Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/
Hi, 2011/11/1 nick rundy nru...@hotmail.com: And one thing Windows does well is make it easy to find an executable file (i.e., it's in C:\Program Files\). This is a joke, right? Finding an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating lacks organization that makes sense to users. You may find the whereis command useful. Eg., | $ whereis gedit | gedit: /usr/bin/gedit /usr/lib/gedit /usr/share/gedit /usr/share/man/man1/gedit.1.gz Most (99.99%) binaries should be in /usr/bin. Some core binaries are in /bin (for technical reasons) and some system administration binaries may be in /sbin (for historical reasons). I'd be happy about an unification here, but as you can see it's not a trivial matter. In case you installed some application manually, it may be in /usr/local/bin or somewhere in /opt. This is so you can separate distribution stuff from other random stuff. Hope this helps, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: ondemand vs conservative
Hey, Google gives me this: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_Dynamic_Frequency_Scaling The ondemand (available since 2.6.10) and conservative (since 2.6.12) are governors based on in kernel implementations of CPU scaling algorithms: they scale the CPU frequencies according to the needs (like does the userspace frequency scaling daemons, but in kernel). They differs in the way they scale up and down. The ondemand governor switches to the highest frequency immediately when there is load, while the conservative governor increases frequency step by step. Likewise they behave the other way round for stepping down frequency when the CPU is idle. The conservative governor is good for battery powered environments on AMD64 (but may not work on older ThinkPads like the T21). Ondemand may not work on older laptops without Enhanced SpeedStep due to latency reasons. Anyway, for recent enough Intel CPU, ondemand is the one recommended for power efficiency (over userspace, and even over powersave) by the Intel's kernel developer Arjan van de Ven -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Codename for Ubuntu 11.04 announced
Since the mailing lists always seem to be the last place where stuff is announced, here you go in case you haven't seen it yet: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478 -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3
2010/8/8 Henrik Johansson dahankz...@gmail.com: I remember some such discussion about the kernel license a while back and that seemed to be the consensus. The problem with Linux's (kernel) license is that it is GPL version 2, not GPL version 2 *or later* (like most project, and in which case no permission is required from anyone to use/distribute it as GPLv3+, since it already is). Because the license doesn't include the or later fragment, permission from all copyright holders is required to change the license. Now the big problem is that many people who contributed to the Linux kernel are no longer reachable to give their consent to the change. I've recently read somewhere that now Linus is encouraging new contributors to include a sentence in their license header authorizing either himself or another prominent kernel developer (at their choice) to change the license to a later GPL version, to reduce this problem for new code changes. I hope this helps. And, IANAL. Cheers, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Updating from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3
2010/8/7 Francesco Fumanti francesco.fuma...@gmx.net: However, some files of the package did not change since the last release of the package. Thus I wonder whether it is allowed to also update the files that did not change from LGPL 2 to LGPL 3. Yeah, sure (assuming that you own the copyright of the files or that their license includes the or later). But the change won't have any real effect until the files change (since people can still get them from an older tarball / branch checkout where they still were LGPL 2). -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: aptitude vs. apt
2010/6/14 Anthony Hook anthony.ho...@gmail.com: In addition, I can do: $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade and as far as I know, apt-get does not have this functionality. $ sudo apt-get upgrade (as opposed to dist-upgrade, which is called full-upgrade in aptitude). -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Goal proposal: Replace gksu because incompatible to at-spi
2010/3/6 Francesco Fumanti francesco.fuma...@gmx.net: Could anybody please confirm that pkexec is intended to start GUI-applications like synaptic and if possible point to some documentation about how to do it (or could anybody explain it to me)? From http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pkexec.1.html: The environment that PROGRAM will run in, will be set to a minimal known and safe environment in order to avoid injecting code through LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar mechanisms. In addition the PKEXEC_UID environment variable is set to the user id of the process invoking pkexec. As a result, pkexec will not allow you to run e.g. X11 applications as another user since the $DISPLAY environment variable is not set. So, it doesn't look like it is. -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)
2010/2/5 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Perhaps he's talking about not to introduce a different photo viewer or instant messenger application every other release. I'm not sure what you mean with this in relation to Ben's message. That's the point why there are releases, and it doesn't necessarily need to be a new application, new major versions of an already present app may introduce regressions or new problems; however, they also add new features, which is why they are introduced. If you don't want the new features, stick to an LTS, if you do, update every six months (and maybe experience some regression or new problem). And no, Ubuntu with it's applications is nowhere near the stability of [...] Windows XP. You are kidding, right? Back to the general topic, personally I'm in favor of a rolling release (and I'm currently using Debian Sid on my main laptop), and I could well see it being feasible having several repositories (normal, testing, experimental) plus branching out LTS releases for business users, but that'd be a rather big change in how Ubuntu currently works, and it's basically up to Canonical to take this decision. Cheers, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.
2010/1/29 Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com: one can shift-alt-tab to move back 1 spot in the list of apps you're alt-tabbing through.. can ubuntu do the same? by default, please? It does. (At least with Metacity, not sure about Compiz as I haven't used that for ages). -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Question about this list
2010/1/28 Amahdy mrjava.java...@gmail.com: What the problem really? when the quoted-text is collapsed and the replies are organized together and simple navigation ... yes I can follow threads at google-groups even if it's with hundred replies, but here my thread with about 10 replies, I opened 10 tabs to see them all and another tab to type this reply! So why are you doing that? Maybe I didn't understand it correctly, but I got the impression that you are reading the messages from the mailing list archives at lists.ubuntu.com using your web browser, which is insane if you're following a list daily (and don't just want to lookup a few old mail, or get a link to them for someone else's reference). The purpose of a mailing list is that you subscribe to it so that you'll get a copy of all mails send there, which you can then handle the way you want with your favorite client (be it mutt, Thunderbird or Gmail's web interface). If you don't want to subscribe, you still could use this interface: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss (where you get all replies to a thread in a single page, and from where you can reply to them with a click). Or this read-only view: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss . Or use a newsgroup reader like someone else already mentioned. Cheers, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Ubuntu Domain Server
You are free to create such a GUI tool, or hire someone to create it, and (if it has sufficient quality and is secure) get it into Ubuntu. 2009/10/25 Steven Susbauer stupendousst...@me.com: Should they be forced to hire a full time IT staff to run oldtownrootbeer.com Why would someone get a server just to host a website (with the associated expenses in equipment, power and bandwith)? Aren't there web hosting companies in your world? Cheers, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Karmic Alpha 6/Beta
2009/10/2 David Curtis dcur...@uniserve.com: If it is true that there are packages/sets of packages that will not get installed through 'apt-get dist-upgrade' during the development cycle GRUB 2 is a special case. It is only (automatically) installed on a clean install, and not on upgrades, given the risk of this operation. -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
