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- badassninja, on 04/24/2008, -5/+124I have my spindle of 100 cds ready and I'm waiting for the torrent to post. No really I'm going to burn 100 and pass them out like hot cakes.
- Sammi84, on 04/24/2008, -3/+89It's beautiful. As a whole, the artwork in Hardy is a real improvement. Less chocolate and mud, more orange and color splendor.
Love the default background. The bird is beautiful. - weizbox, on 04/24/2008, -2/+79How long do people actually use these default Firefox pages? The first thing I've ever done whenever I install a new browser is set the default homepage.
- edwardmluk, on 04/24/2008, -1/+60The spirit of ubuntu is within you, young padawan.
- M0pper, on 04/24/2008, -2/+45In related news: Ubuntu 8.04 final just went live.
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ - CataKlysmiC, on 04/24/2008, -2/+43So... anyone else still up and waiting :)
- I fear the jet lags of tomorrow - bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -3/+40I'll stick with about:blank
- Jareth86, on 04/24/2008, -3/+38I'll stick with iGoogle.
- sloppychris, on 04/24/2008, -1/+30People's first impressions are important. Especially with a product like linux which has a perception of being difficult to use and nerdy.
- noob09, on 04/24/2008, -4/+26Give the guy a break... he's excited about the release, can't we all just forget small technicalities that e-ego inflating geeks love to point out and just be happy with this amazing OS?
- hockeyfighter09, on 04/24/2008, -2/+22Why are you here?
- badassninja, on 04/24/2008, -3/+22Wow.... I can't wait for the world to pass you by.
- shadoweva09, on 04/24/2008, -1/+19solution = bittorrent
- diggrim, on 04/24/2008, -0/+18Debian package manager, ftw!
- dbr_onix, on 04/24/2008, -0/+17In all fairness, WINE can be a pain to setup properly. If it's working nicely in 8.04 with no manual installing, that's great.
- Reziarfg, on 04/24/2008, -10/+26Ummm, WINE is independent of Ubuntu. Your applications would run just as well in any other Linux distro.
Just saying. - facade42, on 04/24/2008, -0/+16Actually I prefer this one. The simpler the better IMHO.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -10/+25I've been playing with RC all day, (I'm writing this from 8.04 right now) and its incredible. All my windows apps run natively in wine, they all seem to work fine, but the most amazing thing is most of my games run natively too, full screen! They do not seem to know they are not running in Windows at all.
Ubuntu, plain and simple is a windows replacement application. The fact that you can download the iso and run it like an application, thanks to Wubi, maintaining your windows partition in the process, makes it a very easy transition for any and all windows users. I cannot stress enough how much progress Ubuntu has made with version 8, its like linux has moved forward about 5 years in just the last 6 months. Incredible, I finally have a full windows replacement for all the machines in my house. - TylerM, on 04/24/2008, -0/+15OK, don't digg me down for an extremely Linux newbie question, it might help others. Can you run both KDE and GNOME without having two installations? I've googled it and got junk for answers.
- richman241, on 04/24/2008, -1/+16next one, new default theme.
- dg10050, on 04/24/2008, -2/+15apt-get install aptitude
- srg13, on 04/24/2008, -0/+12If you have enough disk space, you could probably have every window manager that runs on Linux installed at once.
- rubenporras, on 04/24/2008, -1/+13OK...I should know this, but can I install Ubuntu on a Mac with OSX? It is amazing how many people are so excited about this release!
- diggrim, on 04/24/2008, -0/+12I used to in netscape/mozilla...but firefox already defaults to a google homepage :D
- Ademan, on 04/24/2008, -0/+11yes, you can even run (parts) of the two at the same time (though i don't know why you'd want to). You could, for instance, run gnome-panel, gnome-keyring-manager, gnome-settings-manager, kwin, konsole all at once no problem. But again, dunno why you'd want to (unless you liked something about the combination, and if you did, more power to you, do what suits you, that's what all that flexibility is there for)
- icechen1, on 04/24/2008, -1/+12It's better than the one in Gusty.
- mashedup, on 04/24/2008, -1/+11TIP: Your only chance of getting back to the future is the clock tower.
- kazamx, on 04/24/2008, -0/+10takes too long to load :-p
- victimofkratina, on 04/24/2008, -0/+9sounds like you need a new burner.
- badassninja, on 04/24/2008, -1/+10Basically.
- noseeme, on 04/24/2008, -0/+9OH MY GOD!!! The music and movie companies told me that's illegal!!! Comcast is gonna arrest you and send you to jail!
- scarz99, on 04/24/2008, -7/+15Better than the FF one: http://www.google.com/firefox
- dbr_onix, on 04/24/2008, -0/+8Yes.
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop # or ubuntu-desktop if you installed Kubuntu originally.
Then in the login screen, click Options and you can select a window manager.
Window managers (KDE, Gnome etc) are basically just fancy applications, while you can only (easily) run one at a time, when they are not running, they don't break other window-managers or anything. - Gonasadude, on 04/24/2008, -1/+8Using release candidate already :)
- dbr_onix, on 04/24/2008, -3/+10Sure. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
Although to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't bother. OS X can run damn-near every Linux application, it has GCC, X11 and such (if you install the Developer Tools of the install DVD). That's one of the main reasons I like OS X so much - it's basically a very well designed, well though-out and unified interface with all the linux'y stuff included.
