MSI nvidia fx5500 on 14.04

2015-04-20 Thread Krzysztof
I'm trying to install nvidia-173 driver for my graphic card and it fails. Even I manage to install before desktop installation the desktop appears as a complete mess. After desktop setup the driver cannot be installed. Could I get some help here? -- Regards Krzysztof J. -- Ubuntu-

Re: Lshw/lspci - consolidate list of hardware.

2012-02-12 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/2012 08:28 PM, HSO wrote: > You can consider - make lswh or lspci - or similar app to make a > list of hardware - and with this list start a requ. modlues > kernel. > If by that you mean generating initrd image with only required modules the

Re: Developers, developers, developers...

2010-11-13 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
ons. Quickly is nice but it doesn't really change much if there is no documentation to speak of for the platform. Code samples are going to take you only so far [1] [1] sure, you can learn everything about platform just by reading code but no one who makes living from writing applications is go

Re: FFe: migrate to ibus-1.3 series

2010-09-02 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:52 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > > I think this topic worth a discussion, serious memory leak is found in > an important CJK support part that included to LTS CD images but is hard > to get it fixed. Is the memory leak really that serious? Bug report mentions "130MB over few d

Re: Ubuntu w/ ksplice

2010-09-01 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 22:28 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > As reported by slashdot [1] fedora now has ksplice by default. > > What about ubuntu? (...) Well, in the article linked from slashdot you can actually read: "Fedora joins Ubuntu Desktop as a supported desktop distribution for the

Re: XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Geiger wrote: > Hi, Hey Sebastian, (...) > I just wanted to bring this up, if there has already been a discussion > about this, maybe someone can point me to it or let me know about the > current status about this issue. This topic shows up from time

Re: XDG Config Folders

2010-08-31 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:34 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > A common mistake which is repeated a few times in the links you provided > is the part about XDG_DATA_HOME being the location for user files. What > the specification means by 'user specific data files' is not your > emails, photographs or

Re: Firestarter (Chris Jones)

2010-08-31 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 07:59 -0700, George Farris wrote: > > Gufw is in no way suitable for a new user. They have no idea what > iptables are or rules for that matter. > > George What is the actual use case for a simple and graphical firewall? Why do people who have no idea what iptables or rule

Re: Firestarter (Chris Jones)

2010-08-29 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 11:42 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote: > I think perhaps we have different views on what constitutes > "maintenance". As libraries that Firestarter depends on progress, > someone will need to maintain the package to make sure that it > installs correctly and works correctly. That's

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
dependently from Ubuntu? The problem is, as I see it, that we don't have enough developers to prepare, test and supported such invasive changes that would be appreciate only by handful of people. -- Krzysztof Klimonda -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubu

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
o that and at the same point discuss an elusive Commercial Ubuntu Store? I don't see how could we approach ISVs to include their software in our store and at the same time preaching our users about how bad it is for them. -- Krzysztof Klimonda -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-de

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
The market may as well be here but I believe that the same diversity that some see as the strength of the Linux makes creating indie applications for Linux risky and difficult. [1] I wouldn't mind paying 20 bucks for an application but it would have to be perfectly integrated with my system - up

Re: Django version 1.1 released and Minor Release Exception for Django

2009-07-29 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:57 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote: > There is a 1.1rc1 in Debian experimental for some time. I'm going to > send email today to maintainer to ask how to help him if needed. > Before an update can be done we must make sure that all packaged django > modul

Re: Django version 1.1 released and Minor Release Exception for Django

2009-07-29 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
as good Django stack in Ubuntu as possible. Best Regards, Krzysztof Klimonda -- 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

Re: Full boot in 45s, 3 possible improvements (for Jaunty Jackalope 9.04?)

