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Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by X4 »

csense wrote: post #124

The main feature I'm looking forward to is zswap in kernel 3.11 [1]. Basically instead of swapping, the kernel will first compress infrequently used pages in RAM, which is orders of magnitude faster than swapping to disk. The practical effect of this is basically the same as a free RAM upgrade! [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/

You mean zram, right? I've been using that for months on Gentoo, it gave me about 10% speedup. Maybe you already have it available too, try:

     $ sudo modprobe zram

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by foobarqux »

nobleach wrote: post #77

Let me guess. Postgres 9.1, Ruby 1.9.1, PHP 5.3.11, a lot of extremely old packages... Please tell me if I'm wrong! I'm really tired of the software world moving forward and Ubuntu turning into Debian Woody.

Why do you care what version Ruby Ubuntu uses? Using ruby from repos is essentially unsuppported by the ruby community.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by yapcguy »

giovannibajo1 wrote: post #129
csense wrote: post #124

The main feature I'm looking forward to is zswap in kernel 3.11 [1]. Basically instead of swapping, the kernel will first compress infrequently used pages in RAM, which is orders of magnitude faster than swapping to disk. The practical effect of this is basically the same as a free RAM upgrade! [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/

Mavericks has the same feature, curious they're both shipping at the same time

I guess we'll never know if Apple engineers were "inspired" by Zram and Zswap Linux development. I don't think anything like this is available in Freebsd yet.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2012-...

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by cmiles74 »

djeikyb wrote: post #78
cmiles74 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I call out to setxkbmap to get this done. It should work with any window manager and desktop environment.[0] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps [0] https://gist.github.com/Spoygg/3122226

Last time I was using Ubuntu+Unity as my main desktop (11.xx), I used `xmodmap` to swap my keys, and found that every so often it'd be reverted. Have you experienced similar problems with this technique?

I put it in my startup script, it runs every login.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by candl »

Theriac25 wrote: post #112
Daishiman wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always found that continous upgrade eventually break the system. A clean install should be the recommended choice.

That's just beyond retarded. I weep when people have been conditioned by Canonical (and Microsoft) to accept this.

Here's a video of a continuous upgrade from ms-dos through every windows version all up to windows 7 (a timespan of ~20 years) that proves it's possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by izietto »

Flimm wrote: post #73
chatman wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ubuntu is developed in the open Though mostly "open", but not developed entirely in the right free software / open source spirit of community involvement and upstream contributions.

Of course it's not developed 100% entirely in the open and with "spirit of community". Name one company that meets this standard.

Debian

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by JSno »

csense wrote: post #124

The main feature I'm looking forward to is zswap in kernel 3.11 [1]. Basically instead of swapping, the kernel will first compress infrequently used pages in RAM, which is orders of magnitude faster than swapping to disk. The practical effect of this is basically the same as a free RAM upgrade! [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/

For programmers or IT related people, you can easily compile kernel 3.12 with in 10 commands. and reboot.It will give you latest kernel. 1. install git. 2. get linux kernel from Linus tree. 3. google how to compile kernel and compile it. 4. restart. Note: ubuntu will elegantly handle GRUB2 for you. That means when you reboot, you are able to choose what kernel you want to use. Try this, and you won't need to wait for UBuntu 13.XX 14.XX for new kernel you want to use.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by Demiurge »

Demiurge wrote: post #39
frank_boyd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd reply to that: Various types of freedom and a higher degree of respect for your privacy (I know, it's not a cure-all solution, but the next step that needs to be taken by society).

Are these things something manufacturers put in the specifications for the computers the sell? Are these things something customers shopping for a computer look for?

lol it's funny I'm getting downmoded as if I am responsible for the answers to these questions.

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

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Post by baldfat »

puller wrote: post #56
baldfat wrote: post #7

Ubuntu is not going the direction I want for "my Linux. 1. Mir is a huge mistake (My opinion) 2. Unity (Well I am tiled window manager (i3) guy now so all DEs) I really don't like the flow of OS X and it is starting to really look more like OS X. DEFAULT an easily be changed. 3. Lack of community between the Linux ecosystem. Millions is spent on Ubuntu but seems like little makes it upstream. 4. Software Center. They…

So what? These aren't criticisms of today's release at all. Mir isn't even used in 13.10. I don't think there are any distributions which ship with i3 so you would have to install i3 in any case, that isn't a fault of Ubuntu's and since you are not using it anyway, who cares if it looks like OS X to you? Ubuntu's work is open source, the code is there under a liberal license, what do you even want? If you don't like…

So what? These aren't criticisms of today's release at all.

Mir isn't even used in 13.10

BUT they are spending resources on Mir WHEN they could have just gone with Wayland.

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