The Ubuntu BOF was pretty good. We had about nine people there, spanning seasoned pros like Jeff Waugh and newbies like myself. Since I called the BOF to order, I got to ask a lot of stupid questions, and luckily I got them all answered. What follows is some random notes that I scribbled down in a sticky:
Regarding repositories, my questions were around problems that I am encountering when I put in some quirky repositories (Multiverse and beyond). The problem is that the Ubuntu update thingy will look at all repositories, and start giving you packages from the non-stable area. Jeff recommended the following:update-rc.d --> manage startup scripts in Debian / Ubuntu. All this does is to manage the symlinks, I think. In Debian, everything in /etc/rc2.d that is executable will be launched -- there is no funny business.
For questions about the mythtv packages on Ubuntu, I was told to IRC. On the Freenode servers, #ubuntu, I should talk to mdz (Matt Zimmerman) about the mythtv package. I suspect that there might be a bug in the startup sequence, so that mythtv-backend doesn't start properly on boot.
Debian documentation is installed with Ubuntu and applies to Ubuntu.Ubuntu is building a linux hardware database - Ubuntu Device DB (system tools). Can report to central server. This allows the Ubuntu folks to press hardware vendors to support Ubuntu -- because they can back that need up with actual usage statistics.
Finally, someone told me that I can use "evolution --force-shutdown" whenever I want to restart Evolution cleanly, rather than just killing all of the processes. I'll have to try that the next time Evolution crashes.
Posted by andyr at August 4, 2005 11:04 PM