Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers (pete)
I'm interested, but what tweaks have you made? Just the main ones will do. Dino T. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers
On 6 July 2010 20:40, Nick Brandon maill...@css-uk.net wrote: Over the past few weeks I've been adapting the live CD, trying out a number of different configurations. Ultimately I'd like it to be more useable out of the box for me as a UK user and genuinely I'm quite pleased with the results. I'm toying with the idea of making it available to the wider public to see if it would be useful for other new users of ubuntu. Before doing that however, I'd like a few people to try it out and report their feedback. Has anyone got a recommendation on where would be best to promote it so I could find, say 20 - 30 to make it reasonable, volunteers to try it out? That being said if anyone here would be interested in trying it out it please send me an email. It wouldn't take more than 30 - 60 mins and all you need is a laptop/desktop PC with a DVD drive and preferably 2GB of memory. Just a small note of caution... I suspect that quite a few of the things that really enhance the Ubuntu experience can't be implemented on a LiveCD or can't be implemented for legal reasons. E.g., proprietary hardware drivers, Flash, MP3, Quicktime, DVD support and so on. The other more general point is to understand that /your/ enhancements are not everybody's. I think Ubuntu's choice of components has been very carefully chosen to be nicely generic. The utimate edition, for instance, contains a lot of what I would consider to be bloatware and crap. http://ultimateedition.info/ The whole point of Ubuntu was that it contained one single best-of-breed example of each category of application: one office suite, one browser, one media player, etc. This is one of the reasons it's succeeded, in the face of many competing distros which offer 12 desktops, 6 web browsers, 4 word processors, 86 calculators and so on. Adding back in the complexity that Ubuntu's designers carefully removed is /not/ improving the distro. Terrible kludgeware such as Automatix only recreated this problem. So be very very careful selecting what you think are essential additions and improvements. You might find many people would disagree with you and you will end up detracting from Ubuntu's essential simplicity, cleanness and elegance. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2 motherboard
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:32 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: Ahh in that case it isn't too bad depending on which Phenom X4 it is. Then Phenom II X4 is a superior CPU to the Phenom X4 (I had a Phenom X4 and although it was a great CPU and a real step up from the Athlon 64 I had before, it wasn't as great performance as the newer Athlon II and Phenom II CPUs). Thanks for all your advice. I finally made a decision not to make a decision yet!! I'm going to see what is around in early October and get a new mobo bundle then. I've got a fairly busy rest-of-Summer, so I'll go for something in the Autumn. If anyone sees something looking really good at that time, please post! Thanks again for all your notes of caution etc. Spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday doing some work in Windows XP because I was already set up to deal with it. Oh, how glad I was to get back to Ubuntu. A friend of mine has just bought a Mac because he was getting really cheesed off with Windows. He uses a Mac at work. I told him about Ubuntu and I'm going round there soon to put it on his old Windows box. That box is no slouch - it's around 1200 MHz with a huge hard drive and loads of ram, so I know he's going to be over the moon with Ubuntu. Barry Drake. -- Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment that gives me real fresh air. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers
I am quite interested in the running from memory concept, I guess you are somehow copying the entire CD to a ramdisk or something and mounting that over the filesystem, thereby trading a bit of loading time for it running like a greased whippet when fully loaded. This sounds to me like it might be a worthy performance compromise and give a rather good impression to the new user. I would rather stick to the standard packages and configuration though (maybe dropping something if more room is needed for the in-memory CD thing) if you have improvements to the base configuration then the best thing to do is to work on getting them into the main CD, there are sessions at UDS where everyone can participate on deciding what goes in. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
