Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2008-11-03 kello 08:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic kirjoitti: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote: > > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due > > to trademark related names. > > Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means. > Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is com

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-02 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote: > > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due > > to trademark related names. > > Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means. > Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is comput

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote: > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due > to trademark related names. Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means. Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is computing jargon" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft I was so used to the

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2008-11-03 kello 11:31 +0530, shirish kirjoitti: > Hi all, > I know you guys introduced a package/tool by the name of > system-cleaner-gtk and then had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due > to trademark related names. In the Jaunty cycle it would be nice if > you (whoever the maintainer is)

rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-02 Thread shirish
Hi all, I know you guys introduced a package/tool by the name of system-cleaner-gtk and then had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due to trademark related names. In the Jaunty cycle it would be nice if you (whoever the maintainer is) rename the package to also cruft-remover-gtk so confusion is no

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-11-02 Thread shirish
Mackenzie, Thank you for looking into that. Also nvidia-kernel is now gone (although don't remember if I removed it or one of the updates) but what's gone is good. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http:/

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-11-02 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 17:09 +0530, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > I still have a query, > > Macofi asked how the OS should know the computer case? Looking at lshw, I noticed that it can tell what type of computer it is, so maybe something could be done about this... -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubun

Re: Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report

2008-11-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/2 Nicolas Deschildre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello there! > > I wrote a small document about Ubuntu Brainstorm trying to summarize > what's going on there (with a few stats), what you can expect from it, > a summary of the most wanted features from its users, and its impact. > I wrote this h

Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report

2008-11-02 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
Hello there! I wrote a small document about Ubuntu Brainstorm trying to summarize what's going on there (with a few stats), what you can expect from it, a summary of the most wanted features from its users, and its impact. I wrote this hoping to give to contributors and developers (not limited to

Re: dramatic usability improvements to Ubuntu based software appliances

2008-11-02 Thread Liraz Siri
Woops, that was supposed to go to ubuntu-news-team not ubuntu-devel-discuss! Liraz Siri wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am one of the developers behind TurnKey Linux, an opensource project > that is developing a family of Ubuntu-based installable Live CDs which > are pre-integrated for specific usage s

dramatic usability improvements to Ubuntu based software appliances

2008-11-02 Thread Liraz Siri
Hi guys, I am one of the developers behind TurnKey Linux, an opensource project that is developing a family of Ubuntu-based installable Live CDs which are pre-integrated for specific usage scenarios while optimizing for ease of use. The Ubuntu Weekly News team covered our project a month and a

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-11-02 Thread shirish
Reply in-line :- On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 13:55, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shirish [2008-10-27 16:55 +0530]: >> a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless) > > This is gone for good in 8.10, thanks to the reorganization of > linux-restricted-modules. The nvidia/fglrx drivers are ent

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-11-02 Thread shirish
Hi all, I still have a query, Macofi asked how the OS should know the computer case? AFAIK most if not all the processors used in the laptop are different. And nowadays they also have quite a few sensors which makes identifying them easier isn't it ? If one of the ways or using a combination o