There's no harm in dual-booting, but I didn't see any point in ever using Ubuntu over OS X as a desktop machine.
The easiest way to play around with Ubuntu would be to get the LiveCD if it'll work (I don't see why it shouldn't), or use Parallels or VMWare (Use the 30-trial) and install Ubuntu in that. Then you don't have to worry about disc-partitioning, hardware compatibility and other fun things. The current beta of VMWare even have Coherence in Linux (although as I said, OS X can run nearly all ~Linux applications natively, so emulation isn't terribly useful) - JosephStalin, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7> OS X can run damn-near every Linux application, it has GCC, X11 and such
You know, a few years ago when I was looking for a laptop I kept hearing that on slashdot so I went and bought a PowerBook. Have you actually attempted to use "Linux" applications on OS X? The whole process is awful. Some stuff like Gimp, Inkscape, and Eclipse provide nice binary packages, but other stuff doesn't. It still feels awful, though, due to the really awful X11 implementation.
A few things I really can't get by without, for example, Quanta+, CSSED, and wdg-validator required building from source with Fink (the validator wasn't covered by Fink, I had to do it manually and port platform fixes from Debian and make many other changes to get it to compile). I had to keep fixing things that failed to compile and then when it was finally done, the performance was awful and even basic things didn't work right. If I wanted to compile from source I'd go back to Gentoo.
Other apps, for example OpenOffice, are even worse. The official versions have always been awful, while NeoOffice/J is unbelievably slow. I actually ended up breaking down and just buying MS Office to get something usable.
And yeah, I tried to find native alternatives for most of what I was lacking, but often they had half the features and cost money.
Something else I found very irritating on OS X is a lack of a decent media player. iTunes does nothing but piss me off and doesn't support OGG Vorbis. I personally like Exaile which has a minimalist, clean interface and a playlist oriented interface.
Another thing was I just wanted a decent text editor. Not anything overly complex, just something that supports multiple line encodings, tabs, code highlighting, indentation, etc. Ie, something like GEdit. About the only usable text editor I found for OS X that didn't cost money or was a crippled "free" version was jEdit.
What I ended up doing was dual booting it with Ubuntu. When Leopard was released I bought it, installed it on the PowerBook, and bought a Thinkpad. So now I use the Mac primarily for GarageBand, running my Line6 TonePort, occasional web browsing, etc and the Thinkpad running Ubuntu (and *only* Ubuntu) to get things done.
I tried running "Linux" apps again in Feb with MacPorts instead of Fink. Still nothing but problems. Fink pissed me off so much I put it in the "will never use again under any circumstance" category. Macports pissed me off quite a bunch, but I may give it another chance next year.
Don't get me wrong. I like OS X and it is a good system. I use it daily. But saying it runs "damn-near every Linux application" is a load of *****.
> or use Parallels or VMWare (Use the 30-trial)
Or use VirtualBox. It can make use of the virtualization capabilities of modern processors, does "seamless" desktop integration, and good snapshotting support, and is GPL'd. I've been using it under Ubuntu for a few months now and no longer use VMWare. "Personal Use" binaries are available for x86-based Macs, btw. - billbugger, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7about:mozilla
references the fall of netscape and rise if firefox
http://www.eeggs.com/items/43803.html - ileftfark, on 04/24/2008, -3/+10STOP SLOWING THE RELEASE, GUYS!
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7i know u would!
- dbr_onix, on 04/24/2008, -1/+8I keep the default Firefox start page, as I so rarely see it.
In Camino, I use a blank black page, by setting my homepage to:
data:text/html;base64,PGh0bWw+PGhlYWQ+PHN0eWxlPmJvZHl7YmFja2dyb3VuZDpibGFjazt9PC9zdHlsZT48L2hlYWQ+PC9odG1sPg==
(If you paranoid, it uses the data: URI, with the following HTML base64 encoded.
GAH, why does Digg's comment box still eat angle-brackets?! Basically it's a HTML/BODY tag, and a style with body{background:black}. Base64 decode the text (removing data:text/html;base64, ) if you want to check the HTML first..
I could just shove it in a .html and sav eit somewhere, but this works perfectly, is portable when I copy my Camino profile about, loads instantly etc. - ludwik, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Yeah, you can install it on a mac the same way you install Windows - on a separate partition (using BootCamp, or some other partitioning software, you can find more about that by searching for your mac on the http://help.ubuntu.com wiki) or using virtualization software (WMvare Fusion / Parallels).
- edwardmluk, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Another good place for advice is http://ubuntuforums.org/
- frontporsche, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7why not?
- Gambra, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6Running 8.04 on my laptop right now. Pretty nifty alright. Now to see if Wireless works :)
- Aitese, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6SO...which wireless card do you use and are you claiming you just plugged it into your Windows box and it worked? Or are you saying you installed the drivers from a download or CD? My Belkin wireless adapter worked when I plugged it in...in Windows it didn't. My Freecom TV card worked when I just plugged it in...in Windows it didn't.
- neko, on 04/24/2008, -2/+8What about Windows XP's Fisher-Price look? The brown shades remind me of coffee and chocolate, and who doesn't like those?
- MWeather, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6That not necessary. It's already installed.
- Eezyville, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6Spread the seed! Your children will be numerous!
- TnTBass, on 04/24/2008, -2/+8I use it for my IE. Really, its the only page IE renders properly.
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