[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 23

Mon Jul 12 12:07:06 BST 2010

RE: boot livecd to ram etc:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/25496
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/casper/+bug/25496>
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2630/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM

<http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2630/>I believe it's a feature in the new
kernel to copy casper and/or system in the live environment to ram but it
seems to take a lot of tweaks. I'm tempted to do it with my test box but i
dont have time right now.

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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:03:22 +0100
> From: "Dino T." <dino at dinot.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers (pete)
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> I'm interested, but what tweaks have you made? Just the main ones will do.
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:20 +0100
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On 6 July 2010 20:40, Nick Brandon <maillist at css-uk.net> wrote:
> > Over the past few weeks I've been adapting the live CD, trying out a
> number of different configurations. Ultimately I'd like it to be more
> useable "out of the box" for me as a UK user and genuinely I'm quite pleased
> with the results.
> >
> > I'm toying with the idea of making it available to the wider public to
> see if it would be useful for other new users of ubuntu. Before doing that
> however, I'd like a few people to try it out and report their feedback.
> >
> > Has anyone got a recommendation on where would be best to promote it so I
> could find, say 20 - 30 to make it reasonable, volunteers to try it out?
> >
> > That being said if anyone here would be interested in trying it out it
> please send me an email. It wouldn't take more than 30 - 60 mins and all you
> need is a laptop/desktop PC with a DVD drive and preferably 2GB of memory.
>
> Just a small note of caution...
>
> I suspect that quite a few of the things that really enhance the
> Ubuntu experience can't be implemented on a LiveCD or can't be
> implemented for legal reasons. E.g., proprietary hardware drivers,
> Flash, MP3, Quicktime, DVD support and so on.
>
> The other more general point is to understand that /your/ enhancements
> are not everybody's. I think Ubuntu's choice of components has been
> very carefully chosen to be nicely generic. The "utimate edition", for
> instance, contains a lot of what I would consider to be bloatware and
> crap.
> http://ultimateedition.info/
>
> The whole point of Ubuntu was that it contained one single
> best-of-breed example of each category of application: one office
> suite, one browser, one media player, etc. This is one of the reasons
> it's succeeded, in the face of many competing distros which offer 12
> desktops, 6 web browsers, 4 word processors, 86 calculators and so on.
>
> Adding back in the complexity that Ubuntu's designers carefully
> removed is /not/ improving the distro.
>
> Terrible kludgeware such as Automatix only recreated this problem.
>
> So be very very careful selecting what you think are essential
> additions and improvements. You might find many people would disagree
> with you and you will end up detracting from Ubuntu's essential
> simplicity, cleanness and elegance.
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:06:13 +0100
> From: Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2 motherboard
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:32 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> > Ahh in that case it isn't too bad depending on which Phenom X4 it is.
> > Then Phenom II X4 is a superior CPU to the Phenom X4 (I had a Phenom X4
> > and although it was a great CPU and a real step up from the Athlon 64 I
> > had before, it wasn't as great performance as the newer Athlon II and
> > Phenom II CPUs).
>
> Thanks for all your advice.  I finally made a decision not to make a
> decision yet!!  I'm going to see what is around in early October and get
> a new mobo bundle then.  I've got a fairly busy rest-of-Summer, so I'll
> go for something in the Autumn.  If anyone sees something looking really
> good at that time, please post!  Thanks again for all your notes of
> caution etc.
>
> Spent a frustrating couple of hours yesterday doing some work in Windows
> XP because I was already set up to deal with it.  Oh, how glad I was to
> get back to Ubuntu.  A friend of mine has just bought a Mac because he
> was getting really cheesed off with Windows.  He uses a Mac at work.  I
> told him about Ubuntu and I'm going round there soon to put it on his
> old Windows box.  That box is no slouch - it's around 1200 MHz with a
> huge hard drive and loads of ram, so I know he's going to be over the
> moon with Ubuntu.
>
> Barry Drake.
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> Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment
> that gives me real fresh air.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:32:25 +0100
> From: Alan Bell <alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I am quite interested in the running from memory concept, I guess you
> are somehow copying the entire CD to a ramdisk or something and mounting
> that over the filesystem, thereby trading a bit of loading time for it
> running like a greased whippet when fully loaded. This sounds to me like
> it might be a worthy performance compromise and give a rather good
> impression to the new user. I would rather stick to the standard
> packages and configuration though (maybe dropping something if more room
> is needed for the in-memory CD thing) if you have improvements to the
> base configuration then the best thing to do is to work on getting them
> into the main CD, there are sessions at UDS where everyone can
> participate on deciding what goes in.
>
> Alan.
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