Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Onno Benschop
On 29/07/07 10:59, Tim Hull wrote: > My issue is basically that issues with hardware support pop up that > are fixed after release (for example, my aforementioned suspend issue). This issue looks simple enough "on the face of it", but as you will surely know, added support for a new piece of hardwa

Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Hull
> > > I run a current stable machine as my workstation, so at the moment it's > running Feisty. For me that's fine, I can update, compile, fix, etc. but > I would never expect my users to do that. In terms of time spent > maintaining it, I've upgraded from Dapper to Edgy, then from Edgy to > Feisty

Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Onno Benschop
On 29/07/07 07:28, Tim Hull wrote: > I thought I'd bring up an issue that I see with Ubuntu - and most > Linux distributions as a whole. > Anyway, the issue is that once a release is declared "stable", there > are no more updates beyond security updates available - at least > without resorting to u

Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Hull
> > > For LTS releases I agree this is a problem. I also think Ubuntu is > addressing > it in a sane way. Most of the changes included in the upcoming 6.06.2 are > related to supporting newer hardware. My launchpad-foo isn't up to > providing > a link, but you can find a link of bugs that are ta

Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday 28 July 2007 19:28, Tim Hull wrote: > I thought I'd bring up an issue that I see with Ubuntu - and most Linux > distributions as a whole.Anyway, the issue is that once a release is > declared "stable", there are no more updates beyond security updates > available - at least without reso

Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Hull
I thought I'd bring up an issue that I see with Ubuntu - and most Linux distributions as a whole.Anyway, the issue is that once a release is declared "stable", there are no more updates beyond security updates available - at least without resorting to ugly tarballs or random unofficial package repo

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-28 Thread Bryan Haskins
Yea, server isn't just a subset of desktop, as it installs minimal and a LAMP setup, so it would significantly bump up the size. We're pushing close to 700mb now. Plus most users would have no use in this. It would only be convenient enough for the people who could handle a server and downloadi

Re: Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-28 Thread Soren Hansen
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:33:38PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > I'm curious why there are 2 CDs, one for Server and one for Desktop. > Is it not possible to have a check box at installation time that says: > * I would like to install an Ubuntu Desktop [ ] > * I would like to install an Ubun

Single CD for Server & Desktop?

2007-07-28 Thread Christofer C. Bell
I'm curious why there are 2 CDs, one for Server and one for Desktop. Is it not possible to have a check box at installation time that says: * I would like to install an Ubuntu Desktop [ ] * I would like to install an Ubuntu Server [ ] Just idly curious. ;-) -- Chris "To announce that there mus

Re: State of cleanup-audio-jumble

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Hi, On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:18 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > I thought PulseAudio had gained libflashsupport already - > http://pulseaudio.vdbonline.net/libflashsupport/ ? No. Notice that libflashsupport is not in Ubuntu. Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag