Ubuntu Podcast Episode #12

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The lighting and sound might be a bit off on this show. We are learning as we go and it should be better in the future! Thanks to Chris and Bryan from the Linux Action Show for stopping by during our Ubuntu Podcast Ustream broadcast. Also, we may have accidentally referred to this episode as #13, our mistake. Audio files are coming soon. Show Notes:

• Ubuntu Georgia 8.10 Install Fest
  • About 20 people showed up
  • Quite a few new people
  • Got a few new Ubuntu installs going

• Spread Ubuntu 0.1 Alpha - codename "evan"
  • Awesome project to help individuals and LoCo create and share marketing material

• Dan Trevino of the Ubuntu Florida Team pointed out a bug where recovery for a RAID 10 system isn't possible.
  • Swapping out a bad drive doesn't start auto-rebuild.
  • Upstream kernel bug, which has been fixed, and committed in Intrepid
  • So kernel update should be coming for Ubuntu users soon.
  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285156

• UDS Jaunty Mountain View, CA, USA Dec 8 - 12, 2008
  • After a release, time to start planning for the next release.
  • Chance to discuss specs or come up with new specs
  • Upcoming UDS will be held at the Google headquarters
  • There will be lots of coverage
    • people will blog about it
    • lots of pictures will be taken
    • can participate in sessions on IRC and listen in

• Ubuntu Open Week just ended
  • - IRC logs are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
  • Covered wide range of ways everyone can get involved in the community
  • Mark did a session for a couple of hours -
    • Someone asked about having repository that was bleeding edge.
      • There is an intrepid daily builds PPA: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-nightly-ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
      • For Jaunty, some of the big apps might have nightly builds available like Firefox, Open Office, X, and the kernel
    • Also got asked how much success has been had with the Dell relationship?
      • Ubuntu has 3 partnerships with Dell:
        • you can get one of their current top range of laptops or desktops with linux
        • In China, can get Ubuntu on pretty much any machine
        • Vostro and Minis which have a customized Ubuntu for a specific user experience
    • When will LaunchPad be open sourced?
      • Mark promises by November 2009, maybe earlier.
      • They are working on various issues like licensing.
    • New theme for Jaunty?
      • Designers and user experience people have been hired, team will be ready by January or February
      • Not sure there will be theme changes, but at least some user experience type updates

• A repo is being set up specifically for Dell Mini 9 and other netbooks for updates and security fixes.
  • Right now, trying to find out if there is any interest from current netbook owners in helping test the updates and fixes

• Matthew Garrett rips apart Ultamatix -
  • Matthew used to be on the Ubuntu Technical Board and had done an analysis about Automatix sucking
  • Matthew starts out with a bang:
    • "This isn't constructive criticism. This is just criticism."
    • "In summary, don't bother. It's crap. And dangerous. But mostly crap."
  • What is Ultamtix?
    • Install apps that aren't in the repos because of licensing or no one has gotten around to packaging it
  • Whats so bad about it?
    • Uninstalls packages that have nothing to do with Ultamatix without asking the user
    • Basically lots of technical things where they screw up.
  • DON'T LET ANYONE INSTALL IT!

• Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmark
  • Baseline
    • Stock installation, compiz turned off
    • Tests running Java
    • Macs running official supported Java, Ubuntu running IcedTea, which uses Sun's open sourced java code and other OSS tools to create a java environment
  • Highlights
    • Urban Terror, which uses the open source quake engine, was almost 4 times faster under Apple
    • Possibly attributed to the fact that drivers in Linux are going through some changes and not quite optimized
    • Intel is working on some issues, so hopefully we will see improvement soon
    • Ubuntu did well when compiling code, encoding audio/video
    • Mac OS did well with disk benchmarking
    • Java benchmarks were split

• Phoronix redid some of their last tests where they found Ubuntu 8.10 slower than previous releases
  • For their previous tests, they used ATI binary blobs
  • Bryce Harrington, who maintains X for Ubuntu, asked them to test with the open source Mesa drivers instead
  • Phoronix found similar slow downs with the open source drivers

• IBM Symphony now available for Ubuntu
  • Also presented roadmap to using OO.o 3.0 codebase
  • Symphony will also support OpenDocument Format 1.2
  • Benefit of building with OO.o and supporting ODF 1.2 is pretty good compatibility with Office 2007 file formats and Visual Basic macros

• TimeVault - nice GUI tool for doing backups.
  • Takes snapshots of any directories
  • Can restore to previous versions, integration with nautilus
  • Supports automated snapshops
  • Can figure where snapshots are saved
  • Diff viewer

• Upgrading Ubuntu Via BitTorrent (mentioned on last podcast)

• Installing OpenVZ on Ubuntu 8.10

• Easily create USB Ubuntu Flash Drive with a Few Easy Steps

• The Matrix Runs Windows video from CollegeHumor - wait till after the credits

5 Comments

Ubuntu Podcast #12 | bored and blogging on November 17, 2008 at 5:23

[...] As usual, any feedback is welcome. Leave a comment on the podcast post. [...]

Gary Jones on November 17, 2008 at 17:18

Well done lads another cracker.

dell used laptops | Digg hot tags on November 17, 2008 at 23:14

[...] Vote Ubuntu Podcast Episode #12 [...]

MYD on November 19, 2008 at 6:57

Awesome…love your podcast…although… instead of smoking cigars you guys should try a hooka.. (just my preference…) besides that keep it up..also another suggestion (not from me a buddy of mine suggested it) was that if possible you guys could rig up a computer and actually show us stuff (desktop video) of programs and things you are talking about.. anyways…great show

Marcio Novelli on November 23, 2008 at 0:39

hi
good morning
congratulation website and podcast
i want seek episode 13
see you later my friends !!!!
Márcio Novelli
Brazil

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