O/T - Geeks only, Ubuntu

[bhaexpress]

Yes stated in my post above, it works just fine for what I want, it does not handle the new Office 2007 file formats yet though.

Not a huge obstacle though.

 

[CheeseRolls]

I have a couple of Ubuntu laptops at home, which my kids use for everything including homework in openoffice. New releases come out every 6 months and all software is free. If you put the installation on a USB drive and boot from it, you can try it out without installing. A few pointers below;

1 If you just want a computer that works, Ubuntu will work just fine, as long as someone a little tech savvy sets things up for you in the first place. Otherwise prepare to read, listen and learn.

2 The default installation excludes a lot of useful stuff that is free, but has proprietary or restricted usage restrictions. These are simple enough to include, you just need to grab the restricted extras.

3 Here is a guide my-guides.net - Ubuntu 9.04 Post Installation Guide that shows you how to do this, plus install pretty much most of the PC replacement software you could need. (unless you are a PC game freak)

 

[Garage_Doors]

Ignore.

 

[Evil Edna]

Check out the cool shit you can do with it. You can customize everything.

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Been using it for a few years now. It should be on every rig

 

[Husty]

Been using Ubuntu on my laptop for ages, runs great, didnt have any sound for a while but it wasn't too hard to fix, highly recommended if your mildly computer savy.

 

[auschr]

Make sure to use WINE, or better yet, install windows.

 

[Evil Edna]

Make sure to use WINE, or better yet, install windows.

 

[8ace]

Over the next few days I'll be looking around for Windows software that I can run on it. Does seem to be faster though.

I'd be interested to know if you can get iTunes running, thru WINE or otherwise.

 

[bhaexpress]

I'd be interested to know if you can get iTunes running, thru WINE or otherwise.

Don't hold your breath ! I don't like Itunes and don't use it or any other Apple product.

 

[8ace]

Don't hold your breath ! I don't like Itunes and don't use it or any other Apple product.

Fair enough - I only use it for updating the iPhone firmware anyway.

 

[Porky]

Can a mod please move this thread to the 'Foreign Language' section.

What he said.

 

[Billy the Fish]

I bought a Ubuntu installation disk about 6 months ago but it won't install on my PC - and I've tried about 10 times.

Find the person who sold it to you and poke them in the eye. It's a free download.

It is quite a good OS, I've got it on an old PC that I don't use very much, but can't get away with having it on the day to day machine as it would confuse my bird too much.

 

[bhaexpress]

What he said.

Can we have both posts moved to the 'Attention Seeking Saddo' Forum please.

 

[Evil Edna]

I'd be interested to know if you can get iTunes running, thru WINE or otherwise.

I did try it on wine but never had any luck with trying to get it to work. It slowed down my puter a lot. But did load etc. I've gooled it and a lot of people out there cant get it to work.

Wine does update a lot so it might work now? I've given up on itunes now and just use a mp3 player problem solved

 

[Garage_Doors]

Initial thoughts on Ubunto,
Seems difficult to navigate or find answers to problems.
Firstly even though i formatted a partition to install it on, it ignored it and installed in on the same partition as windows and subsequently when it find updates it can’t install them as it says insufficient disk space to install them even though there a 80 gig partition to use.
Also it appear there is no way to move the installation onto the empty partition nor uninstall Ununto to manually move it.

So pretty unimpressed,
Also I have to manually enter the Wifi 26 digit key every time I boot it, is there no way to store this information like you can on Windows ?

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

I bought a Dell Mini 9 as a hackintosh project, but I expanded it by adding extra OS's.

It now runs Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8), Windows 7 (RC) and Ubuntu 9.04 NBR (NetBook Remix) using the Chameleon bootloader for triple booting. It took me a few attempts (and quite a bit of frustration) to get everything up and running correctly, but now all three OS's run without a hitch and makes my life easier being able to do different tasks on just one machine.

 

[adrian29uk]

Initial thoughts on Ubunto,
Seems difficult to navigate or find answers to problems.
Firstly even though i formatted a partition to install it on, it ignored it and installed in on the same partition as windows and subsequently when it find updates it can’t install them as it says insufficient disk space to install them even though there a 80 gig partition to use.
Also it appear there is no way to move the installation onto the empty partition nor uninstall Ununto to manually move it.

So pretty unimpressed,
Also I have to manually enter the Wifi 26 digit key every time I boot it, is there no way to store this information like you can on Windows ?

For help goto the Ubuntu Forums
You need to be patient and be prepared to cross some hurdles to get stuff working. I had all my problems solved through the Ubuntu forums.

 

[Simster]

Find the person who sold it to you and poke them in the eye. It's a free download.

It is quite a good OS, I've got it on an old PC that I don't use very much, but can't get away with having it on the day to day machine as it would confuse my bird too much.

It's a free download, but I wanted a disk. I bought it from the official ubuntu site for about 4 quid so I can't say I feel ripped off!

 

[Garage_Doors]

For help goto the Ubuntu Forums
You need to be patient and be prepared to cross some hurdles to get stuff working. I had all my problems solved through the Ubuntu forums.

Thanks, have put a post on there.See what come back.