Comments on: Lucid Alpha 1 â€“ Fewer Games, Installer Changes, Impatient Friendly

By: tallman

tallman — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:38:00 +0000

It’s called byobu, not byubo

By: monad

monad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:33:00 +0000

A “byobu” is a fancy Japanese screen. Pretty clever name.

By: monad

monad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:26:00 +0000

Byobu’s nice, but it’s not *that* amazing. It’s just a really well-done & friendly set of configurations for ‘screen’, which is the program which is actually providing all of that functionality.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:47:00 +0000

Niiiice!!!! The most important feature here is the ‘update’ button. Wow that makes everything quicker.

And like motang said those are a lot of changes for an Alpha 1 release!

By: Brett Alton

Brett Alton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:21:00 +0000

You’ve got to talk to Kirkland about Byubo. It’s more than just some stats at the bottom of a terminal, it’s a whole windows manager (think Enlightment, Fluxbox, etc.) for the terminal! You can have multiple terminal tabs open, change the title of each tab, have each tab show different stats (of the server its running on), have different colours depending what server you’re on, etc.

It’s quite an amazing accomplishment for the CLI community. I use it on any of my servers that are 9.04+ (unfortunately doesn’t run on 8.04 LTS).

He had a presentation on it for OpenWeek too.

I saw that it was in the System Tools menu, which will give it good visibility, I’m just not sure how many normal users would use it.

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:05:00 +0000

People, Byobu ships with Karmic — a fact I learnt from this site.

Just type byobu in your terminal (working with Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu 9.10 here) and it should appear.

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:01:00 +0000

Also, check out your sources.list in nano. It’s colour coded!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0000

At UDS I believe they talked about it seeming very windows 95, but it has just had a clutter eye candy overhaul, so perhaps upon seeing that they realised it isnt windows 95y anymore. I’m just guessing though.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:58:00 +0000

If he is referring to the skip language packs button that appears towards the end of the installation process it has been there for years. :-

By: Seif Sallam

Seif Sallam — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:54:00 +0000

they said that they will remove Mines, but why is it still there :S

By: Narfzilla

Narfzilla — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:17:00 +0000

Maybe my graphic tablet will work in this version… : /

I have to back to 9.04 because this…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:41:00 +0000

“A new application sat in the System Tools menu is Byubo, which adds some stat info to the bottom of the terminal window.”

Byobu does more than that – run it, and then type –help

You can run a heap of useful commands to get information on your system. I guess it’s in the alpha releases for the developers to get easy access to system info.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:46:00 +0000

What is byubo? It looks really cool and didn’t come up easily with a google search.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:10:00 +0000

cool im looking forward to lucid more than any other previous release!

By: Steve Love

Steve Love — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:48:00 +0000

No prob. I just thought maybe I’d gone crazy. :)

By: d0od

d0od — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:41:00 +0000

It may well have been, but it’s certainly the first time i noticed.

Not installing very often (or paying attention during the actual install bit) means you’re probably right. I only noticed it just as it finished installing.

By: Steve Love

Steve Love — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:37:00 +0000

Is “Download Skip” mentioned in the Alpha 1 release notes or something? Because I’m pretty sure it was present in the Karmic installation. I distinctly remember choosing to skip the language pack download because it was taking too long when installing 9.10 on my work machine.

By: Robo

Robo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:13:00 +0000

Please get the “Authentications” choice back in the menu.

By: AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:01:00 +0000

For once, I completely agree with all of these changes!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:39:00 +0000

While none of these are revolutionary (and it is alpha 1), they’re great to see! The finer tweaks are what make all the difference, I think. You could have some big missing pieces, but if what you have works together very fluidly and intuitively, it can make up for that. I didn’t notice these (other than the games) when playing with the alpha iso, so it’s nice to see a rundown, too. Thanks! Keep up the great blog!