On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Conrad Knauer <ath...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > If the user is connected to the internet, might it be possible to > guess their physical location (e.g. for time zone) by IP address? > (http://www.tracemyip.org/ seems to be able to :) as most people will > want to install their systems where they are going to use them.
Even better is if we could determine the correct mirror. E.g. I use iinet, and traffic to the ftp.iinet.net.au mirror is free, so I always set the mirror to iinet so I don't have hundreds of megabytes taken from my quota. In general, it would be best if Ubuntu automatically picked a mirror in the users freezone (if one exists). (1) We could use the IP address to detect if we are inside the iinet freezone. There are a lot of IP ranges owned by iinet (as they have quite a number of these, see e.g.: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/704521.html, which mentions the possibility of using a BGP feed to keep up to date). (2) We could use traceroute. E.g. I get 2 nexthop.wa.iinet.net.au (203.59.14.16) 18.911 ms 24.903 ms 25.088 ms So if nexthop.*.iinet.net.au appears in the traceroute this may indicate the we should use the iinet mirror (3) Ping is *not* useful in the case. The ping to the Australian ubuntu mirror is a fifth of the ping to the iinet mirror, but this is a small "price" to pay for being in the iinet freezone. 64 bytes from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (202.158.214.106): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=86.7 ms PING ftp.iinet.net.ua (195.39.196.131) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from hold.iname.ua (195.39.196.131): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=473 ms > For the partitioning step, if there is another OS present, the default > option should be to install along side it; if none, use the whole > disk. Partitioning is always a scary step, so that should be > generally hidden. The one thing I find more scary than partitioning is the idea of partitioning happening without warning. I guess they will get warning when they reach the "review and install" button. > A look at the pics on > http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/10/02/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-beta-reviewed-screenshots/ > suggests: > > Step 5 (user name, password, computer name) should be the first step > and really the only things that a user should need to fill in... > unless there's already an OS on the system that Ubuntu can extract a > u/n from :) There are also algorithms for extracting the password from XP as well... ... > The bottom of the page should then have a [Review and Install] button > leading to what is now Step 6 which will spell out the changes and > then an [Install] button at the bottom of that. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted -- 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
