Ubuntu – What happened to Gobuntu

The original plans were presented by Debbie Beliveau and Michael Frey. If you want to know what happened to their plans, you'd probably do best to ping them an email. Most Ubuntu developers don't bite and I'm sure they'd be happy to explain.

Actually, I'm curious about this too, so I'll send them both an email now. I'll post back with any response.

There have been rumblings of activity elsewhere since in other distributions but I've never seen anything as positive as the UDS presentation a couple of years ago.

There is a way to run some Android applications inside Ubuntu: you install the Android software development kit and run applications on a virtual device. Far from perfect but perhaps enough for simple needs.

The kernel used to have a config option for whether to use ATIME or RELATIME; dunno if that also included some option for NOATIME. In any case, that's gone now.

I studied util-linux as well, to see if the mount command had configurable defaults or could be modified, but it did not appear to be the case.

However, it looks like you can patch the kernel to change the default behavior. Modify ./fs/namespace.c, around lines 2334:

long do_mount(...)
...
    /* Default to relatime unless overriden */
    if (!(flags & MS_NOATIME))
            mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
...

Swap that around:

long do_mount(...)
...
    /* Default to noatime unless overriden */
    if (!(flags & MS_RELATIME))
            mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME;
...

And that should do it.