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Here you go on how to switch between the integrated and discrete video cards: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=991624&highlight=sound+w500 Oh and to be certain, there is no battery life problem with Linux :)

I've personally experienced issues with my laptop BIOS. It works properly in Windows, but a lot of the ACPI functions just flat out don't work in Linux. This is due to a compiler that lets the code compile with errors (Mainly functions that don't return a value when they should). This allows the BIOS programmers to be lazy, and write half assed power functions that don't work properly.

You can fix a lot of these issues by following the instructions in one of the links below to decompile that portion of the BIOS, and recompile it using the Intel compiler. It isn't easy, and certainly isn't something an user should ever have to do. It did fix a lot of the power issues with my HP laptop though (Running hot, not booting on battery power unless a key was pressed, hibernation).

See
http://www.osnews.com/thread?230516
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1036051
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/272247?comments=all


In this instance, you can blame MS's poor compiler for Linux's poor battery life.

Apparently Apple is checking for an appropriate user agent string. The following worked for me "wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov".
source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1245441

Apparently Apple did something today. Doesn't work for me either.

Let's take a look at the first bold bit there; protecting the rights of the creator is one hell of an incentive to publish their works

Here is the subtle difference I feel is so important. The law was not originally intended to protect the rights of a creator. It was intended as a restriction of the rights of others for the overall betterment of society.

The bastardisation is found directly in the term "copyright", which is a fairly recent term that shifts the focus away from the restrictions, and creates the idea of an intrinsic right to own an idea.


saulgoode's response here says it better than I can:

Originally Posted by karellen:
their choices regard their work, not mine. they have no right to tell me what to do with my intellectual creation, and nor do I. if something is forcing me to restrain what I do with my work, well...let's not call it freedom...

saulgoode's response:
The point isn't that anyone is telling you what you can do with your work, it is that copyright law is restricting what others can do with your work. Your "freedom" isn't restricted by someone humming a tune which you wrote, or telling a story which you authored, or sharing an application which you programmed. Copyright isn't about what the author of a work can do with his work, it is about what others can't do.

This restriction upon the activities of others is not an inherent "right", it is a temporary subsidy granted to you by society as an incentive to your sharing works publicly. It is only to the extent that society benefits from this subsidization of the arts and sciences that the restriction of the rights of others can be justified.

Assuming ubuntu (considering that's what was discussed before), pulseaudio or possibly alsa-base. I recently had some major issues with my sound on ubuntu, and they were fixed by doing sudo apt-get purge alsa-base pulseaudio && sudo apt-get install pulseaudio alsa-base and installing some packages suggested in this guide.

Re: Pdf to Latex convesrion
remember that PDF's main design goal is visual layout. it does not contain structural information.

a latex will specify that something is a section or subsection heading, pdf only says what font,size and position the words should have.

also latex keeps track of figures, tables and references, and only puts the numbers in when exporting to pdf (or dvi if you are oldschool). the pdf file will just have the numbers, not the associations.

you would need clever code to rebuild all the information that is lost in a pdf file.

Looks to me like we're back to the central difference between document structure and document presentation once again. Structure is amendable to algorithmic processing. Presentation in its purest form (think a jpeg of a handwritten note), while perhaps giving pixel by pixel control of display, is much less amendable to, for instance, sweeping regex modifications. Hence the desire to keep the two separate, and my suggestion to not let go of the "source" when you've built the "binary", so to speak.

I had the same problem today even installing from repos... found a slightly odd workaround that worked at Ubuntu Forums.

You're assuming that he's labeling letters rather than labeling something like test tubes on a one-by-one basis (ie, a sheet of labels would be wasted)

Googling around, it looks like if you take care of a few oddities you can use certain Dymo LabelWriters with CUPS. There's an older howto here. We've got a few we've used (on windows) for years.

Hell, even at $500 for a Mac Mini, I could build a PC that would trash it in every performance aspect.

In the same form factor? I'd be surprised.

