Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-30 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 30.09.2009 um 06:09 schrieb Randy Appleton: Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? Yes, this can happen. Regarding boot times ... I'm not sure why this is interesting. The best goal would be to make it unneccessary to boot/reboot a machine at all. My $0.02 Markus - - -

possible regression in last jaunty kernel upgrade

2009-09-30 Thread Felipe Figueiredo
Hello, when I did the kernel upgrade from 2.6.28-14-generic to 2.6.28-15-generic, the installation never completed, and I lost the ability to use aptitude and apt-get. I don't know against which package I should report a bug. Symptom of package installation failure is the new kernel not

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4

2009-09-30 Thread Randy Appleton
Does anyone really have 1000 icons on their desktop? Yes, this can happen. Wow. Regarding boot times ... I'm not sure why this is interesting. The best goal would be to make it unneccessary to boot/reboot a machine at all. I agree. However, in my life I'm constant switching between

Re: idea for 10.04

2009-09-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
On 25/09/09 16:52, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: isnt the internet connection required thought to sync time with an ntp server at somepoint during the installation. It tries to sync, but the installation doesn't stop if it can't find an internet connection. There's nothing in the installer that