snazzy. linux is finally looking like a more friendly os for casual desktop use (in my opinion anyway. I know people have loved it for that use for years)
post by sxealex nli at Jul 14,2007 12:20pm
i didnt have to type a single command this was all point and click set up
synaptic package manager type beryl click all the boxes except the debg stuff... then u can add it as a start up item. i dunno maybe i had to add a repository but i dont remember doing it.
I'm running 7.04 now. it you are used to redhat, suse, or any of the others that people use, things are in different places. ubuntu is debian based like knoppix.
Oh I don't mean the use of the command line... I mean that generally the default setup of the GUIs with most distros is boring.
Is this KDE or Gnome?
its gnome. i had an almost identical set up on kde... but as u know gnome is like 1/2 as much of a system hog. The window manager is independent of the desktop environment im pretty sure u can use anything i think maybe. my friend was using enlightenment i dunno if beryl will work with that ill hav eto find out.
I'm running 7.04 now. it you are used to redhat, suse, or any of the others that people use, things are in different places. ubuntu is debian based like knoppix.
i used fedora core 6 for like a month... so im not really too used to how it was. ubuntu looks like it will be better for me.
synaptic package manager type beryl click all the boxes except the debg stuff... then u can add it as a start up item. i dunno maybe i had to add a repository but i dont remember doing it.
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no, you posted instructions on how to install it. i've installed it. the beryl package is 100% installed. now how do i do it?
this of it as, I bought the car and the fuzzy dice. the car (adorned with fuzzy dice) is sitting in my yard. it's all insured and everything, but I have no clue how to drive it.
please find me a monitor that will be where ever I happen to be with my laptop at any given time. Seems to me that carrying around another monitor along with my laptop would be a pain. too bad there isn't some sort of magical way that I could view what my non-mobile linux box has on it's screen over some sort of magical wires-free method. you know what, they could just make a window on my laptop that I could see that on. now that would be cool!
so im like 99.9% ready to install ubuntu... i was reading it cant detect my motorola wireless card unless i get the .inf and .sys file and ndiswrapper and even then there might be little issues with network being dropped after wake up or something... i kinda dont want to spend money on a wicked long ethernet cable but i want to install the OS now. i also suppose i can save the inf and sys file as ell as the tar for ndiswrapper to a USB flash memory stick or something and transfer it that way... but if that doesnt work i have no way to check the net to fix it after that... gayyyyyy
everyone is all like we should use the same hd for a dual boot... i wonder why they dont just make a cable switch for these situations? 2 hds would be better cuz then u can seperate them in the future.
not practical. just install it on 2 different hard drives and use grub.
A hard drive switch would cause the HUGE problem of it being switch while the machine is running. Have you ever hot-swapped IDE? worst thing to do ever (unless you have a hot-swap case)
there could just be a circut that wouldnt allow it to be hotswapped. grub is great and all but its so fucking buggy. and the language isnt clear. so when it wont configure itself ur fucked.
well... im making the absolute FINAL preparations needed to back up whatever i need to do to make the leap. i even have an xp pro cd waiting incase i cant hack it and need to go back to "the darkside". a dual boot would be great, but i kinda dont want to do it on a single HD. i DO have another HD i could possibly use, but how would i work it switching between the two?
did you set up grub when you installed it? it should ask you questions when it boots. I hope it's not gay like RH used to be with the whole "first 2.1GB"
it didnt ask me anything when i installed it. other than which drive i want to install ubuntu to... does it make a difference that my 80 gig drive is an older "ribbon connector" style and the 200 gig one is a newer smaller connector style? also the 80 gig is set as slave other wise my cd drive wouldnt get recognized at all
ide i'm assuming is the older style that isnt really used anymore... well... since my whole comp is gutted i guess if i want to use linux i can just unplug the sata drive *shrug*... it's kinda what i wanted to avoid doing (manually switching between the two) but whatever... i'll figure something else out eventually...
no one pays attention to bootloaders cuz programmers get it working then never have to see it again. so they don't work on it since it doesn't bug them
well i cant get ndiswrapper to install. i burned the tar to a disc along with the wireless card driver i need and extracted the tar through the gui, then i go into a terminal and change to the directory and do "make install" and it seems like it starting to work then it says "permission denied". i try to log into the root and there is no root command. i try "sudo" and what not... but no dice. i read that the install cd has ndiswrapper on it but when i search the packages, it isnt there. and sudo apt-cdrom add doesnt seem to be working like they said it would on the ubuntu forums.
i have a motorola wpci810g or whatever... i need ndiswrapper... i installed the 3 necessary packages for it, did ndiswrapper -i ~/driver/bcwml5.inf (or whatever) to install the driver then did ndiswrapper -l and it said "driver invalid!"... so... yeah... im pretty fucked. i need to acquire an ethernet cable thats about 50 ft to access the net on linux... but im broke. i mean... i have a ton of cables, but the range from 6-25 feet and wont reach.
although i think i just remembered something i read about the default wireless driver thats installed with linux possibly getting in the wa of ndiswrapper working... man im so stupid... let me check and see if thats the problem.
did everything i could... i even tried different driver sets that correspond with the ID number of the card... no dice. just gonna have to use a wired connection for now
well... i found a not so pain in the ass way to have a wired connection so since this is my desktop... i dont NEED wireless ubuntu is fucking awesome by the way... its actually WAY less of a pain than fedora core was.
i have the cube... (it has 5 sides) i just dont use the extra workspaces and you've already shown how that works. i also havent gotten around to editting the bg and the top/bottom part of the cube yet.
so i decided to stop using Ubuntu for a bit to see if i really would miss it and i did so im using it again. im about to make my "permanent" switch to linux soon. im loading up cedega, transporting the rest of my music and games, and getting the ability to extract rars... although what i MIGHT do. is make the smaller HD xp and the big one Linux. do a switcheroo with them. but then i would have to reinstall everything and that might be too much for my lazy ass right now.
ubuntu is fucking awesome by the way... its actually WAY less of a pain than fedora core was. 