I have just tried kubuntu 8.10 Live CD for the first time and I am
deeply troubled by what I find.
I have had difficulty trying to run it, and when I have found a
machine and a way to run it, I find I am then totally confused.
This is all bad news for advocacy activities - I am an energetic
2008/11/8 alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have just tried kubuntu 8.10 Live CD for the first time and I am
deeply troubled by what I find.
I just booted Kubuntu 8.10 on my Dell XPS laptop and it seemed quite
nice. I'm no fan of KDE but I can see how it might appeal to someone
looking at XP or
On 08/11/2008, Bruce Beardall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we're to advocate Linux [and as far as this list is concerned, Ubuntu]
should we be concentrating our advocacy on the LTS release? It's all too
easy for anyone on this list to get carried away with the latest and
greatest but the vast
I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't
really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4
but I think this leads to an interesting question:
If we're to advocate Linux [and as far as this list is concerned, Ubuntu]
should we be
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote:
I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't
really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4
but I think this leads to an interesting question:
If we're to advocate Linux
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:19 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
Does anyone know if any of the open source programs like winff can
decode from Sony's .oma format.
To those who dont know Sony's sonicstage wraps mp3 files in .oma and
then puts it on the player.
I dont have access to a windows pc
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:06 +, Farran wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 22:39 +, Jason Liquorish wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
hi all
just upgraded, now basic video formats like .avi won't play :( help
please :)
thanks
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Farran Lee
Bruce Beardall wrote:
I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I
can't really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory
glance at KDE 4 but I think this leads to an interesting question:
If we're to advocate Linux [and as far as this list is concerned,
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:14:37PM +, Farran wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:19 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
Does anyone know if any of the open source programs like winff can
decode from Sony's .oma format.
To those who dont know Sony's sonicstage wraps mp3 files in .oma and
then
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 16:47, gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:14:37PM +, Farran wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:19 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
Does anyone know if any of the open source programs like winff can
decode from Sony's .oma format.
To those who dont
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:19:54 Javad Ayaz wrote:
Does anyone know if any of the open source programs like winff can decode
from Sony's .oma format.
To those who dont know Sony's sonicstage wraps mp3 files in .oma and then
puts it on the player.
I dont have access to a windows pc
gav wrote:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote:
I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't
really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4
but I think this leads to an interesting question:
If we're to
Sean Miller wrote:
We now seem to have a relatively stable system for him, but I've told
him to leave NVDIA graphics out for the time being. That REALLY
screws everything.
Ahh so I'm not the only one to think this then?
When I upgrade I'll be most probably going back to an ATI X300 video
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just realised, it's not all fine
several things uninstalled themselves when i moved my pc back to my
internetless room - nvidia driver, totem-gstreamer and several of it's
plugins, and a few other things Which is all well
That could be right, Alan... I'm not sure what my friend has done
exactly, but what's happened is that on bootup nvidia fails to load
and if we select the restricted driver the machine won't boot... it
won't even go into x at all. We then have to do a dpkg-reconfigure to
reset the graphics to the
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/8 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sean Miller wrote:
We now seem to have a relatively stable system for him, but I've told
him to leave NVDIA graphics out for the time being. That REALLY
screws everything.
I've spent the day trying to help a potter with his Kubuntu 8.10 woes.
Great laugh on a Saturday!
We now seem to have a relatively stable system for him, but I've told
him to leave NVDIA graphics out for the time being. That REALLY
screws everything.
Sean
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On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:55:46PM +, Paul Sutton wrote:
I thought this was a matter of course for most operating systems, wait
a while, see if there any major issues then upgrade, of course if
everyone did that we would not identify issues, perhaps also as
advocates we should install
Lucy wrote:
[...]
I've also had problems with the latest Ubuntu and I think
some of the problems he's experienced could also affect Ubuntu too.
Oddly enough though I'm quite keen to try out KDE again, to see how I
feel with it's latest changes.
Newbie nightmares aside, the new kubuntu - (kde
gav wrote:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote:
I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't
really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4
but I think this leads to an interesting question:
If we're to
Alan Pope wrote:
2008/11/8 alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have just tried kubuntu 8.10 Live CD for the first time and I am
deeply troubled by what I find.
I just booted Kubuntu 8.10 on my Dell XPS laptop and it seemed quite
nice. I'm no fan of KDE but I can see how it might appeal to someone
2008/11/8 alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It seems that some problems are associated with xorg and its (now)
lack of visible configuration. I could usually stumble in the right
direction when xorg.conf was meaningful, even using vi, but I am
quite lost in the current situations, with the minimal
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