A quick Google found a guy on a Ubuntu forum who came close on specs, and close on price. But acknowledged that he didn't get any of the bundled Mini sw - and unless you're going with a free OS, the OS is going to be a big chunk on top of that, not to mention iLife (since everyone else is too)

What filesystem do you plan on using for your shared /home?

My OS X partition uses HFS+ Journaled, the home partition is HFS+, and when I install Ubuntu Studio I'll format it's partition then. I'd use HFS+ Journaled for the home partition but Ubuntu doesn't support it.

do you put your OS X /Applications on the primary partition?

With Disk Utilities I created three partitions on my HDD, the first 30GB, the last 30 GB as well, and the rest of the space taken by the partition in the middle. I installed Leopard on the first, then setup the second as the home partition. When I install it I'll install Ubuntu Studio on the third. For the OS X apps I installed them in the OS X Applications folder.

I want to do the same thing but couldn't find a filesystem that both supported well enough to hold my docs.

If you're going to install Linux on a Mac may I suggest you do your research and create a roadmap or strategy for installing Linux first? I spent months doing my research, however I had specific things I wanted to do. If you're using Ubuntu check out the Ubuntu on Macs page. Also check out the Ububtu forums. Be aware that how it's installed depends on the Mac model. As for your question about file systems check out how to create a shared home partition between Linux and OS X.

One thing about that page though is that there is an easier way to tell OS X, Leopard, where to put the home folder. In System Preferences open Accounts. If you have to click on the padlock in the lower left corner of the window and type in an admin name and password to unlock it. Once you are able to make changes [ctrl] click on your account and elect "Advanced Options". Where the window says "Home Directory" clink on "Choose" and navigate to where you want the home directory. Now you'll have to be logged into each account to make the changes for each user, I don't know why logging in as an admin can't do it but when I just tried it didn't allow me to make changes to other users. You may also have to manually move all of the user files from the old place to the new one.

And if you want to dual or multi-boot you can use the same browser and email profiles in each OS, if you're using Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin you can use a single data store. When I said above that I took months of research because I wanted to do specific things, it was stuff like these. Now I still need to find out how I can run OS X as a guest in Ubuntu, it's no problem running Ubuntu as a guest in Leopard, there are a number of guest or virtual OS options.

Falcon

I challenge you to find a similar PC that is cheaper:

This person did it a year ago. (Wonderful what a little google search can do, isn't it?)

I just threw one together with similar specs for $350 plus shipping, and it even has wireless (g, not n, but who has an n router?). Throw Ubuntu on there and you're good to go. The case measures 11.8" x 5.1" x 8.7", so it's a little bit bigger, but I think that's worth $250 in savings :P

Case (larger than the mac mini)
Motherboard (lacks firewire and wireless n, and has an older video chipset)
Processor (much faster, 2.8GHz vs the mini's 2.0GHz)
RAM (2GB vs the mini's 1GB, but only 800MHz)
Hard drive (500GB vs the mini's 120GB)
DVD-RW (24x vs the mini's 8x)

(None of those are affiliate links, don't worry :P)

Now if you spend a little more time searching than I did, you could certainly get better parts and still stay well below the mac mini's $599 price level. One thing I would suggest is using a smaller case that includes a slimline DVD-RW, as did the person in the ubuntu forums link I started this post with. The case used by the guy in ubuntu's forums measures 6.5"x6.5"x2", the same size as the mac mini.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006395

From what I've read, the range of refunds given has been variable if not arbitrary. This thread on the ubuntu forums is an interesting place to start reading about some differenct experiences people have had.

I was also interested to learn recently that it is possible to buy machines with no OS from some vendors. The college I work for has this ability through our Dell rep. This post in the above-mentioned thread is particularly interesting, as it claims that anybody can request and receive a new computer without an OS from several vendors.

From what I've read, the range of refunds given has been variable if not arbitrary. This thread on the ubuntu forums is an interesting place to start reading about some differenct experiences people have had.

I was also interested to learn recently that it is possible to buy machines with no OS from some vendors. The college I work for has this ability through our Dell rep. This post in the above-mentioned thread is particularly interesting, as it claims that anybody can request and receive a new computer without an OS from several vendors.

