Hi I am puneet

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 19 March 2010 17:26, puneet singh <everlasting.puneet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello every one,
> My name is Puneet Singh, I am pursuing B.tech of computer science and I am
> very much interested in Developing something for Ubuntu. I am in final year
> so I've got ample amount of time to dedicate to any project.
> My Idea Idea for Gsoc :
> 1) Nautilus is really easy to use and powerful yet very slow.I am speaking
> in terms of loading a folder. Also there is no good search option, the
> legacy search option is too slow compared to other operating systems like
> windows and mac.

You might be able to work on improving Nautilus performance by working
in GSoC with Gnome instead of Ubuntu. Because Ubuntu is not upstream
for nautilus.

For searching have you tried tracker? It indexes and allows quick
searching. Also Gnome is working on zeitgeist and activity journal
which are IMHO far superior search methods than windows and mac.
Activity journal is targetted at Gnome 3.0 though.

> 2) An application to Update all computers which are connected through LAN
> from any computer which gets updated first.
> For example, If some one updates his/her Ubuntu then all other users using
> the same LAN can update that package from him/her. This will save lots of
> bandwidth and load on servers as well as users will get Instant packages( As
> places where internet is distributed on LAN like in colleges Speed of
> Internet generally degrades and LAN is having 100Mbps speed which is any
> time faster than that of internet).
> I already have implemented this in Java (with little success).

Have you tried apt-cacher-ng? It does what you need =) also there is
squid configuration to make local deb caches be auto-discoverable on
local network using avahi. (available in lucid already as far as I
know).

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Dima.