[ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
Anybody seen this, will it be coming to Ubuntu soon? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402?tag=nl.e011 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
On 7 February 2012 08:58, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody seen this, will it be coming to Ubuntu soon? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402?tag=nl.e011 Compiz isn't dead: https://code.launchpad.net/compiz-core -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
On 07/02/12 08:58, scoundrel50a wrote: Anybody seen this, will it be coming to Ubuntu soon? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402?tag=nl.e011 Ubuntu 12.04 will ship with Compiz in April. That will be supported for 5 years on the desktop. Compiz is a core component of Unity, in fact Unity is implemented as a Compiz plugin. Also note Canonical employs Sam Spilsbury who works on Compiz. Cheers, Al. -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home networks, running different devices, OSes and backing up
On 2012-02-04 09:39, Byte Soup wrote: Id like to hear opinions, experience and advice from those of you who have a home network with multiple devices from iPods to PCs, and what you do to back them up and centralise the data but also make the data available in places where you need it. I use BackupPC to backup everything. Just run SSHd or Samba on everything, and configure it to back them up. I back up my Linux PCs from / down, excepting a few directories that are dynamic or temporary or caches. I back up my Android devices by installing QuickSSHd and backing up /data, /sdcard, and /system. Also when it comes to backing up, lets say you have a server that runs weekly backups of devices on the network, how do you avoid it backing up and overwriting a file if a user has infected some files on one of the devices with malware? If you have incremental backups, how much more space will you need? With BackupPC, which uses deduplication and compression, it keeps only the changes. Other incrementals reference the last full. Even the fulls are pooled so that space is saved. I have found the savings are about 10:1 over raw copies of the data. For instance, from my home server: Pool is 149.46GB comprising 1262847 files and 4369 directories (as of 2012-02-07 12:07). There are 11 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of: 162 full backups of total size 1909.77GB (prior to pooling and compression) 114 incr backups of total size 42.40GB (prior to pooling and compression) Regards, Tyler -- ... jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. -- Noam Chomsky, in Understanding Power -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
Anybody know why Ubuntu seems to be the only one using Compiz now, and why all the other distros have dropped it, and what will they use instead? On 07/02/2012 10:06, Alan Pope wrote: On 07/02/12 08:58, scoundrel50a wrote: Anybody seen this, will it be coming to Ubuntu soon? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402?tag=nl.e011 Ubuntu 12.04 will ship with Compiz in April. That will be supported for 5 years on the desktop. Compiz is a core component of Unity, in fact Unity is implemented as a Compiz plugin. Also note Canonical employs Sam Spilsbury who works on Compiz. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
On 7 February 2012 12:48, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody know why Ubuntu seems to be the only one using Compiz now, and why all the other distros have dropped it, and what will they use instead? As the article says, many distros have turned to Mutter. As Alan said, Unity is a Compiz plugin, which is why Ubuntu is essentially committed to it. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood more of a stain than a globule -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
I think its a mix of this development problems at Compiz and the resultant instability/ability to break your system. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/to-sam-the-face-behind-the-wobbly-window/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/should-ccsm-be-purged-from-the-ubuntu-repos/ j On 7 February 2012 13:02, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2012 12:48, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody know why Ubuntu seems to be the only one using Compiz now, and why all the other distros have dropped it, and what will they use instead? As the article says, many distros have turned to Mutter. As Alan said, Unity is a Compiz plugin, which is why Ubuntu is essentially committed to it. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood more of a stain than a globule -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........
On 7 February 2012 13:05, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.comwrote: I think its a mix of this development problems at Compiz and the resultant instability/ability to break your system. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/to-sam-the-face-behind-the-wobbly-window/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/should-ccsm-be-purged-from-the-ubuntu-repos/ I have to agree with this: on my desktop, 11.10 64-bit, 1Gb Nvidia card, compiz takes 20-30% of CPU at all times. This is actually an improvement on the initial release when it would regularily spin up to 60-70%. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood more of a stain than a globule -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