I think he's asking for a way to work together on the same code at the same time. If this is the case, a solution like SSH and Screen would be more to the point.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299286

If using Ubuntu then visit and ask the question at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=338, they are friendly bunch and don't bite.

I think his point is that MacPorts covers 99% of the Linux/Unix workalike software out there.

MacPorts does not support CinePaint.

Sure there is a lot of Linux only stuff - but typically only because the project is still in alpha and hasn't taken off yet.

I heard about MacPorts 5 years ago. If it's not out of alpha it's never be out of beta.

Given that, the drivers for the hardware on the device are not likley to be supported by Linux for some time after it's release...

I have been investigating installing Ubuntu on my Mac for months. Because CinePaint was dropped from Ubuntu I've been thinking of installing Ubuntu Studio, which does include CinePaint, and I have not found one deal breaker. Ubuntu Forums has a number of posts on how to install Ubuntu on Macs such as this one, "Macbook Pro- Santa Rosa", which is what my Mac's version.

Nothing but ego apparently.

Ego has nothing to do with it. I'd rather try the free CinePaint to edit my photographs than spend several hundred dollars I don't have to buy Photoshop.

Falcon

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

I found the solution: Starting point: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6986051&postcount=7 Replace 10-hinting-slight.conf with 10-hinting-full.conf.

In all honestly, a lot can be learned from ubuntu by just searching through search engines.

I'd suggest dogpile as a practical engine if not google itself.

Both ways, every problem I've ever had from being a really basic ubuntu noob to being slightly more experienced (I'm far from a pro) all started with the ubuntu forums.

When I've installed Ubuntu on other peoples the machines the first thing I do is remove PulseAudio. It offers no benefit for the average user and is the source of many headaches. Imagine being a new user and, when when discovering you can't do anything sound related, have to dive into a nasty tome of a HOWTO like this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578. You'd be looking for your Windows install disk before you even started scrolling down.

TFA says that the way sound is implemented in the kernel is basically okay, but there are problems with how the kernel's facilities are used at higher levels by applications, and with the way the whole thing is integrated by distros. I think he's basically correct.

As an example of what's not broke about the kernel, and doesn't need to be fixed, it's a good thing that we still have support for OSS. OSS allows you to do sound I/O in exactly the way you would expect to do sound I/O based on the fundamental design principles of unix. You just do open(), ioctl(), read() or write() on devices like /dev/dsp. If you couldn't do that, it would be a failure to do the obvious, straightforward stuff to handle sound in the Unix Way.

As an example of what is broken at higher levels: I run Ubuntu Jaunty. Sound works fine every time I boot the computer, and I get the bongo sound as the login screen comes up. Then when I log in, master playback is muted, and the volume is down at 1/31. Also, the way the Gnome icon shows me that sound is muted (a tiny red box with a white x in it) is the same as the way the network icon would show me that I'd disconnected my ethernet cable or something; in other words, it makes it look like it's not just muted, but actually broken. Here's my best attempt to characterize the bug: Here's a bug on launchpad that may or may not be the same thing:

Sansa Clip, very good sound quality, ogg and flac support

From the page you linked: "OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista". According to this page, it actually works with Linux, but you might need to borrow someone's Windows PC to update the firmware.

Not just requires Leopard - it runs only on Macs with Core 2 (or some Xeon) processors.

Ump, I didn't know that.

That means not only no PPC love, but even the first several Intel Macs are out of luck. Like my wife's 2-year old laptop (only 1 year old or so when they finally released Java 6).

She must of gotten just before Apple released the Core 2 MBP. Perhaps version 2,x. I got mine about 22 months ago, it's a MacBook Pro 3,1.

Perhaps from that link you can tell I have or want to install Ubuntu 9.04 on my MBP. Because it does not include in the install or repositories CinePaint I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu Studio 9.04 which does have CinePaint.

Falcon

yeah, one wonders why.

