Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 23

[Nick Brandon]

On 12 Jul 2010, at 12:07, Andrew Woodhead wrote:

> RE: boot livecd to ram etc:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/25496
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2630/
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM
> 
> I believe it's a feature in the new kernel to copy casper and/or system in 
> the live environment to ram but it seems to take a lot of tweaks. I'm tempted 
> to do it with my test box but i dont have time right now.
> 

Potentially this feature has been available for at least two years (I first 
tried it with 8.04) but as you say ubuntu needs quite a few tweaks to get it 
working.

Thanks
Nick-- 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 23

[Andrew Woodhead]

RE: boot livecd to ram etc:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/25496

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2630/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM

I believe it's a feature in the new
kernel to copy casper and/or system in the live environment to ram but it
seems to take a lot of tweaks. I'm tempted to do it with my test box but i
dont have time right now.



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> I'm interested, but what tweaks have you made? Just the main ones will do.
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:20 +0100
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> On 6 July 2010 20:40, Nick Brandon  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...
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> Adding back in the complexity that Ubuntu's designers carefully
> removed is /not/ improving the distro.
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> Terrible kludgeware such as Automatix only recreated this problem.
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> 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.
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:06:13 +0100
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