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- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31If Stallman ever went to heaven, he'd be cursing God for running a proprietary afterlife.
- eje211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Richard Stallman is a good example of how a horrible, hateful, mean and angry man can be a good guy. He's a bit like Cox in Scrubs or House in House. Just because everything about him is unpleasant never gets in the way of him being a good guy in the end. There's a romantic aspect to that.
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"A desktop with two taskbars is idiotic."
You can remove one..........
Then there's only one taskbar............
Then it's not idiotic..........
Problem solved! - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"easiest GUI based OS"
Good thing you qualified that statement with GUI-Based... Because nothing can top DOS 6.22 for ease of use or sex appeal. - strabes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It doesn't. Where did you get that info? Linux systems can be left running for months without needing a reboot. There's a reason why linux dominates the server market.
- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@Urusai
Yeah, but then Linus would forgive him :) - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Kleandisk in KDE does something similar, but not quite the same, taking a series of step to clean up and make some more vacant space available.
Dugg for putting "Ubuntu GNU/Linux" in the headline (the cited article does not do this). - N3M3515, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Just started using Ubuntu, overall it was the easiest GUI based OS I have ever installed in my 15+ years of computing. Hats off to the developers.
- digid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I recently went to see Richard Stallman speak and he slammed Ubuntu because it installs non-free software on your machine. He was pissed that the hosting school was giving out Ubuntu installation CDs. So calling it Ubuntu GNU/Linux is only doing a favor to an Ubuntu hater.
- Zaggynl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Because windows === waste.
-/silly-
windows, linux or mac, you still gotta clean up yer disk. - jon314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8How about calling it
Ubuntu Gnu/Linux/X.org/Debian/Apache/.../Mozilla/.../GuyWhoWroteThe"rm"ManPage ?
Cause that would be sweet. - InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actually it does, it is the page name.
- Shirokun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You don't even have to defrag your hardisk.
Also Apt-get and aptitude manage and handle automatically all installed packages. (Btw, I'd suggest you to use aptitude instead of apt-get. It's the same usage, just replace aptitude by apt-get, but it handles everything better.
Now please don't remind me how many times my friends called me: "My winduws is too slow. Please clean it up" - 13thfloor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've got some cleaning to do myself. If it wasn't for procrastination, I might never have found this...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Stallman is almost a hypocrite. I went to see him once at a lecture too. Someone asked him what he was running on his lap top. He replied Debian. Someone asked him if he was using the GNU HERD kernel. He seemed annoyed, like he was asked this before. He replied "No......it doesn't do everything I need it to do".
To be fair, everything on his lap top might have been free(dom) software, but his reason for not using HERD is our reason for using non-free stuff on Ubuntu. - MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Gotta love those pretty gcc screensavers.
- TheSeeker11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've found DBAN does wonders.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I just killed 7 months of old kernels.
- Shirokun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4First: You can completely personalize the aspect and looks of the O.S. Everything you want.
Second: Brown is the color of ubuntu, and the first time I saw the GUI and the colors I found them nice and warm. Then afterwards I started changing everything. - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tell me about it, I was at 98% disk usage when I left home this morning. : /
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, not quite. With windows you have to scandisk, defrag and clean up old unneeded files.
ext3 helps by not really ever needing the first 2, so it's just up to you to clean up old *****. - jasmin888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just have to agree
I did an install some 4 weeks ago - just for testing (been with windows since 3.1). It is now my main os (still have to use xp for some work related stuff). Ubuntu is easier and more comprehensible than xp. And my machine runs a lot faster. - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He he he. The article is nice, but it tells me to *install* more stuff than I would end up cleaning!
- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5FTA:
1. Burn Gentoo LiveCD
2. Boot.
3. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
4. cd /mnt/gentoo ; tar -jxvf /mnt/cdrom/stage3.tar.bz2
5. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
6. env-update ; source/etc/profile
7. emerge --sync
8. emerge -e system
Okay okay, just a little joke, have a sense of humor :) - Chandon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you don't like two toolbars (I know I don't), just turn one of them off. It's not hard. I personally kill the bottom toolbar and add a window list applet (aka "taskbar") to the top toolbar.
If that's too hard for you, you have two other really good options: 1.) Live with it. 2.) Use Kubuntu. - mroo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@mtekk: I call BS.
It should be called GNU because most of the software in the OS, and most of the work has been done by LOTS OF PEOPLE under the banner of GNU over years. It is called GNU / Linux because it differentiates between the linux kernel vs the Herd kernel. Linux it's self is under the GNU banner.
GNU software still to this day makes up 90% of the software in linux, and most of the GNU tools are used and installed on commercial unix.
