Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:29 AM Bryan Quigley wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: >> Hello Mark, >> On 05/05/2018 01:15 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> >> > First, we have Curtin, which knows how to take a

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 09.05.2018 22:29, Bryan Quigley wrote: Additionally, we'd have to bring Chromium up to the requirements (snappy edition) for Main. (which I wouldn't mind, but doesn't make sense just for this) Maybe use Servo or Surf instead ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-12 Thread Aaron Honeycutt
Is there a reason why we can't use Calamares or the new Elementary/Pop!_OS installer for the desktop and leave MASS/Curtin for the server and such? On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:29 AM Bryan Quigley wrote: > > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Simon Quigley

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 11:30, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < i...@metux.net> wrote: > On 05.05.2018 08:15, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi folks, > > Third, we have Electron, which is the HTML5 app framework used by world > class app developers. Skype, Spotify and a ton of GREAT apps on >

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-10 Thread Chris MacNaughton
Hey Mark / Simon, > >> Third, we have Electron, which is the HTML5 app framework used by world >> class app developers. Skype, Spotify and a ton of GREAT apps on Ubuntu >> are Electron apps. > I respectfully disagree that this is the correct approach for a system > installer. With all due respect

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-10 Thread Bryan Quigley
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello Mark, > > On 05/05/2018 01:15 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > > First, we have Curtin, which knows how to take a description of a > > machine and do-the-right-thing; partitioning, installing, and cleaning > > up.

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 05.05.2018 08:15, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Hi folks, Third, we have Electron, which is the HTML5 app framework used by world > class app developers. Skype, Spotify and a ton of GREAT apps on Ubuntu> are Electron apps. quite frankly: I wouldn't count things Skype to "world class". It

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2018, 18:31 -0500 schrieb Simon Quigley: > Would we be able to customize this in a way that's fit for desktop > users > rather than server users? A fork might need to happen there. i would assume if we have an HTML installer the code design could be set up in a properly

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 05/09/2018 08:33 AM, Didier Roche wrote: > Some of us on the desktop team are volunteering for that task. > > I personnally remember when I received those 2 separate live and > install CD from Ubuntu 4.10. I was already praising the number of > simplifications that Ubuntu added in the Debian

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-09 Thread Didier Roche
Le 05/05/2018 à 08:15, Mark Shuttleworth a écrit : Thanks Dimitri for this! I'd like to start a thread on Ubiquity NG, and this seems like the best place and time to start :) First, a trip down memory lane. MDZ and I were shooting the moon on a Saturday afternoon in my apartment in London when

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-08 Thread Simon Quigley
Hello Mark, On 05/05/2018 01:15 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > First, we have Curtin, which knows how to take a description of a > machine and do-the-right-thing; partitioning, installing, and cleaning > up. Curtin is neat and efficient, super-fast, and it's used by both MAAS > and the new

Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-08 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Thanks Dimitri for this! I'd like to start a thread on Ubiquity NG, and this seems like the best place and time to start :) First, a trip down memory lane. MDZ and I were shooting the moon on a Saturday afternoon in my apartment in London when the idea for Ubiquity formed. A live CD that would