Ad Terras Per Aspera

After hours of hard labor, Ubuntu Dapper has been released. Congradulations, everybody!

I was having a discussion in #ubuntu-devel about bootchart and in how well in detail it measures the boot up process, so I suggested that it should be added to LiveCDs as to measure a ‘stock’ setup more easier. The IO records wouldn’t be valid against anything but other LiveCDs, but doing this could make testing random machine’s performance a lot easier.

Jeff Schroeder wants this to be an option on the boot menu, and thinks that it should “have a little wizard to email the bootchart back to ubuntu.org” and Brandon Hale wants Oliver Grawert to add the ability to use bootcharts to hwdb.

206… well, on my machine at least. And the funny part is, thats slow; must be the apache2, mysql, openssh, and distcc adding ten seconds (from Dapper’s default 35) to it.

I could switch from openssh to dropbear, but dropbear doesn’t support fuse’s sshfs correctly (to my much dismay, seeing as I can’t openssh to my openwrt and use a real vi locally on my workstation because of that…), and seeing as I run a local copy of gallery2, I can’t drop apache2 or mysql. Oh well.

If you haven’t noticed, Breezy has finally been released. In the first 8 hours, the mirror at mnet.net.uk uploaded almost 3500 CD ISOs, and the mirror at acc.umu.se uploaded almost 2225 ISOs. I wonder if this means 5725 potential new users…