Ubuntu is nothing more than a repackaged debian, and is not an Operating System in it's self, just another flavour.
I use Ubuntu, Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, CentOS: they are all distributions/flavours of GNU / Linux running the same operating system GNU with a Linux kernel or GNU / Linux.
Give Credit where Credit is due. 30 years of effort by all the people involved with GNU is worth that credit ( Linux included ) - bit2bit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This really works. Thx! Very nice tips. Viva Ubuntu!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A while back someone at Debian made a program called "virtual RMS". It will output a list of all non-free software on your system. At the time I heard of it "virtual RMS" was in the "unstable" branch.
Ahem! - jasmin888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I see no reason you absolutely should.
I see no reason anyone should use linux unless they see a need for it - or they just find it easier, more convenient and fun or productive.
The good thing is that you can test with a live CD and decide whether it is worth the hassle.
A lot of people find whatever is on their pc passable and basically don't ask questions.
Some have stumbled upon linux and found it a pleasant experience - now they want to tell others about it. Windows people (like myself) have some difficulty believing that computers can actually be stable (I must say that w2k has been pretty fast and stable). - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@levi
No, the office toolbar does not count. - Shirokun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice tips! Thanks!
- Chandon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know about that. I've customized a lot about my Ubuntu desktops, but the default color scheme is fine.
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, but they are just easier ways of doing the cleaning.
You don't HAVE to install them to get the same effect. They just make it easer. - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3i was going to post something similar. hah!
but seriously, these bloated distros can get away from you quickly..
btw, you'll want a stage1, not stage3 ;) - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Haha. Everyone hates the brown, users, non-users, everyone. Almost everyone changes to a new theme and wallpaper the second their installation is finished.
- dAbReAkA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ulite? ;)
- davidpack01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sudo apt-get install blubuntu-look
- pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice article thanks.
Also have a look at FSlint:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
It is a toolkit to find various cruft on the filesystem such as
unused packages, duplicate files, etc. - antix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The best, simplest suggestion seems to be the one in the comments:
sudo apt-get install upgrade-system localepurge
sudo upgrade-system - mtekk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@mroo:
You are preaching to the choir. I don't need the entire GNU/Linux GNU/HURD naming nomenclature explained to me, I already know and believe that the GNU project deserved credit for their work. The fact that according to Richard Stallman Ubuntu includes GPL incompatible code, would mean that Ubuntu is distributed as a non-GNU system containing GNU code. Ubuntu by including GPL incompatible code really mucks up the legal standing of their distribution, and the best thing they could do is stop including those packages, and then they can call it GNU/Linux. If the user includes the packages themselves that's fine, but when the GPL incompatible code is compulsory for the distribution then there is a problem. GNU is about free (and open) alternates to proprietary code/software, what Ubuntu is doing effectively undermines this idea, and thus doesn't deserve the GNU tag. - jon314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"If we tried to measure the GNU Project's contribution in this way, what would we conclude? One CD-ROM vendor found that in their “Linux distribution”, GNU software was the largest single contingent, around 28% of the total source code, and this included some of the essential major components without which there could be no system."
That's from http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html . Certainly not 90%. Besides, GNU sounds stupid. I mean seriously. Saying GNU in public takes a lot of courage and the willingness to deprive oneself from anything remotely resembling sexual contact with a female for the rest of your life.
I love the FSF and I love the GNU tools but I'll stick to calling it Linux, thank you very much. And I do give full credit to GNU for everything they've done. - sanguinemoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting. I want see a chart comparing the percentage of homosexuals using Ubuntu verses other OSs and Linux distros.
- mtekk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"...Richard Stallman speak and he slammed Ubuntu because it installs non-free software on your machine..."
Well then it'd be improper to call Ubuntu a GNU/Linux system, as GNU implies that the default distribution only contains free software. In which case Ubuntu should be referred to just as Ubuntu. - amiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0excuse me, i was wrong... mistakes happen. (nevermind the research proposition!) and i'm sorry for abusing the ubuntu distro ambiguously.
- mumblyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"So calling it Ubuntu GNU/Linux is only doing a favor to an Ubuntu hater."
No, calling it Ubuntu GNU/Linux is fulfilling Stallman's previous demand. Richard wants to have his cake and eat it too. - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"How to clean a Ubuntu Install"... err... start with another distro, use Gnome, and install a Ubuntu art package?
- levi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"A desktop with two taskbars is idiotic."
Vista and OS X both have 2 toolbars. Almost every version of windows has had 2 toolbars Windows taskbar plus Office/Works since 95. - oxandrolone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0http://www.duggmirror.com
- jasmin888, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2[digg down]
- amiak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0something about the ubuntu distro is gay but that doesn't stop it from being "better" than vista
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