Re: possible to include sampling_down_factor in Ubuntu?

2013-11-20 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Robie Basak robie.ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:21:49PM -0500, Daniel Hollocher wrote: So again, how could this be fixed in Ubuntu? If there are hardware specific optimal values for sampling_down_factor, how would that get included

possible to include sampling_down_factor in Ubuntu?

2013-11-18 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hi all, sampling_down_factor is a tunable for the ondemand frequency governor. Intuitively, higher values of sampling_down_factor make ondemand act more like performance. For those computers where ondemand has a performance penalty compared to performance, this is good, with the obvious downside

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

2013-11-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ? https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules this is the list of packages it will never update, instead of just integrating changes properly with the packagaes in the ubuntu archive

Re: 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1 Released!

2013-09-06 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Similar to raring cycle, ubuntu desktop server core are not participating / pushing out Beta 1 image. To see which flavour participated see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Beta1 ... Please see the details on the release schedule:

Re: disappointing to see Ubuntu not recommended cause of data leaks/sharing

2013-07-17 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.comwrote: It is no surprise now that Canonical is proposing replacing Firefox with Chromium which is also not considered a privacy focused browser by PRISM Break while Firefox is. The only reason I could find on the prism

Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

2013-06-22 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hi Matthew, This is poor design. Of all the time you spend with an app, the moment you're about to install it is the moment when you know the least about it. So it's the moment when you're least able to make informed decisions about granting those privileges. ... On Ubuntu, an app will

Re: Is this so hard to fix? Or important?

2013-06-09 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: Furthermore, as already stated, this is a bug in eog (or perhaps gdk-pixbuf), if it can't open an image file where the

Re: Support f2fs

2013-05-27 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Here is a relevant bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1157700 On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Anca Emanuel anca.eman...@gmail.comwrote: Any reason to delay gparted 0.16.1 ? or libblkid 2.23 ?

Re: Adobe Flash Broken For Obvious Case?

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.comwrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Ma Xiaojun damage3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, ( I know this can be made into a bug report. ) On 13.04 64bit with Adobe Flash installed. Go to youtube.com, play any video,

Re: Specialized kernel/base system for VM's/VE's

2012-09-25 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Emmet Hikory per...@ubuntu.com wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: is anyone currently working on optimized/minimized kernel and base packages for VM's ? My goal is having a really minimized base system for VMs and VEs, which don't have anything that's really needed

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Jordan, aacually what you describe is not a fork. In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it,

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-chromium-stable-and-development.html Cool. So that will allow users who would like to use chromium-browser. It still looks like no one should be using chromium 18 since there have

chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Hollocher
why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the current dev]) Something should change. Version 18 is in the archives and the various ppas. As far as I can tell, 18 should not be made available to users since it is

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-08 Thread Daniel Hollocher
If this conversation is to be had, can we take it in a direction that isn't a flame war? On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/08/08 11:25 (GMT-0400) Phillip Susi composed: On 8/8/2012 11:01 AM, John Moser wrote: Put your mouse pointer in the

trouble with python-minimal upgrade

2012-04-20 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hey folks, Sorry to ask for support on this list, but I just tried to upgrade to oneiric, and my computer is in a sorry state. python-minimal has a dependency loop problem, and dpkg is complaining more loudly than I'm used to. Basically, all the various upgrade commands I have tried result in

Re: trouble with python-minimal upgrade

2012-04-20 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Did you use 'do-release-upgrade' to go to oneiric, or just change sources.lists and dist-upgrade? I've had problems with dist-upgrades in the past, but things have always gone smoothly with do-release-upgrade. update-manager -d is where I started. Once it error'd out, I believe my

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-10 Thread Daniel Hollocher
ubuntu-restricted-extras Most of the stuff in ubuntu-restricted-extras is either not restricted or in partner now. Perhaps this should be broken out into ubuntu-extras and ubuntu-restricted-extras? Micah Another issue is that it looks like it is pulling in the FOSS version of java,

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
That is a common misconception. Reinstalling Ubuntu on the same partition doesn't lose the user's data either. A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. Is this really a misconception?  I thought

