Ubuntu: Linux for humans
by So to learn some more Unix based things, and save myself some money from the X64 WinXP, I decided to try out a new Linux distro. I wanted something with AMD64 support.
I picked Ubuntu. Wow. The packages were so easy to install, everything went in great, I put KDE on, had firefox supporting everything I needed, looked great.
Sound was supported. Disc burning was supported. Network. Nvidia graphics card drivers. With a couple config file edits and some downloads it was painless. The installs automatically setup your shortcuts. I can even get some Windows games to play, almost just as good as Windows would run them natively. I find myself in Ubuntu more than windows now.
As for the noob, might want to try out Ubuntu. At least the LIVE CD they offer, you can boot up without installing (just like knoppix) and try out most of the base applications (office.org, firefox, media players)
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Thsi sounds like an African word.
oh, but it is
i'll just wait for my new windows vista. i'm glutton for gluttons
So i figured out why my install didnt work on my IBM R40... because there are no drivers for this particular model for the nic card or wireless... i gotta make my own or see if i can find someone else that already has it up...
ubuntu kicks butt. hmm. I want to share this directory, right click on it, click share, select share with windows computers (smb), ubuntu apt-gets smb in the background, meanwhile I enter the share name.
sweet.
that's sweet! all i know is schiano installed ubuntu yesterday and he immediately broke it.
i didnt break it, i just couldnt configure all my networking stuff... everything else looked hot!
how about KDE
apt-get kubuntu Boom
oh you want to start developing
apt-get kdevelop
brings over all needed libraries
even had project mono going
And I just installed the new release yesterday, 5.10, man it improved so much already!
yeah, that's what I'm using 5.10.
one thing I've got to figure out though, it seems to slow down a lot after being on for a while. even the system clock gets way out of sync, I set up ntp to update periodically, but there's an underlying problem there. maybe I need to do a re-install. I dunno.
I think I might try running some livecds to see if the problem is my machine or the ubuntu install.
it actually feels slower? is there a memory leak going on?
if it's just the clock that slows down, it could be your system clock. the ezabel server used to drift a few minutes every day. i think it might have been the BIOS battery going or something..
the whole system feels slow. I wish I had a way of benchmarking it to figure it out. the system monitor and ps don't show any high memory or cpu usage, but its definitely much much slower.
as for the clock, it gets slow by like 30 minutes or an hour over the course of a day if I don't have ntpupdate working. I think most os's only read the internal clock once at bootup.
you have the same problem with both KDE and GNOME?
so to use KDE: from synaptic, I just need to install kubuntu desktop? (and its required packages?)
phew... 152 new packages...
it will automatically setup everything needed, and it will add a session option to your login screen
yeah, same problem even using kubuntu. I kept the machine on all night and now its very slow. I'm shutting it down, and what should take about a minute is taking like 15 minutes+
I have no idea what's causing this. oh well.
Ah man that stinks! Must be some kind of bad driver, I don't know.
nah, I forgot to bring in/burn some. I did find some info on linux compatability with this machine. apparently its either a hyperthreading issue, a CPU heat issue or a opengl screensaver issue:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-September/msg02830.html
(although this guy installed fedora core 2, and he uses the word "crash") could be the same problem.
and searching other places says it could be a bios problem, so I'm going to update that first
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00142.html
the machine is an ibm thinkcentre 8187
turned out to be a bios problem. update bios, problem fixed
Ubuntu sounds like the name of an african child i'm sponsoring
i have a linux fish here at work
hey, SPEAKA ANY INGLESE?
is ubuntu Debian? I really like apt-get.
Yes. And they wrapped apt-get with synaptic front end, simple UI for packages. Plus they have the update manager like WIn Auto update, figuers out what patches you need.
cool. I like the idea of automatically adding shortcuts. maybe I'll give this one a shot.
Last time i tried Knoppix i used a torrent file, from iwz, and it dled a trojan on my machine and i had to reinstall windows... THANKS ian!
kidding, actually ian helped remove the virus from my machine...
yikes. www.knopper.net (official site) has a link to a torrent tracker. use that one.
haha, i pointed you to the knoppix site, and i have no idea how you downloaded a virus. chalk it up to being italian i guess!
wow dude... im gonna mess you up.