Lubuntu is faster than Xubuntu. I've installed it on an 7 yr old Compaq
desktop with 480 RAM and 1.4 ghz cpu and it's very responsive.
http://lubuntu.net/blog/lubuntu-1004-now-available-download
it's a 521MB live Cd.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote:
... ended up taking the Epson back and bought a HP C4795 all-in-one,
installed without any trouble. Very nice printer. My client is happy. :)
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Fred James fredj...@fredjame.cnc.netwrote:
David Kaplan wrote:
Does anyone know if an HP C4795 Printer /Scanner work
Does anyone know if an HP C4795 Printer /Scanner work with Ubuntu? I've
installed Lubuntu 10.04 on an old Compaq and it runs great except that the
Epson Stylus MX110 all-in-one (was a good one in
http://www.openprinting.org/printers) printer works but the scanner will
not, I think it's defective.
Hey Dave,
I've worked for the Psoriasis Foundation for several years - I am close
friends with their former acting president - and think they are a nice
group of folks. Plus - they are within walking distance - at the
intersection of Garden Home / Scholls Ferry Allen Blvd. Their IT guy
Travis
The video is 29 min. long.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.netwrote:
Wayne == Wayne E Van Loon w...@pacifier.com writes:
Maybe that's why, following the link that promisingly says, Watch
Online:
I ran the torrents yesterday and it took only 25 min to install the live CD.
10.04 is running great! Ubuntu's getting better all the time. :)
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jason Barnett
jason.barnet...@gmail.comwrote:
Torrents are definitely the way to go when a new version is released.
I meant 25 min to *download* the live CD. Install took about 20 min.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com wrote:
I ran the torrents yesterday and it took only 25 min to install the live
CD.
10.04 is running great! Ubuntu's getting better all the time
If you like KDE over Gnome, Mandriva 2010 One is an excellent choice. Try it
out and see for yourself.
Mandriva does a better job with KDE than Kubuntu.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05749
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bruce kd7...@gmail.com wrote:
All,
I have been, with the help of
I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 and it's been running very good. Even
did a
sudo apt-get -u upgrade and it went very smooth, even fixed the bugs from
beta 1. Will reinstall with final version April 29.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Michael mich...@jamhome.us wrote:
I must be
I would like a lot of windows users to discover Linux, and Ubuntu does as
good a job as any to do that.
Ubuntu, Mint and Mandriva are the distros that will get more people to use
Linux and that's a good thing no matter what all you narrow minded dweebs
think!
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM,
Nathan,
Big improvement over the existing one.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM, nat...@nathanewilliams.com wrote:
Hello plug!
(i seem to've missed the mark on plug-web, so i'm reposting this here.)
i attended my first PLUG meeting, and definitely plan on attending
more. :) at the meeting
Sounds like some bad hardware...CD ROM or motherboard or hdd.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta on an extra hdd and it's running very
well. Looking forward to the final version April 29.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.netwrote:
As I mentioned earlier, my
http://www.openprinting.org/printers
check this listing, the F300 is listed. It says it mostly works.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:06 PM, dfhubb...@freegeek.org wrote:
I am trying to scan using my HP Deskset F380 . I can't find any
instructions for other than for windows and those do not
Try this company:
http://3btech.net/systems2-amd.html
Very good deals.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a new computer
I am on a very limited budget...
My current computer is AMD +1800 .. ..The CPU goes to 100% when I use
a browser..
Before you buy one, read this:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/69182.html
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote:
The first PC built by the community for the community.
It's kind of neat to that they took a customer survey and mostly
built it out
Before you buy one, read this:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/69182.html
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote:
The first PC built by the community for the community.
It's kind of neat to that they took a customer survey and mostly
built it out
drive.
--
Matt M.
LinuxKnight
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension
8400
desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at
sata
1. The BIOS
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Neal nsed...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension 8400
desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at
sata
1
...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:40 AM, David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com wrote:
I will try switching the cables and see if the 320gb is detected. If the
320gb is not detected in the sata 0 postion, maybe its a bad drive? I
plan
to go back and try tomorrow. Thanks.
I doubt it's a bad
I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension 8400
desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at sata
1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first 250gb
hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way
and on-topic
plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic
plug@lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can't see second hard drive for Linux Mint install
David Kaplan wrote:
I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell
How to get the word out about Linux is a good question. I have done it on my
own. In the past year I have installed Linux Mint on around 20 computers for
people who knew very little about computers at all. They have all be very
happy using Mint. I use other distros, but I've found that Mint has
The public is so conditioned by the last 15 years of Microsoft that they
can't think straight and are too lazy to look for other choices.
I do what I can to get new users to try Linux. I've used at least 10
different distros and the best one for new users is Linux Mint. I would say
that 3 in 10
So what! The 32 bit works just fine. 95% of the public could care less if
its 32 or 64 bit.
Don't let that get in the way of getting others to use Linux.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:23 AM, logical american
website.read...@gmail.comwrote:
Someone recently wrote:
Burn copies of Linux Mint 8
I have Virtual Box running in Mandriva 2010, and I have Win 7 installed and
running fine in Vbox.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.orgwrote:
I too run VirtualBox under Ubuntu. On Virtualbox, I run win2k, ecco,
quickbooks and quicken. I take great care, to
I'm interested in meeting with all who want to promote Linux usage to the
general public.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mike Connors mconno...@gmail.com wrote:
Scott Garman wrote:
http://www.possepdx.org , the Portland Open Source Software
Entrepreneurs, is an attempt at just that.
