Dell, Microsoft, Novell

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Did we (Ubuntu, Canonical) just join the Novell-Microsoft partnership indirectly? By accident? If Dell is going into that much-dreaded deal (according to this[1], it indeed is), and if Canonical is in partnership with Dell (through the sale of

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. I'd like to +1 _at least_ putting a warning to the release notes... It's a known and common-enough issue to warn people against it... --

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

try scanmodem on feisty?

Hi, A request to devels as well as anyone with free time monitoring the list :) Can someone who is testing feisty on a machine with a winmodem test whether the scanmodem tool is working there and report their experience at the *bug report*? Bug report at https://launchpad.net/bugs/42454 It's

forgotten ubuntu-calendar

Hi, May be because it seems unimportant, or maybe because the artwork team is not happy that their efforts have been thrown away (I do *not* know, I'm speculating), this package is getting requests fro revival but no one is doing anything. If nothing ubuntu-specific will be done about the

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

Anthony Yarusso wrote: Jan Claeys wrote: On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote: Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a password is better cause we should teach people about security measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simple thing

Timezone change in US

Hi, Please ignore if this was discussed before (though it seems not to be from the search results). I'm subscribed to Slackware security notices and they seem to have released an update to their system for the time zone changes in the US. I was wondering whether we received such an update

Re: Bug descriptions and titles.

Robert Collins wrote: Just a plea that we update bug descriptions and titles to be relevant - it saves folk having to dig through the entire thread to get an idea of whats wrong. For instance: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/orbit2/+bug/67361 is a high priority crasher, and something

Re: Kqemu is GPL

Hervé Fache wrote: May I suggest we add the kqemu module to our Feisty kernel? I know it's late, but it would be a great thing to have... Hervé. I didn't know about kqemu being GPL'd. And having that module already in would be so great! I wonder whether we should report this as a bug or as a

Re: BadVista action BBC looking for Linux advocates in debate

I got the attached email from the BadVista campaign but I think the following link might serve nicely to promote Linux: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm On the BBC web site in the technology section, the BBC is trying to find advocates for Windows, Mac OS and Linux to debate the

Rearranging the DebuggingFirefox wiki page for users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have been meaning to do this for a while now. The wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox is a nice place to provide as a source for firefox bug reporters to use while sending bug reports. I rearranged it so it is oriented towards bug reporters