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On VMWare Server 2.x It does appear that using any kernel newer than the base kernel (might be related xorg package) on Xubuntu 9.10 causes an odd glitch where the login page comes up but X restarts after login and tosses you back out to the login page.

Sometimes going into xterm session and running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

then exiting to restart X resolves the issue for a single login. Reading online hardcoding resolutions might also solve the issue with an xorg.conf file.(Note Xubuntu by default no longer has a xorg.conf file so you have to create it.)

This issue does not effect VirtualBox, might effect VMware player and is unlikely to effect the live DVD/USB.

Should we temporarily disable the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to exlude kernel updates? I also think we should modify the ubuntu config to only notify users about updates every 3-7 days. So that a normal person using it in a workshop will never see the update prompt.

Right now we have a pgadmin shortcut but that might not be clear to people that don't realize that is the quickest tool to interact with postgis and pgrouting. Maybe we should rename the shortcut and/or create shortcuts for Postgis and pgRouting that go their documentation pages and include a pgadmin launch button in the docs.

Hamish has indicated that a target of 3.2GB image may work better for usb sticks of 4 GB, partly to leave adequate space for users to save their own data. Calculating a 2x compression factor that means we would need to trim 500-600 MB from the current virtual machine to reach that goal. I think targeting 4.0 release for this feature would be good. This may coincide with simplification of the example datasets into one common pool and reducing size of some samples like the postgres medford database.