Marc W. Mengel wrote: > Andy Buckley wrote: >> Troy Dawson wrote: >> >>> **Ubuntu Creep >>> - We ran out of time for this. >> Oh well! Does anyone have any comments to make online? > > My claim is that we will continue to have Ubuntu creep until such time > as we have some (new) people doing a SL-Laptop distro, which would have to: > * run a bleeding edge kernel (for h/w, docking, suspend support), and > * have assorted cool wireless utilities, etc. > * have ssh, etc. configured to run HEPiX-wide [...] > But it's going to require at least 4 people with a ready supply of > current laptop hardware to make it happen. I would ask whether that's a good use of community funds, given that there are already distributions which exist at the bleeding edge with this functionality. I would rather see that level of effort go into improving the portability of core HEP software, rather than perpetually rebadging commodity distributions. Andy -- Dr Andy Buckley Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology Durham University 0191 3343798 | 0191 3732613 | www.insectnation.org