If your laptop uses an onboard Intel graphics chip, you may need to stick with 8.04 to get the best performance.

http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359578

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1132722.html

You can use ipchains instead since iptables is deprecated. Also, slackware package manager is not the best, and I'm a slackware big fan, if you're intrested in packages for slack, you should check http://slackbuilds.org/ and http://packages.slackware.it/ and http://www.linuxpackages.net/.
in the first one you compile the stuff yourself and only download a configuration to create the package, in the other 2 you just download pre-made packages (like rpm) - it's okay once you get used to it (with packagetools, upgradepkg, installpkg,removepkg) but it's still not as good as debian based package manager (apt-get) or gentoo repository.
I find myself compile lots of stuff that other Linux users don't even use (or know how to compile if he/she is Ubuntu users).
But the OS do exactly what I want it to do! nothing more, nothing less! and that's what Slackware is all about.
If you want to compile your own kernel, easy, exactly the same kind of easiness from other distros, but I don't know, I just felt inlove with Slackware!.

About your iptables problem, do this :


Looks like you didn't enable iptables in the kernel. I think you need to have the ipchains module enabled.
Try enabling these, and the other boxes listed below them.
Networking>Network Packet Filtering>Core Netfilter>Netfilter Xtable support
Networking>Network Packet Filtering>IP Netfilter>IP Tables Support


(from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278456)

Goodluck,
Zuk.

Your choice of OS is yours, but I think you'll find Ubuntu easier with a couple small tips.

1) For your TV card, if it is supported mythtv should work well for you. I saw a lot of dependencies, but that's not really a problem, it's just like a large app install in windows, but done automatically for you.

2) For flash and java, all you have to install is the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and that is all set up for you automatically.

3) As for Openoffice.org being slow for you, I don't know what to tell you except I'm on an old P4 and it runs fine here. Maybe Version 3.0 will work better, it certainly is an improvement.

4) Perhaps you should try the new Ubuntu 9.04, it's a bit more polished than 8.10 and farther ahead than previous versions in many ways.

5) Lastly http://ubuntuforums.org/ is a really helpful place. Where you can ask simple questions and not get yelled at.

According to this post this wrapper works under WINE with Diablo2.

If you are buying equipment at random and not considering whether or not is is compatible, I would completely agree, but with so many Linux HCL web sites out there, "lack of support" is unlikely to be a barrier. Linux tends to have best support for the highest quality equipment, and particularly great legacy equipment no longer supported by other systems. But if one is serious about picking good equipment and are not presently tied down with any vendor lock-in, then it is all a matter of personal preference.

If you want the highest quality equipment, and time is far more precious than money, I'd say Mac. If you are looking for most economical and you have a small staff that is open minded to learning, I'd say look at the features available among Linux A/V Software and see if it will meet your needs, and check the documentation to ensure that you don't need to be a Linux guru to understand it. Next, Check the Linux HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) for the best reviews, then find what equipment is the cheapest that meets all your needs. Word of warning, always look at the pros and cons and see which ones meet your bottom line. Some well reviewed stuff may be missing an "minor" feature you need, and sometimes poorly reviewed devices are rated as such because they are missing some non-critical "major" feature, like only have one supported output. If that output type meets your needs, who cares which inferior transfer method isn't supported. I am sure other people will have good arguments for Windows and Mac, so I will leave that to them, but if you are seriously considering Linux, I would highly recommend checking out and having this same discussion at the Ubuntu Multimedia & Video forum and the Multimedia Production forum.

If you are buying equipment at random and not considering whether or not is is compatible, I would completely agree, but with so many Linux HCL web sites out there, "lack of support" is unlikely to be a barrier. Linux tends to have best support for the highest quality equipment, and particularly great legacy equipment no longer supported by other systems. But if one is serious about picking good equipment and are not presently tied down with any vendor lock-in, then it is all a matter of personal preference.