2008-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
?l=ext3-users&m=116231468911590&w=2 -- Krzysztof Lichota -- 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

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/9/14 Tristan Wibberley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:51 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> As an author of Prefetch, I cannot agree that it would not fix seeks ;) >> Part of my implementation, not enabled by default as it is highly >> experimental,

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/9/12 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:35 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Thanks. There are some rough edges in patches themselves which should >> be straightened out. And the feedback on using prefetch was pretty >> much no

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-15 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/9/12 Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi, > On Fr, 2008-09-12 at 09:23 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> You have 25-35 seconds from GRUB till desktop appearing (using autologin)? > > i have managed 22 already with a not to drastic set of modifications (19 &

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/9/12 Timo Jyrinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/11 Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> As an author of Prefetch, I cannot agree that it would not fix seeks ;) >> Part of my implementation, not enabled by default as it is highly >> experimental, is ext3

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
much to fight time wasted on disk seeks. -- Krzysztof Lichota -- 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

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/9/11 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:57 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> That's what have been done by Microsoft for XP - they had the goal to >> bring boot time to 30s and managed to do it. Apparently they forgot to >> do

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-11 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
he goal to bring boot time to 30s and managed to do it. Apparently they forgot to do the same for Vista ;) I volunteer to take active part in this team and make prefetch ready. But it would need broad support from Ubuntu developers and users (testing and providing feedback). -- Krzysztof

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-11 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ix seeks ;) Part of my implementation, not enabled by default as it is highly experimental, is ext3 defragmenter which puts all files for prefetch in one place on disk, so the requests to read them can be merged into big streaming reads. -- Krzysztof Lichota -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: readahead slow down

2008-08-28 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
s and boot > dmesg so common problems like this could be traced by a ubuntu-core-dev > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262311 This bug is not accessible - permission denied. Is this some security issue? Can you sum up the results and post bootcharts somewhere else? I am interested in th

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-22 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
acktraces, so I assumed they are needed for something... -- Krzysztof Lichota -- 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

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-21 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
solution would be to create debugging symbols server. Microsoft had these for years. The information about debugging symbols is only needed on server, client only sends (in simplest version) MD5 sum of library and address offset, which is transformed into the symbol by symbol server. --

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/10 Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:15 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> The main point is that it is possible >> (and easy) to install Firefox 3 on Windows XP (released 2001), while >> try to install Firefox 3 on Dapper (released 200

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/10 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Well, IMO in most cases this would require just creation of >> appropriate packaging process and appropriate build tools. Build >> systems already supp

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-10 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/9 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is a lot of effort, but if we want to compete with Windows, which >> makes it possible (and easy), it should be done. > > Er, not re

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-10 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/9 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> It is a lot of effort, but if we want to compete with Windows, which >> makes it possible (and easy), it should be done. > > As far as I'm awa

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-09 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/8 Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:38:01 +0200 "Krzysztof Lichota" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >>Additionally, ship _newer_ versions of important apps to LTS releases, >>so that continuity is kept. If LTSx releas

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-09 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/7/8 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:38:01AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> I can't agree here. IMO bugs which people already know, they got used >> to and found workarounds for, are less damaging for system reputation >>

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-08 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
sition smoothly by using version 2.3 (assuming it works for them). Just my 2c :) -- Krzysztof Lichota -- 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

Re: Customized CD

2008-06-09 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
> can only depend on CD. Why don't you just use UCK (http://uck.sourceforge.net) and create your own customized CD which will have everything needed already installed? -- Krzysztof Lichota -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-23 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/5/22 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:07 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> The kernel module writes it. For boot prefetching, userspace script >> processes the lists as they are merged and sorted for last 3 runs. >> > I noticed

Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008-05-16 Thread Krzysztof Klimonda
eople use this system among other things because of how does all applications look alike. Also saying that that most people doesn't care about HIG and It only matters for developers and fan boys isn't fair. It means that what developers does has no real value.. > > F > Best Reg

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-13 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/5/13 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:12 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > > > Sorry about that. It just got lost in my mailbox. > > And about lack of feedback, I meant feedback from users. The kernel > > has been downloaded

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-13 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
SO image is not visible when squashFS image is mounted. -- Krzysztof Lichota -- 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

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
prefetch? Readahead should not be used together with prefetch as it uses its own prefetch lists. It could read unnecessary data and spoil performance. Preload has some heuristics to predict which programs will be run, so this could be useful. But I don't know how it will behave (in terms of

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

2007-12-18 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Thilo Six napisał(a): > Krzysztof Lichota wrote the following on 17.12.2007 13:05 > > recently i also tried 7z for my backups and in comparation to bz2 it seems to > take a bit longer during compressing but is faster on extraction. > Also the compressed file with 7z is ~30% compar

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

2007-12-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
spec/low-priority-io-for-background-tasks), running them with nice is also recommended as CPU can be starved, for example when playing video. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discu

