Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-10 Thread Richard Kolb II
Honestly I never even looked to see what I have for a graphics card. This is my wife's old laptop, I bought her a Macbook and took her machine over. I've since added an SSD and maxed out the ram at 8 gigs. I'll poke around at it a bit, I'm sure there is more I can do, right now I have bigger fish

Re: 16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-10 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Peter Petrakis wrote: > Having said that, I run all Intel with UMA graphics and > can drive my 4K monitor with a 5 year old thinkpad. > ​I do like all-Intel and aim for that. NVIDIA is nice if you need it ... so there's no point in

Re: 16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-10 Thread Peter Petrakis
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: > On Sep 9, 2016 23:05, "Joshua Judson Rosen" > wrote: > > > > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > >

16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-09 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sep 9, 2016 23:05, "Joshua Judson Rosen" wrote: > > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > > me considering it's

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > me considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my > 14.x LTS machine. Does it perhaps

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-09 Thread Richard Kolb II
Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised me considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my 14.x LTS machine. I then tried Ubuntu Mate and I may just jump over to Centos. Maybe I

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-09 Thread Tom Buskey
I've been working with CentOS 6/7 based Openstack but have some Ubuntu. FWIW, I prefer the 16.x Ubuntu with SystemD to Upstart. I've found it easier to learn with CentOS man pages than Ubuntu. I end up using service and chkconfig to start/stop and enable/disable. I've found initctl for Upstart

Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

2016-09-08 Thread Shawn O'Shea
In 14.04, the default init system (PID 1) is upstart. Upstart manages what it calls jobs. It also know how to load "classic" sysvinit scripts for backward compatibility. I wasn't aware of this until googling today, but apparently in 14.04, systemd was available to run alongside upstart via the