On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote:
On 20 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the
motivation was to
I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the
motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates.
Anton
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:34 +, Liam Proven wrote:
Do bear in mind that there are currently 2 flavours of Mint. It is
*possibly* on the threshold of a big change.
I had a play with it out of interest. Seemed Ok and
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the
motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates.
I really don't know. You may know better than I!
The rolling-updates thing
On 20 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the
motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates.
I really
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the forums,
hardly any one there! Worked well, hardware recognised (and I know what I
am doing!)
Fedora - didn't like it, could fry an egg on my trackpad!
Arch seems to be a good one, there always seems to be arch users on the
ubuntu forums.
On Jan 9, 2011 1:09 PM, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the
I tried Arch in a virtual machine a while ago, it is a little bit daunting,
I was just left with a command prompt, really cannot be bothered to build
everything from the ground up, tinkering yes, building no :)
Sabayon sounds interesting, may give it a whirl in a vm later in the week.
Steve
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On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 21:22 +, Steve Fisher wrote:
My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks
distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at
the competition:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the
forums, hardly
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 21:22 +, Steve Fisher wrote:
Have I missed any distro worth investigating?
Hmmm ... Puppy? Especially after the incident with the pooch.
Regards,Barry Drake
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...There IS a Better Way!
Brilliant! :)
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On 08/01/11 21:22, Steve Fisher wrote:
My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks
distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at
the competition:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the forums,
hardly any one there! Worked
On 8 January 2011 23:56, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 08/01/11 21:22, Steve Fisher wrote:
My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks
distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at
the competition:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Steve Fisher wrote:
My laptop is running hot
Machines generally need to be /doing/ something to run hot. Top cause
is normally some forgotten browser tab sat at a page containgin a
badly-coded flash menu or advert that is using 100% CPU.
Try running and 'top' and 'iotop'
Try Lubuntu ;)
lean, mean, keen and green in terms of keeping things cool. Afterall, we
cannot have the penguin melting the snow!!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Regards,
Phill.
On 8 January 2011 21:22, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com
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