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Sysprof Ubuntu packages

2005-11-15 at 12:30 · Filed under GNOME, Ubuntu

Here’s my way to help improve GNOME 2.14 performance: Ubuntu packages for the sysprof profiler:

    deb http://www.gnome.org/~martink/2005/sysprof/i386 ./
    deb http://www.gnome.org/~martink/2005/sysprof/amd64 ./
    deb-src http://www.gnome.org/~martink/2005/sysprof/source ./

They were built on Ubuntu dapper but probably work on breezy too. Sysprof comes with a kernel module. I’ve included packages for the Ubuntu 2.6.12-9 kernels. If you’ve built your own kernel, install the sysprof-source package and module-assistant, then run:

    sudo module-assistant auto-install sysprof-source

and if all goes well, the module will be built and installed for your running kernel.

I’ll happily hand off maintenance of these packages to a Debian Developer or an Ubuntu MOTU. Just as happily will I accept patches to make this work on Debian.

 

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Linux-Info-Tag Dresden

2005-11-02 at 22:38 · Filed under Events, GNOME, Ubuntu

Saturday was the third Linux-Info-Tag, a small regional Linux gathering with project booths and two lecture tracks, in Dresden. I was there with Julius to man the GNOME booth. Unfortunately the GNOME Event Box was still in Munich, so we didn’t have any big banners with GNOME feet. That, and almost 600 Ubuntu Breezy CDs, made our booth look much like an Ubuntu booth. Oh well.

This has immediate consequences on the questions people ask. Instead of “What is GNOME,” they ask “Is Ubuntu like Linux or SUSE,” or instead of “I’m a happy KDE user, why should I use GNOME,” they ask “What does Ubuntu that SUSE doesn’t do.” I always forget how wide-spread SUSE is among (at least the) less geeky Linux users here in Germany.

OTOH people ask more general Linux questions, like “I’ve got a TV card and use it as a digital VCR with Windows. Is this possible with Linux,” or extremely specialized questions about PDF (I didn’t even tell him about my GPdf/Evince background).

Most visitors came in the breaks between the talks. That means we didn’t have much to do during the talks. So we decided to re-enact the Ubuntu CD cover (photo by Sven Guckes):

Linux-Info-Tag Circle

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