On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Robert Wall<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 18:50 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: >> What is the best way to describe https://ubuntuone.com/ to attendees? >> >> The wikipedia page [1] has a pretty good summary "Ubuntu One is a >> storage application and service operated by Canonical Ltd and >> currently in private beta." It currently requires an Ubuntu 9.04 >> Jaunty (or 9.10 Karmic) machine for now but I don't know of any >> announced or rumored plans to expand that. >> >> Grant Bowman >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam >> >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_One also links to some of the >> controversy over the naming. > > Another thing that may be important (and which may be of interest to > OSCON people, if we're going to get Ubuntu One questions): in Karmic, > ubuntu-desktop now recommends ubuntuone-client-gnome [1], which means > that new installs of Ubuntu Karmic will have the client by default (and, > if I remember correctly, many users will get it when upgrading Jaunty to > Karmic). > > [1] This was effected about eight hours ago. the relevant diff for > ubuntu-meta (the source package for ubuntu-desktop) is > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29048341/ubuntu-meta_1.152_1.153.diff.gz
Wow, that seems a little bit of a forward leaning decision to me. I wonder if it will ship that way. Thanks for keeping us updated. I would be surprised if nobody mentioned this little change during the show. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
