Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity & gimp

2011-06-08 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 June 2011 15:57, gazz wrote: > > Ah, dunno, haven't actually looked at Gnome 3 yet . . . if it's as bad as > Unity - eeek! Unity is a /lot/ more like traditional GNOME 2 than GNOME 3 is. Put in the time to learn Unity. It is a pretty decent GUI, honestly. I don't understand why people are w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread suprengr
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:12 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 08/06/2011 16:24, Grant Sewell wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J Fernyhough wrote: > >> On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds wrote: > >>> My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local > >>> comput

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Sarah Chard
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:12 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for > ordinary > users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which > are > becoming more and more > Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the incompa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 08/06/2011 17:25, Matthew Daubney wrote: Problem with OOXML is that it has incompatibilities between versions of MS Office... if MS can't make compatibility with their own products work, other people have very little chance! Absolutely. Plenty of posts on the MS Answers forum from people who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 8 June 2011 17:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for ordinary > users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which are > becoming more and more > Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the incompatibilities of OOX

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 08/06/2011 16:24, Grant Sewell wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J Fernyhough wrote: On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds wrote: My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs. Just maddened

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Grant Sewell
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds wrote: >> My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local >> computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs. >> > > >> Just maddened me a bit because he was willin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Jim Price
On 08/06/11 10:39, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Are there any distributions that set up a lamp server out of the box something similar to this i guess http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lamppix but lamppix is no longer maintained it needs to be EASY TO SET UP as in for non linux experts i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:47 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > a FOSS alternative to cpanel is ISPConfig Erm not according to ISP hosting Providers they all want Cpanel but I understand that ISPConfig is improving. Ubuntu server is fantastic. If you use the last LTS 10.04.2 then you'll get a lamp s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread bodsda
I would recommend CentOS - it has an extremely simple web interface for configuration. Hth, Bodsda --Original Message-- From: Paul Sutton Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com To: Ubuntu-Uk ReplyTo: Ubuntu-Uk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS Sent: 8 Jun 2011 10:39 Hi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread J Fernyhough
On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds wrote: > My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local > computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs. > > Just maddened me a bit because he was willing to try free software... just > didn't have enough willingnes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Jacob Mansfield
a FOSS alternative to cpanel is ISPConfig Jacob Mansfield Programmer CyberKing Solutions™ www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk - I do know the database is down Air conditioned environment - do not open windows! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-w

[ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Jon Reynolds
My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs. He decided he was going to try OpenOffice, which I thought was great. I also pointed out Libre office to him. But unfortunately the outcome was that Ope

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 8 June 2011 10:39, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > Are there any distributions that set up a lamp server out of the box > something similar to this i guess > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lamppix > > but lamppix is no longer maintained > > it needs to be EASY TO SET UP as in for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Pope
On 8 June 2011 10:39, Paul Sutton wrote: > Are there any distributions that set up a lamp server out of the box > something similar to this i guess Uhm, Ubuntu? > i am sure the old red hat distributions had a screen that allowed users to > choose the type of system being installed so selecting w

[ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi Are there any distributions that set up a lamp server out of the box something similar to this i guess http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lamppix but lamppix is no longer maintained it needs to be EASY TO SET UP as in for non linux experts i can do stuff but prefer a menu or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

2011-06-08 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Silly me forgot the link! http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229187/30_days_withubuntu_linux.html 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux By Tony Bradley, PCWorld @TheTonyBradley On 6/8/11, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a change to Ubuntu > from

[ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

2011-06-08 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a change to Ubuntu from Windows7. Sadly he is finding loads of contradictory messages, rants about linux, rants about mint, rants about nvidia drivers... But a very interesting read. Linux foundation is retweeting every single blogpost. -- Andr