Then use Mandriva 2010 One KDE. It's a very good for KDE. And more trouble
free than Fedora or OpenSuse.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:53 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0800
David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com dijo:
Mint 8:
http://distrowatch.com
John,
Mandriva has improved a lot in the last couple years. I don't subscribe to
any of their programs. I only use Mandriva 2010 One, it's free and it's
fine. It's not perfect, but no distro is. I normally use Gnome, but their
KDE version is very good. Plus, their forum is one of the most
Mint 8:
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05795
Smooth as silk. Everything works!
Try it and see.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:06:18 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:53:07 -0800
Did you add yourself to the scanner group?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Donkyhotay donkyho...@verizon.net wrote:
I recently changed distro's from ubuntu to arch a few weeks ago. It's
worked pretty well for me except for one small problem I've
actually scan from the terminal just fine with
my user account. I have also tried logging in as root and running xsane
but there was no difference.
Do not be afraid to joust a giant just because some people believe in
windmills.
David Kaplan wrote:
Did you add yourself to the scanner group
. morris...@nclack.k12.or.us
The more people write, the better chance to save the class.
Thanks,
Dave
-- Forwarded message --
From: I Erbs eye...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM
To: David Kaplan dav...@gmail.com
My principal wants to kill off my linux classes next
Here's Ira's letter that he sent out of his advisory group.
-- Forwarded message --
From: er...@nclack.k12.or.us
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Subject: class changes for next year
To: Rita Maupin maup...@nclack.k12.or.us
Cc: Dave K dav...@gmail.com, Ken N k...@nwca.com,
-- Forwarded message --
From: David Kaplan dav...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Subject: Fwd: LINUX restored
To: dave...@gmail.com
-- Forwarded message --
From: er...@nclack.k12.or.us
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Subject: LINUX restored
Mandriva One is free and works as well as Ubuntu, Mint, openSuse, and
Fedora!
Has the best wifi connection I've found.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, wes p...@the-wes.com wrote:
PS: I only replied in the first place because it was suggested that no
one was using Mandriva - it seems
It seems that nobody here uses Mandriva. The new version 2010 is quite nice.
It's equal to Ubuntu, which I use as well.
Give it a try... http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05749
The KDE version is the best I've seen. And I'm a Gnome user overall.
Dave
___
Give Mandriva 2010 a try, it's equal to Ubuntu and does a great job with
KDE!
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:56 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:12:41 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
If I bring a linux live disk to the store, and
John,
You want cutting edge and stable. Stabler than Fedora? Try Arch Linux.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch
I think you'll like it.
Dave
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:06:56
...@nellump.net wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:44:14AM -0700, David Kaplan wrote:
... because most employees and managers are ignorant of Linux and
it's time they did know the truth.
It's not about truth, it's about incentives. Retailers don't know how
to make money off of Free Software
Here's the latest Blog of Helios.
http://www.linuxlock.blogspot.com/
Ken points out that Best Buy, Office Depot and others are lying to people
about Linux so they only think to buy Windows 7.
Maybe it's time to speak with some of these managers make them aware of
their misinformation. I'll bring
what an OS is, as
long as you know how to dink with your computer, and as long as you don't
mind maintaining not one, but _two_ OS's, then go for it.
On Thu, September 10, 2009 8:44 am, David Kaplan wrote:
Here's the latest Blog of Helios.
http://www.linuxlock.blogspot.com/
Ken points out
of excepting and using Linux.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jameson Williams
jame...@jamesonwilliams.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:51 PM, David Kaplan dave...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a website that will not bring any new people to it. I guess this
group
cares little about getting new people
Give Mark Johnson a call, he's great at data recovery. And his prices are
fair.
503-858-8240
mark...@comcast.net
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Chaz Sliger c...@bctonline.com wrote:
Apologies for using an existing thread, but my posts are getting bounced...
I'm looking for a good disk
It's a website that will not bring any new people to it. I guess this group
cares little about getting new people to try Linux out. I don't use it. I've
got my own site to promote Linux.
When this group is ready to get new people to try Linux out. Let me know.
Dave
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:24
Just wanted to pass this latest blog entry on from Ken Starks:
http://www.linuxlock.blogspot.com/
Last October Ken flew here to help me with a Linux workshop in Beaverton. He
inspired me to do what I can here in Portland to get as many people as I can
to try Linux out and install Linux on their
Richard mentioned contacting a local public school to rent a classroom. I'll
give that a try.
Thanks,
Dave
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:
A friend and I are looking for a class room type space to video a series of
Linux lessons. Somewhere we can use a projector w/ laptop for presentations
and a white board to write on. A space that could be used on weekends if the
business is open M-F. It can be on the east side or west side of
Congratulations!
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote:
This afternoon I finished my first book on linguistics. Except for
proofreading, it is ready for press. It will be printed by Linguistics
Publishing, Inc. (which I own) to be ready for fall university
How about installing Debian 5 Lenny It is supposed to be very stable and
you can run all the cool things you like.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.comwrote:
Because they are just rebuilding and repackaging Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. Enterprises are
I had dist-upgrade problems with Ubuntu in the past. I only do clean
installs these days. The new Ubuntu 9.04 has been the smoothest install and
configuring I've had. I tried Kubuntu, and I still think KDE 4.2 needs work.
I'll happier with Gnome and Xfce.
John, do a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04
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