Re: [Desktop12.04-Topic] Desktop performances

2011-10-04 Thread Evan Broder
We now have a lot of infrastructure for evaluating and improving boot time. But all of the evaluation we've done has been under ideal situations - namely on filesystems that readahead well with a pre-populated ureadahead pack. But when people try Ubuntu for the first time, their experience won't b

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Integrate unity-2d/Qt / install media space

2011-04-07 Thread Evan Broder
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > I expect that in practice pretty much everyone uses usb-creator and > USB sticks with the current ISOs anyway. The 700 MB limit still serves > as a good boundary because with every 100 MB it grows we'll lose some > people who are able to downloa

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Integrate unity-2d/Qt / install media space

2011-04-07 Thread Evan Broder
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > In the last years we fell victim to an ever-growing set of language > runtimes and toolkits, but I realize that getting rid of each of them > is hard. So if we want to keep adding new features without removing > others, we might also eventually