity [Was: Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4]

2012-01-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On 06/01/12 15:58, Evan Huus wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:41 AM, James Haigh wrote: I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. I find that very interesting. My personal opinion (and the general majority opinion, a

Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 6 January 2012 10:41, James Haigh wrote: > I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, > Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. > > It has become a lot less usable, and a bit less elegant (Eg: Ubuntu > start button thing). Some of the things that drew me to

Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:41:21 + James Haigh wrote: > I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, > Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. > > It has become a lot less usable, and a bit less elegant (Eg: Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 5 January 2012 20:41, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Are you really plan to release ubuntu 12.04 without gnome 3.4 in the > official repository? > > I mean, I can understand you prefere unity as default, but IMAO ubuntu > should provide the latest gnome, like it provides the latest kernel relea

Post-natty changes to unity [Was: Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4]

2012-01-06 Thread Evan Huus
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:41 AM, James Haigh wrote: > I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, > Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. I find that very interesting. My personal opinion (and the general majority opinion, as far as I can tell) is that the On

Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4

2012-01-06 Thread James Haigh
I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. It has become a lot less usable, and a bit less elegant (Eg: Ubuntu start button thing). Some of the things that drew me to Natty have gone. It's not the first time that upgradi

Re: recommended way to build upstream kernel for ubuntu

2012-01-06 Thread Christoph Mathys
Hi Martin On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > If you just need an upstream kernel, you can use > >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/ I fear I need a custom configuration and the preempt rt patchset applied, and the kernel is supposed to run on lucid. Christ

Re: recommended way to build upstream kernel for ubuntu

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Christoph, Christoph Mathys [2012-01-06 9:29 +0100]: > Which is the recommended way to build my own kernel from kernel.org > source on ubuntu? I need header, kernel+modules and occasionally debug > symbols. If you just need an upstream kernel, you can use http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kerne

recommended way to build upstream kernel for ubuntu

2012-01-06 Thread Christoph Mathys
Which is the recommended way to build my own kernel from kernel.org source on ubuntu? I need header, kernel+modules and occasionally debug symbols. The web is full of documentation about make-kpkg. There are a couple of wiki pages for ubuntu that document how to rebuild the ubuntu package for the