more than 128 M needed for liveCD

Foxy foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Tue Nov 7 19:31:25 UTC 2006


Jani Monoses wrote:
> 
> On 11/7/06, *Adam Miller* <maxamillion at gmail.com 
> <mailto:maxamillion at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jani,
>          Fair enough. I will agree that I would like to see samba
>     support in Thunar or atleast a plugin written for it. I would like
>     to see Feisty be our boost into the realm of the others and I plan
>     to do my best to be very active in its progress. Also, I heard rumor
>     of beryl taking over as the window manager for Feisty, any truth in
>     this?
> 
> 
> You're very welcome to help. Actually I'd like many more people starting 
> to contribute regularly in various aspects of xubuntu development.
> Just as with the website we need small and not necessarily disjoint 
> teams concentrating on
>  - constant bug triaging and coordination with xfce bugzilla
>  - artwork
>  - documentation
>  - possibly packaging work
> 
> The main difference I'dlike to see from dapper and edgy is these teams 
> being autonomous and on top of these areas the best they can with no 
> dependency on my or someone else's opinion but based on community 
> feedback and working very close with the respective ubuntu teams making 
> sure artwork and doc and related administrivia or technical details are 
> taken care of.
> A requirement for all development work is these people running feisty as 
> soon as possible in the release cycle otherwise things get slowed down.
> Jonathan also said he'd try arranging regular Q&A session with volunteer 
> community people so we have less random bug reporting patterns
> 
> As for beryl, the beryl devs are here currently at UDS Mountain View, 
> and this is one of the items being discussed and high priority for 
> feisty. It remain to be seen how it will work out, the specs are at
> 
> https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/accelerated-x
> 
> I am not sure how this will affect xubuntu, we will definitely not drop 
> default xfwm4 but AFAIK beryl integrates nicely with xfce. As with most 
> areas we wait to see how ubuntu's side of the work pans out.
> 
> Jani
> 
well, quinn-compiz worked very nicely with xfce on my 855GM chip, but 
the current version of beryl is slow and also freezes my laptop on 
start.The switch between beryl and xfwm4 does not work for me either. I 
am still on Dapper btw.




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