If you want the highest quality equipment, and time is far more precious than money, I'd say Mac. If you are looking for most economical and you have a small staff that is open minded to learning, I'd say look at the features available among Linux A/V Software and see if it will meet your needs, and check the documentation to ensure that you don't need to be a Linux guru to understand it. Next, Check the Linux HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) for the best reviews, then find what equipment is the cheapest that meets all your needs. Word of warning, always look at the pros and cons and see which ones meet your bottom line. Some well reviewed stuff may be missing an "minor" feature you need, and sometimes poorly reviewed devices are rated as such because they are missing some non-critical "major" feature, like only have one supported output. If that output type meets your needs, who cares which inferior transfer method isn't supported. I am sure other people will have good arguments for Windows and Mac, so I will leave that to them, but if you are seriously considering Linux, I would highly recommend checking out and having this same discussion at the Ubuntu Multimedia & Video forum and the Multimedia Production forum.

What supported Windows configuration requires the use of RegEdit?

RegEdit in Windows is analogous to about:config in Firefox: it's the place where the unsupported/unworking configuration options go. It's not intended to be used by end-users, ever. RegEdit only ships with the OS for two reasons:
1) To help advanced users troubleshoot issues
2) To allow the registry to be exported/backed-up. (And now that Windows makes internal Registry backups, *and* ships with good backup software, this reason is legacy at this point.)

When I wanted to change the DPI on my laptop running Ubuntu 9.04, and "DPI" didn't show up in the Help system, I Googled it. The first and third Google results reference either config files and the CLI. The second was totally irrelevant. It wasn't until the fourth result that the *correct* (GUI) solution is listed. (At which point, knowing that a GUI for this exists, I just got pissed that it didn't show up in the online help at all!)

Then you set it and all your applications are in the correct DPI except the one you actually cared about (Firefox).

As the dad of a four year old who uses flash in Ubuntu Linux, I have to ask, what distro/version are you running?

In 9.04 (and for the last few releases as I recall), when Ubuntu encounters a flash file in Firefox for the first time, it *offers* to install Flash.

When you set up the system, you could install the flashplugin-installer package which downloads and installs it for you. If you enabled the Canonical Partner repository when you set it up, you can install adobe-flashplugin and then its all done.

Xvid would require a codec download; similar to the flash plugin, Ubuntu will offer to do that when you try to run an Xvid-encoded video file without the codec installed; alternately just installing a big batch of gstreamer plugins when you first set up the system will ensure you don't have to install codecs later (I would recommend: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse).

DVDs are almost all encrypted and its a little more work; you need to add a suitable repository (Medibuntu) and install the libdvdcss2 package.

Now, if you can't be bothered to act as the OEM for your sons or invest a couple minutes figuring out how to help them, that's one thing, but this isn't 1999; Linux in general, and Ubuntu specifically, is easy to use and there's quite a lot of help available, e.g. http://ubuntuforums.org/

I guess the reason why I'd never switched to Linux is because of shit like this? It's too tiring to have to fight against the lack of commercial and vendor support - very few businesses have any faith in it for the desktop. This means I continually hesitate if I'm going to be buying a car navigation unit, phone, web cam or any other peripheral because I will be expecting it NOT to work in Linux. If it somehow does, it generally is only after a lot of work googling and running weird scripts in a terminal.

eg. Eever tried synching a Blackberry in Linux? In Windows it's easy - install the BlackBerry Desktop Software and away you go. In Linux, or Ubuntu at least, you have to follow all this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190938 . Yeah, really gonna happen for the non-geek end user. It's true that this is entirely the vendor's fault for not supporting Linux, but the problem is that for the hardware people WANT to use, very few do. So what would most people do, go without? Shit no, they'll run Windows and alieviate the stress and hardship.

THAT'S why even on a netbook, Linux will always come second-best.

MS has been such a problem by making unrefusable offers, that it's part of common culture. Making fun of it was probably a factor in a former political cartoon itself getting an offer it couldn't refuse and ending up under the control of MS' own competitor to Salon. A Gates-style "buy out" is a concept of its own.

... Their owners sell them because there's a chance their company will fail and they'll go under...

That's exactly the point repeated throughout this topic by many people. But you left off the reason: the small company will likely go under because it has been targeted by Megacorp, for a small business Microsoft is the kiss of death. Besides, advocating use of MS products at this late date is to knowingly advocate bleeding money from US workers. How many have to be fired to pay for the "upgrades", which in turn pay for the "buyouts"?