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-11-04 Thread Daniel Hollocher
That is a common misconception. Reinstalling Ubuntu on the same partition doesn't lose the user's data either. A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why so many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. Is this really a misconception? I thought

Re: Maverick Alpha3 +nvidia-96 +updates

2010-10-19 Thread Daniel Hollocher
FWIW, I heard the problem is that the installers/upgraders will happily install these broken drivers, leaving your computer unable to fully boot. If the drivers just refused to install, there would be less of an issue. I'm lucky enough to have a card that uses the -current driver, but I saw a

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Thanks folks, It does sound like it is just a hardware specific bug. I will take this upstream. Dan On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: Yeah, I saw that.  I think that is also on wikipedia.  So maybe ondemand

ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hey folks, Anyone know about the difference between the ondemand vs conservative frequency governors? I'm on a core2duo dual core intel type chip, and I am getting much better performance with conservative selected. I first heard about the conservative governor in the context of getting better

Re: ondemand vs conservative

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Yeah, I saw that. I think that is also on wikipedia. So maybe ondemand is for battery usage. It would still be nice to have conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop. I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer. Dan On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM,

Re: Firestarter

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jim Kielman jim_kiel...@shaw.ca wrote: There is a tool for setting firewall rules installed by default called ufw, for those that need a graphical tool to set firewall rules, it's just as easy to install gufw, as it is to install firestarter. The biggest

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-13 Thread Daniel Hollocher
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Darren Albers dalb...@gmail.com wrote: For what it is worth add me to the list of people happy with PulseAudio.   In my opinion we are better off fixing the remaining issues than ripping it out and replacing it with something else. And on that note, I have

Re: Ubuntu needs a new development model

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
I'm pretty sure that getdeb.net and the ppa's on launchpad satisfy most cravings for rolling releases. -- 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: lucid and 2.6.33?

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hey Patrick, I'm only suggesting this because I know about it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds and http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ At least you may avoid having to compile the kernel yourself. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Just in case you haven't seen some of the previous conversation on this topic, Mark Shuttleworth has talked about rolling releases verse time based releases here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/tag/cadence He makes some compelling arguments for time based releases. There should be a

Re: Install Wizard 'Looks Too Complicated'

2009-12-01 Thread Daniel Hollocher
I think the issue is that you need to have the user enter the password anyway, for the users sake. The user needs to know and remember the password, which is why the installer asks twice already. The original idea was to use the windows password so the user doesn't need to be asked during

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Hollocher
I have a different but related question: why is a wine package included in the Ubuntu repositories at all? Its 5 months old, and the winehq website not only has a package built specifically for ubuntu gutsy/whatever, but they have their own repository that will allow your install of wine to be

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Though it is my personal judgment that the two who have responded so far don't truely know the answer to my question, for the sake of argument, I will refute what has thus been presented. From Jan: Not every user will be able to find those 3rd-party repositories. Well, most people coming from

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hey, good response. It looks like this problem will be fixed in the future, and I see the irony of to whom I originally responded to. Dan On Feb 13, 2008 8:05 PM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/02/08 09:32, Daniel Hollocher wrote: Again, wine in ubuntu is unsupported

Re: metashell - User Friendly Shell

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hello all, I had an idea for metashell this morning, that takes into account some of the dialog on this list. So, to restate, right now, metashell offers users the value of MIME-types and application associations, whatever, via the same interface that see or open uses. You just feed in the file

Request for inclusion into Ubuntu

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hello mailing list, I had an idea for ubuntu that I thought would be cool. I managed to start coding the idea on my own, and have posted the code here: https://launchpad.net/climl My question is this: How do I actually incorporate my work into ubuntu? Its one python script that starts a

Re: metashell - User Friendly Shell

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Hello all, I had an idea for metashell this morning, that takes into account some of the dialog on this list. So, to restate, right now, metashell offers users the value of MIME-types and application associations, whatever, via the same interface that see or open uses. You just feed in the file

Re: Request for inclusion into Ubuntu

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Hollocher
yes! thankyou, thats perfect On Jan 22, 2008 11:18 AM, Daniel Holbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 09:16 -0500 schrieb Daniel Hollocher: My question is this: How do I actually incorporate my work into ubuntu? Check out http://wiki.ubuntu.com