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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 4deck on November 10, 2010, 05:16:55 PM
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I just installed it today, and quite pleased with it. I used to administer Unix machines, so Pretty familiar with the operating system. Was also very impressed, that they even had support for my nvidia card. It also read my ntfs windows drive. Can mount it and pull over pics. Nice add ons too. This will be a new browser system, and web development rig. It dual boots fantastic. The front end is pretty slick for a gui interface. I was thinking of upgrading to 7 but this will work better for my needs. I'll still run xp till its no longer supported.
Anyway if you have a spare drive lying around, or can donate some space, Highly recommend Ubutu.
Cheers
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Have been using it for years. Its the least painful of all the Linuxes for me.
If you can live without MS Office (Open Office is OK as replacement for Word, but blows for spreadsheet / presentations and there's no realistic replacement for MS Project), and games aren't your thing, its worth a try.
Professionally, it makes a great development platform (other than for .Net obviously), but there's still a lot of niggles that might put off the non-technical home user, like limited itunes / ipod support etc. There's still too many occasions when you're typing sudo apt-get install for it to be really ready as an alternative to Windows or Mac for the consumer user.
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I installed it on one of my old laptops. It was pretty cool, fairly simple and good for basic stuff. It doesn't mess with my laptops volume keys real well though.
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I use kubuntu, ubuntu + kde. I have dual boot for this game.
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I have it, but must confess that it does not work completely. No sound, - does not seem to support my chipset. All installations of add-ons also seem to fail.
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Well I got it working as a make shift LAMP server, for development with Joomla. What a frigging pain in the arse, but all well now.
Kewl operating system if your into tinkering. :aok
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I've used it with BackTrack and AirCrack, but that's all I'm sayin' :D
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I've used it with BackTrack and AirCrack, but that's all I'm sayin' :D
Quick hide your WIFIs :D
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Quick hide your WIFIs :D
Hey Shuffler, what's your BSSID? :devil
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Currently run dual-boot Win 7, Ubuntu 9.10, going to re-format and run 10. The only reason I boot to Windows is to get email, AH (rarely lately), and a few legacy games. I could probably get some of them to run under Ubuntu, but I haven't bothered.
I'd go full Ubuntu on my laptop if I had a desktop to play AH, I can do anything I need with it, and I must confess I can browse almost any unscrupulous web site and be relatively safe ;)
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Anyone know if you can get Ubutu to support trackIR?
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Don't think they have a driver yet, but you could write em, and find out. Im looking for a descent DVD Player. Anyone familiar with any that actually play DVD's. I dont know if its a codec problem or wtf it is, but I can't play my dvds now, well on Ubuntu anyway.
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Don't think they have a driver yet, but you could write em, and find out. Im looking for a descent DVD Player. Anyone familiar with any that actually play DVD's. I dont know if its a codec problem or wtf it is, but I can't play my dvds now, well on Ubuntu anyway.
Try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
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Try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Also - you might need to install some libraries if (as is most likely) you are playing region encoded DVD's:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
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Yeah it was the libraries, they don't ship with the install. Had to load about 5 packages, and all is kewl now. I'm really digging this system. I don't have to put any more crap into Windows, and corrupt the registery, blow it away, and reload. I try a lot of packages for my needs, and this is just perfect. If you dable in web development, this is really a nice package to keep everything separated from your gaming rig. If you can get a hold of a 100 gig disk, which are fairly cheap now, I would definitely recommend this option. Not to mention the front end is so customisable I really dig it. There's also some nice hardware monitors too I've been playing with. This thing is screaming on my rig. Not even breaking a sweat. The only thing holding back is the internet connection I have, which is dsl.
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One other thing too about the lamp server. I tried that and it worked, but I deleted it, and am running it as a desktop edition, with LAMP installed manually. That took about 3 hours or getting it right, now its a breeze, I blew the old away, and reinstalled the same configuration, and printed a forum site out to get it done, step by step. Simplistic. Now.