Question

2008-10-27 Thread Marc DG
Hello! i have a my Alienware M15x i want install Ubuntu 8.10 ( because i am tire for Vista: virus :/ ) problem: it is possible? is compatible? work well with sound to? Hibernate ? i see in forum: Re: Alienware m15x anyone ?

Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-27 Thread vidd
As was done in Debian, Ubuntu has elected to modify the default handling of recommended packages. In Hardy (8.04) apt-config dump shows the default setting APT::Install-Recommends 0; This has the result of apt-get listing recommended items, but not installing these items by default. In

Re: Surprises ...

2008-10-27 Thread Hervé Fache
I find this one (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286858) quite problematic for Kubuntu: Gwenview destroys EXIF info from JPEGs... Hervé 2008/10/23 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... we'd rather not have any. Release preparation is a painstaking business! Please read this mail carefully.

Re: Question

2008-10-27 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
If you would read all thread in UF, you would saw this: http://www.crapules.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/alienware-m15x-and-ubuntu/ So it can be fixed easily for Hardy. And I think Ubuntu 8.10 will have this fixed already, as it will have newest ALSA fixes. Cheers, Just my two euro cents, Peter.

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread shirish
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:55, shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe) a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless) b. bluetooth (no support for bluetooth in the

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread Stefano Doni
Hi, I can confirm this. Check out this bug I opened regarding Intrepid, but unfortunately it seems that no one has looked at it yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285595 Problem exists since Hardy, Gutsy IO bandwidth performance was *double* (measured, not feels).

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread shirish
Hi Stefano, It seems I missed that. Mine is an IDE hdd, is yours the same or a SATA disk. Please mention what kind of hdd it is on the bug which you have put up. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread shirish
Reply in-line :- On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 22:43, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe) a. nvidia-kernel (no

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 23:00 +0530, shirish wrote: Reply in-line :- On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 22:43, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles other than

Re: ConsoleKit (0.2.10) / PolicyKit / Security hole

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Pitt
hi Justin, Justin Brisson [2008-10-26 21:40 -0400]: Could you please give a brief discription of what exactly this is? Could you please give a brief description of what exactly you are asking? :-) ConsoleKit homepage and docs: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit PolicyKit

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread shirish
Hi all, From what I understand many or most of the chips used in the laptop are different from normal desktops. I'm sure a combination of two-three chips and things could make the OS know its a lappy not a desktop or vice-versa . Isn't that possible? After two or three boots when it has an idea

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:06 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, From what I understand many or most of the chips used in the laptop are different from normal desktops. I'm sure a combination of two-three chips and things could make the OS know its a lappy not a desktop or vice-versa . Isn't that

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-27 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 24.10.2008 um 16:07 schrieb vidd: In Intrepid (8.10), this behavior has changed. Now recommends are being treated as depends. For the majority of users, this is tolerable. However, for some users, particularly net-device users, low-spec servers, and minimalists, this is a heavy

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe)

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 27.10.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:22 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.10.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-27 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Because I suck, here's the mail I accidentally privately sent. On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: ... snip ... Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it would be an advantage to

Re: ENCFS Hardy-ibex migration

2008-10-27 Thread Brian Murray
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:37:10AM +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: Olá Mackenzie e a todos. On Saturday 25 October 2008 18:07:03 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:41 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: I know we are really close to release, but either we fix bug 234818