Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

2016-09-12 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > > Le 11 septembre 2016 21:43:03 UTC+03:00, Ralf Mardorf > a écrit : > >>That's entirely true. For users who don't need the user-friendliness >>provided by Ubuntu there are anyway better distros available to "tune" >>weak computers

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

2016-09-11 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Europe. Simos > 2016-09-09 3:00 GMT+02:00 Simos Xenitellis : >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Thierry Andriamirado >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Le 8 septembre 2016 01:35:05 UTC+03:00, John Moser >> > a écrit : >> >>

Re: [Fwd: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available]

2016-09-11 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Do, 2016-09-08 at 16:56 +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I tried the instructions at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/st >> art/ >> in order to get the new Beta images at

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

2016-09-08 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > > Le 8 septembre 2016 01:35:05 UTC+03:00, John Moser a > écrit : >> >>> There are countless very old computers running Ubuntu, in Developing >>> Countries. >>> >> >>It's not my fault nobody counted. > > It's nobody's fault: many of

Re: [Fwd: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available]

2016-09-08 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Do, 2016-09-08 at 16:56 +0300, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I tried the instructions at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/st >> art/ >> in order to get the new Beta images at

Re: [Fwd: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available]

2016-09-08 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, I tried the instructions at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/ in order to get the new Beta images at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-snappy/16.04/current/ to work on locally on KVM on Linux. Two issues: 1. The command to start kvm should better be like kvm -m 512M -redir :8

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

2016-09-07 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Ryan Cunningham wrote: > > I have heard recently that Ubuntu has plans to cancel support for processors > in the Intel 80386 family (and clones of the same). This is impacting me > because I have a 32-bit Ubuntu machine (powered by an Intel 80586) which runs > Ub

Rebooting hangs for 60 seconds if zfsutils-linux is installed (on DigitalOcean, 16.04)

2016-05-12 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Hi All, I noticed that if you 1. create a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 VPS on DigitalOcean 2. install the package "zfsutils-linux" 3. reboot then the rebooting hangs for exactly 60 seconds with the message on the console: A start job is running for udev Waiting Service Initialization (55s / 3m

Fwd: Sound not working on 15.04 if Pulseaudio is fully localised (affects: el, it, pl, pt_BR, sk, sv, tr, uk, more)

2015-04-20 Thread Simos Xenitellis
ffected. Simos -- Forwarded message ------ From: Simos Xenitellis Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:39 PM Subject: Sound not working on 15.04 if Pulseaudio is fully localised (affects: el, it, pl, pt_BR, sk, sv, tr, uk, more) To: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com, Ubuntu Translators < ubuntu-translat..

Re: Ubuntu phone feedback

2015-04-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Nikita wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > a couple of week ago I received my Ubuntu phone, I've been using it > since and I must say I am pretty happy > with it. I would like to give you some feedback with my comments that > y

Re: virtualbox dependency

2014-12-03 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Scott Richardson wrote: > virtualbox-qt (4.3.10-dfsg-1) requires virtualbox-dkms. Without this, I get > the following error when I try to start a virtual machine: > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) > > The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either n

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-06 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Ben Tinner wrote: > Hello > > I am planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu which will have the GNOME 2 > look and feel. For those of you who are subscribed to ubuntu-users, you > would have heard about my plans to create this (Anyone interested in a > "GNOME 2 lo

Re: Reporting bugs directly to Launchpad?

2013-08-02 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > I must have missed some new revision, as I no longer seem to be able to > post bugs directly to launchpad. I go to > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/saucy > > and click on "Report a bug" o

Re: Many, many serious problems with Ubuntu

2013-07-25 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Dale Amon wrote: > I have held back from putting in this report for a very long time > as my experience reading this list has led me to believe that no > one will much care because Granny Would Never Do That and she > certainly Would Never Know How to Do That. > >