Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone This is my first post here. It seems to me that me that if an administration job needs to get done there are pretty much two ways of going about it: With GUI assistance, i.e Synaptic or Through the Command line with possible manual editing of configuration files. Synaptic and

Re: [Consortium] Benefit of Compiz to audio work?

2007-11-14 Thread Steve Harris
On 14 Nov 2007, at 10:38, Daniel James wrote: Hi Cory, Some have said that moving the drawing of windows off the the GFX card would help the load on the CPU and thus keep xruns to a minimum. I'm sceptical about that, because drawing windows shouldn't be causing xruns if the system is

Re: [Consortium] Benefit of Compiz to audio work?

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Cory, Some have said that moving the drawing of windows off the the GFX card would help the load on the CPU and thus keep xruns to a minimum. I'm sceptical about that, because drawing windows shouldn't be causing xruns if the system is set up properly. I believe JACK Meterbridge uses

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-14 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Michael Maurizi: How about including changes to the version string and so on the next time theres a security update for GIMP? Yes; when an Ubuntu package has fixes from upstream applied, that they've released in a new version with a bumped version number, the version number in Ubuntu should

apt-cacher in main

2007-11-14 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, I'd like to propose moving apt-cacher to main. I haven't done main inclusion reports before so bear with me while I dive into this :) Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source files Apt-cacher performs caching of

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Eoin Rogers
On 14/11/2007, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my suggestion is a halfway point between the hand-holding of the GUI and the sometimes confusing world of the CLI. IMO, beginners like the hand-holding. It's vital for Ubuntu not to get confusing for the end-user. Getting them to run shell

apt-cacher in main

2007-11-14 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 (not sure if this made it so re-sending) Hi, I'd like to propose moving apt-cacher to main. I haven't done main inclusion reports before so bear with me while I dive into this :) Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source

Reappearing mouse issues in ogengl applications

2007-11-14 Thread Tim Kersten
Hello, There is a bug that has come back. It was originally reported on 2006-09-18. I don't think anybody has figured out what was actually causing the problem but it was fixed during feisty. Unfortunately it is now back. The bug causes the mouse pointer to periodically jump to different

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Patrick
Hi Eoin and list I agree that shell scripts are not for beginners. Really I think Ubuntu is already really good for the beginners, although a different bred of OS , I don't see what is more difficult then let's say windoze. However for a beginner administrator, let's say someone who is trying

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-11-14 Thread Bryan Haskins
Our miro packages need some major work. In the form of: - New Upstream, 1.0 - Some compilation reconsiderations I'm not specifically sure of the cause, but the repo version has some major issues, perhaps it was due to the lib boost incompatibilities of the last version, well now the code works

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Onno Benschop
On 15/11/07 02:51, Patrick wrote: Hi Eoin and list I agree that shell scripts are not for beginners. Really I think Ubuntu is already really good for the beginners, although a different bred of OS , I don't see what is more difficult then let's say windoze. However for a beginner

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-11-14 Thread Anthony Bryan
On Nov 14, 2007 4:19 AM, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're at the formative stages of Hardy I thought I'd start a thread about apps which might be good for inclusion in the default Ubuntu setup. I'd like to suggest aria2, a CLI download utility with resuming and segmented

Re: apt-cacher in main

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Abbey
Kevin Fries wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:38 -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: I also think this would be a good candidate to have on the LiveCD installer and/or the Server CD installer images, as in many scenarios CDs are used for a first install and then other PCs in the same LAN could use

Re: IT8212 ATA RAID Controller device driver?

2007-11-14 Thread Tony Koker
Don't have time to read through it all right now, but looks to be right on. On 7.10 I installed dmraid and it says no RAID disks, but I may need to reboot and don't really have the time right this second to play further. Wasn't planning on booting from these disks, anyway, but just using them as

What do I do with disturbing bug reports in Wine about system crashes?

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
Fairly often, I'll get a bug report filed against Wine about something that Wine shouldn't be able to cause - total keyboard deadlocks, frozen screen, being unable to even ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-f1, etc. These are clearly not Wine bugs, but it's unclear to me where I should refile them.

Re: What do I do with disturbing bug reports in Wine about system crashes?

2007-11-14 Thread Bryan Haskins
Just a thought, but maybe just categorize them on the wine tracker (those from the wine tracker obviously) with something such as 'Outside Bug' generically, or more specifically, if you can determine it 'Video Driver bug', 'X bug' and so on. On Launchpad anything like that should presumably be

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Patrick
I see where you are going with this and I will make a bug report if I encounter this sort of trouble again. I hope I am not beating this to death now but I need to continue. Being a dumbass I have another perspective to offer. Early on I encountered these post installation questions but I did

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Onno Benschop
On 15/11/07 09:07, Patrick wrote: Hi Onno and List I am not sure I have made my intentions clear. First of all, Ubuntu's package management system is easier and less hazardous then a windoze-one-click-installer program, my helper script idea was just to focus on the configuration and if

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Onno Benschop
All of what you write exists: * A package that is not installed but run from the bash prompt is captured with a comment like The program 'foobar' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install foobar This functionality should be

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Patrick
Hi Onno and list I am beginning to feel like I am becoming a pain in the butt. I don't mean to be, I just want to help. I don't seem to be able to explain myself very well. I see what you are saying about mark by task and the dpkg-reconfigure command but this brings up two more trains of

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 11/15/07, Sarah Hobbs wrote: How much of all this tutorial stuff is already in the man pages? The manual pages contain vast amounts of detail, but I'm not sure they provide the overview for some of the more general questions. Further, I'm fairly certain that most complex tasks are not

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Sarah Hobbs
How much of all this tutorial stuff is already in the man pages? Hobbsee -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss