> Fedora (the most-used *ix at my workplace) user experience seems to have
> improved a great deal since i last tried using it almost five years ago,
> and would probably be my next choice.
I've wanted to like and use Fedora many times. But I'm I have an
unfavorable opinion of
RPM based distros. I
Oh, it might help if I provided the link to the article...
http://m.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-1104-linux-unity/8780
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> If there's any truth to what's in this article than Unity and Linux
> consumer-oriented desktop is the
If there's any truth to what's in this article than Unity and Linux
consumer-oriented desktop is the direction Shuttleworth plans to take
Ubuntu.
=> Shuttleworth opened by saying that the main point of Ubuntu 11.04
with Unity was “to bring the joys and freedoms and innovation and
performance and s
On 05/02/2011 07:28 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Quantify and compare the results. Send a copy to Shuttleworth.
thanks, John and Mike, for keeping a positive tone.
i usually wait at least a month before installing the latest Ubuntu
release, but this time around i'm sticking with 10.10 because
> Give half of them Natty and half of them Maverick. Make each user work
> alone at home so none sees what any of the others are doing. Give them
> specific user type tasks, such as "write a letter to a potential
> employer," "write a term paper for school," "find the meanings of terms
> on wikiped
On Mon, 02 May 2011 17:36:53 -0700
Word Wizard dijo:
>Either the OS is designed for newcomers or Linux or veteran users.
So you conclude that a distro can't meet the needs of more than one of
these groups?
>Right now Natty seems totally hostile to the former while a pain in
>the backside from
Therein lies the rub.
Either the OS is designed for newcomers or Linux or veteran users.
Right now Natty seems totally hostile to the former while a pain in the
backside from at least some veteran users. I'm no MS/CS sys-admin but
I'm not a Linux or Ubuntu newbie either. I love the ease of inst
> I run Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) w/Gnome and the Avant panel. It is
> absolutely perfect in every aspect, so far superior to Windows I would
> not run W7 even if it were free. I use some KDE apps like the K3B
> burner and I even ran the pre-release Gnome3/Gnome shell with not one
> problem. Fast, t
> I just got back from Linuxfest NorthWest and I spoke with quite a few people
> about this. Almost all of them dislike Unity. It is about the same as when
> KDE went from 3 to 4... everyone hated it, but now that it has matured a
> bit, it is an excellent desktop. The little bit of playing I did
. An in-depth study of the reactions and problems
> of new desktop users, comparing Unity, Gnome, KDE, and a few others,
> would be very revealing.
>
> I won't speculate as to the outcome. I only wish to point out that
> without some scientific evidence, everything that people say pro and
> con Uni
I run Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) w/Gnome and the Avant panel. It is
absolutely perfect in every aspect, so far superior to Windows I would
not run W7 even if it were free. I use some KDE apps like the K3B
burner and I even ran the pre-release Gnome3/Gnome shell with not one
problem. Fast, totally
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, website reader
wrote:
> The newer drives (particularly Intel and OCZ) look very promising... but ???
No personal experience yet, but thought this was interesting:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html
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Dan Young
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On 5/2/11, Word Wizard wrote:
> The installer had the correct resolution, possibly because I edited the
> boot-loader menu with the vga=795 command line addition. However, the
> installation came up 640x480 with 320x240 as the only option,
> regardless of any command line edits. I managed to do
The installer had the correct resolution, possibly because I edited the
boot-loader menu with the vga=795 command line addition. However, the
installation came up 640x480 with 320x240 as the only option,
regardless of any command line edits. I managed to download and
install the latest NVidi
I just got back from Linuxfest NorthWest and I spoke with quite a few people
about this. Almost all of them dislike Unity. It is about the same as when
KDE went from 3 to 4... everyone hated it, but now that it has matured a
bit, it is an excellent desktop. The little bit of playing I did with
Un
I have been using Kubuntu 11.04 since Alpha 2 and have had almost no
problems at all. Are you saying that the installer is at 640x480 with
Nvidia or is that after the install is done and you boot into it for the
first time? I'll give it a go on my system and see what happens. If it is
at the fir
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