Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 00:32, Ivan Wright wrote: Im looking forward to 12.10, sadly like every other .04 release I've used 12.04 has been a flop. Golly. You're the first person I've heard say that. Pity because during development it was absolutely fine, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Bruno Girin
On 17/05/12 00:17, Gareth France wrote: On 17/05/12 00:05, Bruno Girin wrote: On 16/05/12 06:52, Neil Greenwood wrote: I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Indeed. That hard disk currently has an unused pre-installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Ivan Wright
Pity because during development it was absolutely fine, but post release its been crashing daily and I've had to fix quite a few little things that came out of the box working in 11.10. What's been crashing specifically? Can you detail what has needed 'fixing'? Installing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
On 18 May 2012 07:10, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 00:32, Ivan Wright wrote: Im looking forward to 12.10, sadly like every other .04 release I've used 12.04 has been a flop. Golly. You're the first person I've heard say

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 15:23, Liam Proven wrote: But I can never tell what the problem /is/. Some background service or something, I guess. Nothing visible and user-facing has ever died once. Even the alpha was pretty stable. You'll probably find something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
On 18 May 2012 15:44, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 15:23, Liam Proven wrote: But I can never tell what the problem /is/. Some background service or something, I guess. Nothing visible and user-facing has ever died once.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Tony Pursell
On 18 May 2012 16:10, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2012 15:44, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 15:23, Liam Proven wrote: But I can never tell what the problem /is/. Some background service or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
On 18 May 2012 16:56, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On 18 May 2012 16:10, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2012 15:44, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/12 15:23, Liam Proven wrote: But I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-16 Thread jim.cameron
Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. dmraid is broken again :( But I was able to use a 12.10 live CD to recover some data from my wife's colleague's Windows laptop whose hard disc had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-16 Thread Bruno Girin
On 16/05/12 06:52, Neil Greenwood wrote: I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Indeed. That hard disk currently has an unused pre-installed version of Windows Vista on it :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-16 Thread Gareth France
On 17/05/12 00:05, Bruno Girin wrote: On 16/05/12 06:52, Neil Greenwood wrote: I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Indeed. That hard disk currently has an unused pre-installed version of Windows Vista on it :-)

[ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Andy Braben
On 15 May 2012 09:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/05/12 09:48, Barry Drake wrote: Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. Bloody hell! I'm only just getting to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Kris Douglas
On 15 May 2012 10:00, Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 May 2012 09:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/05/12 09:48, Barry Drake wrote: Just thought I'd mention   last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. 

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 10:01, Kris Douglas wrote: Are there anything new in 12.10 yet? I wouldn't have thought so. I'll wait a while before upgrading my spare PC. Unity 4D :) Oh yes! And the rest. No there are no significant changes yet. I'm just interested in watching the process all the way

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/05/12 10:18, Barry Drake wrote: On 15/05/12 10:01, Kris Douglas wrote: Are there anything new in 12.10 yet? I wouldn't have thought so. No there are no significant changes yet. I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 12:32, James Tait wrote: I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very quick query on IRC - that the big sync from Debian is still to happen due to hardware issues, which would account for the lack of significant change so far. I'd be quite happy to be corrected,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Girin
On 15/05/12 15:22, Barry Drake wrote: On 15/05/12 12:32, James Tait wrote: I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very quick query on IRC - that the big sync from Debian is still to happen due to hardware issues, which would account for the lack of significant change so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: I found a forgotten HDD the other day that I didn't know what to do with. Installing Quantal pre-alpha on it sounds like a good idea. All the bugs in Quantal can't be worse than what's on it right now anyway. Thanks for the idea! Bruno Hey! 12.04 is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 10:48 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: I found a