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

2007-12-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
e case now. If these 2 issues are addressed, I think it in general a good idea :) My 2c. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Access denied (403) when trying to fetch security updates for Dapper

2007-11-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
h usual "dpkg --configure -a", "apt-get install -f", but it didn't work, as the problem lies in completely different place. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Access denied (403) when trying to fetch security updates for Dapper

2007-11-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Ming Hua napisał(a): > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:45:04AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Scott Kitterman napisał(a): >>> Generally I enable backports, install what I want, and the disable it >>> again. >>> That I think most people can do. >> Ma

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-17 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
es do not require manual intervention. 2. Pure .deb packages are not signed (as far as I understand APT system). Only repos are. So the security problem stays the same. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-16 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ates. Maybe if there was a graphical inteface to do what you described it would do, but currently it is rather a hack around the problem. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-16 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
newest versions of a lot of packages. For example, if user wants to upgrade amarok but not kopete, he can do it using GetDeb, but he cannot do it using backports (forget package pinning/repository priorities, it is in no way intuitive and cannot be done by "average users"). Just my 2c.

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ciate the intended contribution though, and I am glad that it > solves the problem for your derivative. Great :) I didn't know Wubi is so advanced :) If Wubi has the option to boot from CD, then it makes my installer obsolete. Thanks for info. Maybe some other people find it useful though :)

CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
r, without digging into BIOS :) Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Broken Packages & Dependencies

2007-08-20 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a): > When I cannot install new package, because package manager complains to > run "apt-get -f install", then it should not be a usual situation. > > And it is the first time when this is so serious - tens of packages seem > broken. Sorry, I h

Re: Broken Packages & Dependencies

2007-08-20 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
chitectures, and other normal processes. When I cannot install new package, because package manager complains to run "apt-get -f install", then it should not be a usual situation. And it is the first time when this is so serious - tens of packages seem broken. Krzysztof Lich

Re: Announcement: Kernel with automatic boot tracing and prefetching available for testing (GSoC 2007)

2007-08-14 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Phillip Susi napisał(a): > Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> How it works? >> - During boot file accesses are recorded. >> - During subsequent boots this trace is used to prefetch files before >> they are used in order to speed up boot. > > How is the data prefetched?

Re: Announcement: Kernel with automatic boot tracing and prefetching available for testing (GSoC 2007)

2007-08-13 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
optimizations: prefetching during application start and reordering files on disk. Both are in the works and I will announce them when they are ready. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubun

Announcement: Kernel with automatic boot tracing and prefetching available for testing (GSoC 2007)

2007-08-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
.com/p/prefetch/wiki/BootTimeMeasurementInstruction Please report successes and possible problems to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no registration necessary). Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer - What I need as a third party APT repository maintainer

2007-08-11 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
staller can do this and even more: it can embed installation information for other systems than Apt, and can provide user with nice "which parts to install" dialog, so that he can choose if he wants, for example, to install docs or plugins. More features for ease of use are planned,

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-08 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
because "Linux is too difficult". Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-08 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
n provide One Click Installer installation file which has only information which package to install and does not contain any repository information. This should cover the second case. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-08 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Matt Zimmerman napisał(a): > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:58:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a): >>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:57:42PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >>>> This is the approach of apt:// protocol. It is not extensible an

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-08 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Matt Zimmerman napisał(a): > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:57:42PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: >> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a): >>> This provides the experience of locating the software on the web while >>> retaining the security and maintenance characteristics of the dist

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
scription how to do it once again. This is the problem I am trying to solve. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Scott Kitterman napisał(a): > On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:57, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > >> This is the approach of apt:// protocol. It is not extensible and it >> will not make Ubuntu competitive to rich software ecosystem of Windows. >> There _must_ be the way for third

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Greg K Nicholson napisał(a): > Krzysztof Lichota: >> Creator of One Click Installer installation file decides which >> repository will be used. If the application is available in Ubuntu >> repository I do not see the point why he would prefer to point to some >> other

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
tem. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
r security, you can turn off installing unsigned files in One Click Installer. This way inexperienced users will not be able to install untrusted software easily. But of course advanced users will be able to work around it. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ional Name: Value pair > format used by both dpkg and apt itself. Not whole worlds is using apt. XML is more flexible when it comes to supporting unexpected things. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-dev

