Re: Preload

[sam tygier]

On 14/06/10 23:36, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
> Good day
>
> I have the tingling sensation that this topic has already been up to
> discussion, but I'm going to bring it up anyways.
> Preload is a daemon that monitors what applications the user runs and
> by analysing that data it prefetches the most used data into the RAM so
> to decrease the time needed to launch these applications to which the
> data belongs. This is a package that I always install on a fresh Ubuntu
> box because it makes it faster, quite simply.
>
> So here comes my fairly predictable question: Is there any chance that
> this package can become one of the default packages in an Ubuntu
> installation. If not, then why not?
>

+1

i install it on any machine i install linux on, to speed up application load 
times.

there is a brainstorm entry http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23356/

sam


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Preload

[Rovanion Luckey]

Good day

I have the tingling sensation that this topic has already been up to
discussion, but I'm going to bring it up anyways.
Preload is a daemon that monitors what applications the user runs and
by analysing that data it prefetches the most used data into the RAM so to
decrease the time needed to launch these applications to which the data
belongs. This is a package that I always install on a fresh Ubuntu box
because it makes it faster, quite simply.

So here comes my fairly predictable question: Is there any chance that this
package can become one of the default packages in an Ubuntu installation. If
not, then why not?

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Re: aptitude vs. apt

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck  wrote:
> Chris Jones writes:
>> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's
>> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that
>> can't be done already with other built-in tools.
>
> I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages
> are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't.
>

dpkg -l "baz*"

not good enough for you?

For more robust syntax use dpkg-query

> Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude
> (and without firing up a gui program)?  Certainly aptitude isn't
> perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even
> if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with
> other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly
> long shell pipeline.
>
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Re: aptitude vs. apt

[Tim Hawkins]

apt-cache search

On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:03 AM, Akkana Peck wrote:

> Chris Jones writes:
>> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's
>> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that
>> can't be done already with other built-in tools.
> 
> I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages
> are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't.
> 
> Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude
> (and without firing up a gui program)?  Certainly aptitude isn't
> perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even
> if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with
> other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly
> long shell pipeline.
> 
>   ...Akkana
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Re: aptitude vs. apt

[Akkana Peck]

Chris Jones writes:
> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's
> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that
> can't be done already with other built-in tools.

I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages
are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't.

Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude
(and without firing up a gui program)?  Certainly aptitude isn't
perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even
if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with
other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly
long shell pipeline.

...Akkana

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Re: UDS 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 dates

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 01:25 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> On 06/08/2010 12:08 AM, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> >  11.10 UDS - May 9-13 (2011)
> 
> We should change this one, the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin will be on May 11-14.
> 
> See http://www.linuxtag.de/.
> 
I would not have thought this is a major enough conference for us to
worry about?  It's not one that we generally have a mass presence at,
for example.

There will always be conflicts at any date.

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Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

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Ryan Oram wrote on 05/05/10 23:44:
> 
> Ubuntu needs a change in direction. I propose that Ubuntu adopt a
> development model where only the core operating system, userland, core
> libraries, and desktop environment are frozen every 6 months. The
> applications would then be freely updated to the newest versions at
> all times. Package maintenance and support for the end-user
> applications would be provided by the developers themselves.
>...

We're making a small step towards this in Maverick, with the ability for
application developers to submit packages for an Ubuntu version after
that version has been released.


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Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 43, Issue 19

[Chris Jones]

>
> It might be worth pointing out that aptitude is preferred over apt-get
> in Debian [1]:
>
>The preferred program for package management from the command line
>is aptitude, which can perform the same package management functions
>as apt-get and has proven to be better at dependency resolution.
>
> dpkg is not usable for package management and gdebi only makes
> installing local deb packages easier by resolving dependencies.
>
> Regards,
> Ansgar
>
> [1] <
> http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt
> >
>


Thanks for your comments mate. I never claimed that dpkg and gdebi done any
more than just that. I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's
functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that
can't be done already with other built-in tools.

But as pointed out already, it seems my wish has come true. Aptitude will be
included only by default in Server Edition of Maverick.

Regards


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