Linux Ubuntu

[rave]

szouljahboii312, the most painless way to explore is to use VirtualBox and run "virtual machines" from within Windows.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

You don't really need any seminars for this. Just download the ISO and install on a virtual machine. Whatever knowledge you have about how to install Windows will carry over, more or less.

You'll probably go through a stage of "distro hopping" where you try all sorts of distros, but eventually you should be able to decide which "brand" works for you.

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Has anyone installed Ubuntu 11.04 yet? Any thoughts on choosing this over 10.04 LTS for a home server?

[JazonEsti]

Ubuntu 11.04 with compiz crashes my PC. that's not acceptable.

i'll wait for the mint or pinguy derivative.

[szouljahboii312]

rave, hey thanks! I'll try this one

I still remember when my professor in IT fundamentals who had shown us his laptop with two O.S. It looks great specially the one with 3-D effects home screen.. I wonder if what kind of O.S. was that..

but the problem is that installing two O.S. will slow down the system specially when opening applications in either of the 2 O.S.

[JazonEsti]

3-D effects home screen..

Perhaps that's linux with compiz?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4wB3GUemVw

[rave]

Ubuntu 11.04 with compiz crashes my PC.

My own experience was relatively better, but for some reason Natty refuses to install on a GPT disk. Lucid on the other hand installs with no problem.

Oh well, I guess I'll just stick to tried-and-tested Lucid until the next LTS. Good thing Ubuntu has backports and PPAs.

And I guess I have to mention it now: In case you guys didn't know, Canonical provides device driver backports for LTS releases. Just look for "lucid backport" in Synaptic. So you don't really have to upgrade to more recent distros/kernels if all you want is to have support for one or two new devices.

[JazonEsti]

And I guess I have to mention it now: In case you guys didn't know, Canonical provides device driver backports for LTS releases. Just look for "lucid backport" in Synaptic. So you don't really have to upgrade to more recent distros/kernels if all you want is to have support for one or two new devices.

I don't know what that is for.

I'm currently using Kubuntu 11.04. Good enough, refreshing after years of using GNOME, but the annoying thing is that since it boots faster than my modem can connect, Knetwork manager doesn't automatically connect nor can i find a way to manually connect it.

I have to wait for the modem to be connected before i boot my PC.

[rave]

Backports are useful when you don't want to upgrade from Lucid but want some of the new stuff in the later releases. A good example of when you want this is when you're building a server with new hardware. A server would typically need the guarantee of stability and long term support of Lucid, but there are times when some of the newer hardware components are supported only by Maverick or Natty.

In this case, you can definitely keep Lucid and install either backported drivers, or a backported kernel. Doing this would localize your stability risk only to the stuff that was backported.

I'm personally sticking with Lucid for all my Linux needs right now since I can't be bothered to re-learn the features and quirks of new versions every 6 months. By sticking to LTS, I'd only need to refresh my installs every 2 years, which is reasonable.

[shotokan]

i have experienced using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS on dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu). that was last year when i have updated my ubuntu and suddenly crashed (freezed) and could no longer boot from it (ubuntu). so i decided to remove it from my laptop and just use Win7 as my OS.

[JazonEsti]

Pinguy OS Mini Review

By me.

It's certainly better in terms of stability than plain Ubuntu 11.04.

[LeonardJamesFrey]

ok ang ubuntu sa totoo lang. ang bilis niya.

nung una windows 7 lang OS ko. nabibilisan nako sobra. at ang ganda na ng windows 7 talaga wala akong masabi. mabilis gamitin, ang bilis maghanap ng files. napaka efficient.

pero nung nagamit ko na ubuntu grabe ang bilis pa niya. malaki pa difference. sa windows 7 ayokong gumagamit ng firefox kahit mas madaming features yun dahil ang bagal mag load kumpara sa IE9.

pero sa ubuntu ang bilis ng firefox nila, mas mabilis pa magload yata sa IE9. so sa ubuntu na talaga ko.

for one month yata ubuntu lang naka install sa laptop ko, walang windows. ok naman, hindi ako naghanap ng kung ano sa windows.


pain in the @ss nga lang pag may bago kang software na ininstall sa ubuntu na buggy pa. kailangan mo talagang magresearch para lang mapagana. saka sa hardware na din pag may hindi gumagana irresearch mo talaga, mabbwisit ka. yun alng ang downside ng linux sakin.

[daBayrus]

for laptops with both integrated and discrete gpus, can ubuntu use both? i installed the nvidia drivers and got unity-2d instead.. or switch to win7?

[lytblu]

do you guys know how to update pidgin on trisquel 5.0?

[subsonicsky]

^ You might be able to use this: https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa/

[duriancoffee]

The latest Long Term Support version of Ubuntu has just been released for the public!



Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (codenamed "Precise Pangolin") was released just yesterday (April 26, 2012). 12.04 doesn't have much new things, but this version's got the new "Head-Up Display" or HUD, a predictive command feature that's toggled on and off by tapping the left-hand Alt key. Commands can be selected by moving the highlight with the arrow keys and executed by pressing the Enter key, or directly executed by mouse-clicking a choice.

I'll download and upgrade my existing installation later next month. Seems exciting!

[subsonicsky]

Kumusta 12.04? Any major bugs?

[lytblu]

how can i download songs for my exaile music player? sorry, it's my first time using linux so medyo nalilito pa ako.

[kreuk]

i opted for linux mint since daming problems sa ubuntu installations of all sorts of versions on my brother's netbook. it installed smoothly naman and uses only 2gb of space.

[duriancoffee]

Kumusta 12.04? Any major bugs?

Nothing really new naman. Surprising for an LTS version na wala masyadong major changes to their Unity interface, which I think still needs of getting used to, except for the "Heads-up display" na pwedeng pamalit sa menu bar in the future.

I still found it a bit slow on my 6 year old laptop esp. when loading big programs like GIMP and LibreOffice, pero hindi na ganun kabagal mag-startup and shutdown compared to 11.10. I still found it hard though to hibernate especially if you loaded lots of programs dahil maraming nasasayang na memory.

My reactions quite mixed for this release. Nothing so new, but still looking good.

I'm more excited for 12.10 (codename Quantal Quetzal) kasi we should expect bigger changes daw, according kay Mark Shuttleworth.

[thinwhitestripes]

Just updated to 12.04 this morning. Ang bagal nung download. Madami pa atang nag-uupdate. Haha.

First impressions, ok naman. Wala naman masyadong bago. Pero gumanda naman performance niya.

Naweirdohan lang ako sa chromium and flash. Pagkaalala ko kasi sa 11.10, everything worked OOTB. Kanina I had to download flash and add it to chromium's extensions.

Other than that ok pa naman.

[duriancoffee]

Dun sa mga hindi nakakapansin since 10.10, yung itsura ng default wallpaper ng Ubuntu since the UI revamp me mga subtle differences pala.



Nakakatuwa, no? Pero napapansin ko rin na yung default wallpaper went from all-purple in 10.04 biglang nasasapawan yung kalahati ng orange in 12.04. Ano ba 'to? Babalik sa dating orange/brown theme? Ngek?!