Remember the old days, when Linux was a nightmare to run on a laptop because half the hardware would not be supported and you would spend days in vain trying to make it work? While those times seemed like a thing of the past for a few years, my recent experience installing Linux on some laptops made me feel as if I had been time warped back to the Linux Dark Ages. It all started when I had to give my trusted Lenovo T61 to a student whose laptop had been damaged in a recent fire on campus. I had...
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feel comfortable with Unity. You still have a choice, which should calm down the hysteria over the dramatic change in desktop interfaces. If you don't like Unity, it's dead simple to launch the Gnome desktop instead.
Download it over here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download or http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/ Here are some of the release notes (Full details here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes ): New Features Unity is now the default Ubuntu desktop session. The Unity launcher has many new features, including drag and drop re-ordering of launcher icons, full keyboard navigation support, launcher activation through keyboard shortcuts, right-click context menu quick-list and switching...
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Android and webOS both use the Linux kernel, but they're not considered 'Linux', webOS isn't even open source. Is it the accessibility of the source code, the willingness of the vendor to include the word 'Linux' in the name of the product, or does it have to be based on GNU/Linux?
I decided to give Ubuntu a go as my main PC OS and it's been pretty awesome so far, but one thing that is a pain in the ass is that when I scroll up and down on webpages I have to move the scroll wheel a lot more than I did when I was on Windows.
If anybody has both an iPhone and Ubuntu and has had any success in syncing media between the two platforms, then why not take a few minutes to share your experiences here - http://askubuntu.com/questions/6567/ios-media-sync...
The default picture manager is being replaced by something that's actually good, the software centre is having a "For Purchase" section added to it, and Netbook users should try out the Ubuntu Netbook Edition to enjoy the Unity interface designed by Canonical for these small screens. You don't even need to mess about with your Windows installation in order to try it out. You can run the installed from within Windows, and it will simply be moved aside to make a little space...
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I therefore need a laptop recommendation. Some prerequisites: a) Out-of-box Ubuntu install compatibility. No driver issues for _any_ of the subsystems on the machine. b) Required network connectivity: Wireless-N, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet. WWAN (Gobi or 3G) a plus. Required port connectivity: 2 or more USB ports, VGA and/or HDMI, audio I/O (digital I/O a plus). Docking port a plus, SD reader a plus, firewire a plus - but not required. c) SSD storage, or easy upgradeability to SSD, a must....
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Alright, let's say I have a budget of $500 USD. What is the absolute best laptop I can buy to put Ubuntu 10.04 on, netbook or not? What is my use case? Anything really. Let's say it will be my travel computer. So sure, maybe smaller is better, but I currently travel with a 15" MacBook Pro, so I'm not opposed to that size. Bonus points for using gdgt links.
I did a similar post on what I thought about the iPad and desktop OS but I thought it would be fun to do a thread on just where do you see OSes in 10 years, mobile and desktop.
I've used OSX and Windows 7, and the only reason I would ever use either is because there aren't enough applications for it. Ubuntu is more than capable of running modern apps even better than Windows 7 or OSX, but nobody bothers writing them because there isn't a big enough market. And because there aren't enough apps, not many people use Ubuntu. It goes in a loop and the only reason Ubuntu is gaining users is because it's so amazing - even without a giant solid base of...
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Howtogeek.com posted up instructions here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-b... If you change the button ordering, it's going to look a bit weird. You can fix that by changing to a different window theme.
I found the screenshot tool that's installed by default to be a bit cumbersome. For instance, I tried to take a screenshot of my entire desktop and it included the "Take Screenshot" window! Another time I took a screenshot of a selected area and it had pieces of the area selector border. Sigh. I really like Snipping Tool on Windows Vista/7, so if there's anything that's EXACTLY like that, it would be amazing.
- Gchat does not connect through Empathy. For some reason, it never works for me and gives this message: "Disconnected - No reason specified". So frustrating! - Resizing a window is like threading a needle. The padding area (not sure if that is the right work) where you need to place your mouse to resize is so narrow, I always miss it. Anyone have suggestions on how to fix these two issues?
desktop. After booting, I promptly split it up into 2 equal partitions and added them into fstab with PySDM (http://pysdm.sourceforge.net/). After rebooting my drives were automounted, as expected, but owned by root and read-only on my user account, not expected. PySDM set the options as "defaults" so I changed both of them to "rw,user,auto" after a lengthy Ubuntu Forums search session. Now this time on reboot, they're still owned by root and read-only, and I can no...
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Anybody know of any ways to play .m4p files under Ubuntu? I know that they're encoded .m4a's, but am (so far) unable to get them to play in any player on my system. I've tried VLC, Amarok and RhythmBox.
My PC is running XP from one of the partitions of its raid array and I want to install Ubuntu 9.10 x64 to an unallocated partition. However, the installer CD shows the raid array with no partitions and choosing manual mode doesn’t provide any option to select a partition either. What’s the solution?
one day it finds the network perfect. The next day it doesn't. The day after that it sees the network but dhcp is being a biotch. Any good suggestions on maintaining a good wireless connection day to day, and reboot after reboot.
Stupid question! Is it easy to upgrade from 8.04 to this version, or any other version for that matter? I'm asking because I was thinking about getting a netbook with it preinstalled (with all the correct drivers I'm assuming) and you can only get it in 8.04, so I would like to upgrade that!
