jackd real time

2012-02-16 Thread Len Ovens
Hello Scott, I took a look at the jackd package. Because ubiquity doesn't seem to allow jackd's config to ask us if we want RT, and the jackd pkg maintainers may not feel the default should be RT true, it seems that for us we need to tell jackd to install rt as if the user had chosen RT true.

Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I understand that I'm not the first to ask this question. In fact, I see at least 10 similar questions at AskUbuntu.com, and many more duplicates: * http://askubuntu.com/search?q=remove+old+kernels This week, I received a message from one of our commercial ISP/Cloud Hosting Providers, saying:

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: I asked about this in IRC yesterday, and Colin Watson pointed me to the computer-janitor utility, which is intended to handle this. Seconds later, Barry Warsaw told me that computer-janitor should die :-) c-j needs attention, but I'm not

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:21:18PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: In c-j 2.0, I worked to separate the backend functionality into a dbus service, with gtk and command-line front-ends. I looked at the debian/changelog to refresh my memory, and that implies the work was done during the Lucid cycle,

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:04:03PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Bear in mind that dbus is not running on servers by default. So that would be a fine solution for the desktop, but there's a larger architectural decision to confront there if we think that should be the solution on servers as

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Mario Limonciello
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 14:16, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:07:58 PM Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:04:03PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Bear in mind that dbus is not running on servers by default. So that would be a

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Kees Cook
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:21:18PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: I asked about this in IRC yesterday, and Colin Watson pointed me to the computer-janitor utility, which is intended to handle this. Seconds later, Barry Warsaw told me that

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 15:40 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: The real question as to the future of c-j is whether it's even the right approach to cleaning up your system. If so, then maybe a bit of engineering to clean it up, better separate the backend from the dbus, ui, and cli interfaces, and

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Feb 16, 2012, at 03:34 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: Yeah, something like this, perhaps with a uname -r check, to also exclude the current kernel you're running, which apparently *is* known to work. Regarding computer-janitor and the dbus

Re: Ubuntu Algorithms Team

2012-02-16 Thread Robin Gloster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This could be interesting for those who want to learn more about algorithms: http://www.algo-class.org/ It is taught by a Stanford professor and will start this month Robin Gloster Am 14.02.2012 10:40, schrieb José Luís Faria: Em 10-02-2012

Re: [ubuntu-za] Having problem with read only disks ? How to change it ?

2012-02-16 Thread Quintin van Rooyen
On 20 January 2012 09:14, Navdeep Singh Sidhu navdeepsingh.sidh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, recently i had installed many tools on my ubuntu 11.10 like gparted , oracle 11g xe, other many more. but i'm facing problem like read only disks with other partition which have ntfs file

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
On 16 February 2012 20:21, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: I asked about this in IRC yesterday, and Colin Watson pointed me to the computer-janitor utility, which is intended to handle this. Seconds later, Barry Warsaw told me that

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Dustin Kirkland [2012-02-16 10:11 -0600]: I don't want to go into all the ways and reasons that the one-liner above is sub-optimal or even evil, but I would like to call attention to the generic problem and suggest that as a distribution, we provide a supported and recommended utility to

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 16 Feb 2012, at 17:24, Henrik Ingo wrote: Clearly I was unclear in my previous email. The 2 year support is not true for any of the alternatives. MySQL gives 5 years (and more for customers that pay), Percona trails MySQL so they also end up doing 5 years (and more for paying

Re: [debian-mysql] [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-16 Thread Fabio T. Leitao
Great stuff, What ever the choice, even if it is to keep MySQL alone, lets remember MySQL will not be dropped ! Any one would still be able to install the Oracle GA if they wanted to (from some repository, probably partner, or even main) If indeed there is a replacement, I can only talk about

/etc/os-release file

2012-02-16 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
Hi devs. I know it's feature freeze now, but could you consider implementing a trivial feature: /etc/os-release file? This file is supposed to standardise basic OS release information. http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html You can also check out the announcement on