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
r strives to be the solution for all Linux (and non-Linux) distributions. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
course I would really like to see central Ubuntu software repository with trusted, signed installation files, extensive descriptions, ranks, comments, etc. But it should not be the only place. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
are many ways to improve it :) Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
.deb files themselves. Then they could be polished to provide better user experience (provide optional documentation installation, language packs, etc.). Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-07 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Greg K Nicholson napisał(a): > Krzysztof Lichota: >> And I do not think such amount of information should be put in URLs, it >> is just too big. URLs should not hold data. > > I imagine that the major Linux vendors would each host a library server, > SourceForge might hav

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
difference between understanding how to get along with Linux, and not. I couldn't agree more. Thank you for your balanced and insightful post :) Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Greg K Nicholson napisał(a): > Conrad Knauer: >> On 8/6/07, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Package installation applications (Synaptic, Adept) and apt repositories >>> do not solve the problem for the following reasons: >>> 1. Repositori

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ystem we have to provide third party application developers, packagers and users opportunity to provide their own installation repositories, which suit their needs. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
r experience. >> Now compare it to installation on Windows - user goes to Google, types >> "movie player download" or browses some application catalog like Tucows, >> selects one with best reviews, downloads installer (in most cases he has >> to choose between installer for Windows 98/ME and installer for Windows >> 2000/XP), 3 clicks and he is done. > > How is this really different from installing a DEB with gdebi? It works only on Debian/Ubuntu, only for single deb packages which do not require additional dependencies. And no security fixes, as this is not repository. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Announcement: One Click Installer

2007-08-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
or my Ubuntu derived distro: Olá! OS (http://ola-os.com - in Polish) and is used to provide my users with online software catalog. I want to contribute it back to Ubuntu community as part of thanks for creating such great distro :) Comments welcome Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Des

Re: Accepted mdadm 2.6.2-1ubuntu1 (source)

2007-07-15 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ed. So I think the default would be to boot in degraded mode, even if only to send e-mail/pager/whatever to admin that the system runs in degraded mode. And this is what I have so far seen in other systems (e.g. Suse) and I am surprised it is different in Ubuntu. Krzysztof Lichota signa

Re: ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

2007-05-20 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ivalent of Windows XP prefetcher in time for Gutsy release. When it is implemented, we will look into other prefetching techniques, including ReadyBoost. Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@li

Re: script for machine internals discovery on Live CD

2007-04-13 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
s working on live CD, it should work on installed system. In particular, if graphics card is not working, how would you like to show the page to user? :) Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modif

Re: Looking for mentor for Google SoC idea - application start prefetching

2007-04-05 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Krzysztof Lichota napisał(a): > Matthias Klose napisał(a): >>> Full text of application: >>> http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~lichota/soc2007-prefetch/application.html >> Please could you write down the project idea in a wiki page at >> wiki.ubuntu.com? >> Use the S

Re: Looking for mentor for Google SoC idea - application start prefetching

2007-03-24 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
? Should I create spec in Launchpad? Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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

Looking for mentor for Google SoC idea - application start prefetching

2007-03-20 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
ll be done for ext3 as default file system in Ubuntu and most often used for desktops. Full text of application: http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~lichota/soc2007-prefetch/application.html Comments about idea are also welcome :) Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
; laptop) and a slightly busier processor. Once you have installed it, > reboot into the new lowlatency kernel. I don't think that mouse getting stuck for half second is normal for any kernel. It must be a bug. Low-latency kernel is for special purposes, not for getting normal system respons

Re: An Entirely Different Approach on LiveCD Installer.

2007-02-12 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
e to install using Ubiquity on a > machine with only 128MB RAM. How did you do it? I have tried it by spawning only Xserver+window manager+Ubiquity, but 128 MB was still not enough. Is your version available somewhere? Krzysztof Lichota signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signa

Providing information about packages in security advisories

2007-01-25 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
. Especially it applies for libraries. For example, what is "libsoup" for? Definitely not for making soup :) Krzysztof Lichota PS. I know I can look up description in packages.ubuntu.com or in Adept/Synaptic, but it is burdensome and not always possible (for example if reading e-mai

Re: Adding my humble ubuntu-based distro to "unsupported platform" dialog in gnome-system-tools.

2006-12-20 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
twork, a "unsupported platform" dialog appears, > however, I searched the gnome-system-tools source and couldn't find any > data on where it get the distribution names. I guess it gets it from /etc/lsb-release and you have changed it to not say "Ubuntu", but t