[wellylug] Ubuntu
Ian Sterling
xyverz at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 10:17:55 NZDT 2004
I've put Ubuntu on my spare workstation. I'm *extremely* surprised at
how bloody snappy the GNOME 2.8 desktop is in this distro. If my main
box wasn't so entrenched in Gentoo, I'd consider switching... Well, to
a point, anyway. Ubuntu's still only providing Fluxbox 1.14. *sigh*
But I'm rather certain I'm gonna put it on my next x86 laptop. (My
current 200mhz Thinkpad won't do GNOME too well...)
KDE support certainly IS available for Ubuntu. It's not the default,
but it's there. There's a line in the sources.list file you need to
uncomment in order to be able to grab it, but it's certainly there. I
haven't installed it yet though. (And I'm normally a kde kinda
guy...)
--Ian...
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:11:40 +1300, Leo <pizbit at neko.net.nz> wrote:
> Try now or the next version? I read a review which mentioned several
> things(that I've now forgotten.) that'll be fixed -up/fully-developed in
> the next release.
> Also heard kde support just isn't there, do you know anything about
> installing the kde libs anyway to run kde apps with? And what'll happen
> if/when kde support is added in?
>
> Having said that I havn't heard anything overly negative about it, just
> that most of the polish is expected in the next version.
>
>
>
> Bill Christiansen wrote:
>
> >Ubuntu now running great on my laptop after overcoming a couple of ACPI
> >hurdles. With other distros I didn't use ACPI as it wouldn't load so I
> >used apm instead but with Ubuntu this caused a weird problem where the
> >system would drastically slow down after running for a while (I think
> >the cpu cooling wasn't working properly and was forcing it into a safety
> >go-slow mode). I solved this by downloading a bios update from Toshiba
> >which made it possible to load the ACPI, this however caused a conflict
> >with my lucent winmodem that would make the system lock-up when I tried
> >to use dialout, but this was also easily fixed by adding a pci=noacpi in
> >my boot loader. Having got these issues out of the way it's running
> >superbly, performance is good even on a P2 400MHz. Hotplugging and
> >auto-mounting work great out of the box for usb keys and digital cameras
> >- no setup required and has access to thousands of deb packages. I can
> >highly recommend this one for people to try.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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