I'm guessing you are using an Intel-based graphics card? Amusing that they broke acceleration-support for the most videly-used card.

This might help: HOWTO: Jaunty Intel Graphics Performance Guide

I recently put on Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my wife's computer and it's hands down the best release yet.

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my Mac however one of the reasons for doing so is so I can use CinePaint to edit photos but it was removed from Ubuntu. So now unless I can find a way to install CinePaint in Ubuntu I don't think I'll install it.

However, i'm still in no mans land as My scanner, art pad, and games rely on windows xp

Watcom tablets work on Ubuntu. As do scanners. I have an Epson Perfection V500 scanner others have gotten to work on Ubuntu.

I truly wish Adobe would port over photoshop to Linux.

So do I but people have gotten CS2 to run in CrossOver and CS3 in WINE. Others have gotten CS4 to run in Ubuntu, though not perfectly.

If I can't get CinePaint to install I may end up getting Photoshop myself. I want to try CinePaint first though to see if it will do what I want. If I do get PH I'll probably buy it off eBay where older versions can be bought cheap then upgraded.

Falcon

I recently put on Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my wife's computer and it's hands down the best release yet.

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my Mac however one of the reasons for doing so is so I can use CinePaint to edit photos but it was removed from Ubuntu. So now unless I can find a way to install CinePaint in Ubuntu I don't think I'll install it.

However, i'm still in no mans land as My scanner, art pad, and games rely on windows xp

Watcom tablets work on Ubuntu. As do scanners. I have an Epson Perfection V500 scanner others have gotten to work on Ubuntu.

I truly wish Adobe would port over photoshop to Linux.

So do I but people have gotten CS2 to run in CrossOver and CS3 in WINE. Others have gotten CS4 to run in Ubuntu, though not perfectly.

If I can't get CinePaint to install I may end up getting Photoshop myself. I want to try CinePaint first though to see if it will do what I want. If I do get PH I'll probably buy it off eBay where older versions can be bought cheap then upgraded.

Falcon

I recently put on Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my wife's computer and it's hands down the best release yet.

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my Mac however one of the reasons for doing so is so I can use CinePaint to edit photos but it was removed from Ubuntu. So now unless I can find a way to install CinePaint in Ubuntu I don't think I'll install it.

However, i'm still in no mans land as My scanner, art pad, and games rely on windows xp

Watcom tablets work on Ubuntu. As do scanners. I have an Epson Perfection V500 scanner others have gotten to work on Ubuntu.

I truly wish Adobe would port over photoshop to Linux.

So do I but people have gotten CS2 to run in CrossOver and CS3 in WINE. Others have gotten CS4 to run in Ubuntu, though not perfectly.

If I can't get CinePaint to install I may end up getting Photoshop myself. I want to try CinePaint first though to see if it will do what I want. If I do get PH I'll probably buy it off eBay where older versions can be bought cheap then upgraded.

Falcon

I recently put on Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my wife's computer and it's hands down the best release yet.

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my Mac however one of the reasons for doing so is so I can use CinePaint to edit photos but it was removed from Ubuntu. So now unless I can find a way to install CinePaint in Ubuntu I don't think I'll install it.

However, i'm still in no mans land as My scanner, art pad, and games rely on windows xp

Watcom tablets work on Ubuntu. As do scanners. I have an Epson Perfection V500 scanner others have gotten to work on Ubuntu.

I truly wish Adobe would port over photoshop to Linux.

So do I but people have gotten CS2 to run in CrossOver and CS3 in WINE. Others have gotten CS4 to run in Ubuntu, though not perfectly.

If I can't get CinePaint to install I may end up getting Photoshop myself. I want to try CinePaint first though to see if it will do what I want. If I do get PH I'll probably buy it off eBay where older versions can be bought cheap then upgraded.

Falcon

Maybe its been a while since you looked at it, according to their page it looks like debian and ubuntu are supported.

CinePaint has not been in Ubuntu since 8.10 intrepid. Search Ubuntu Studio and it returns no results for CinePaint. If CinePaint is part of it why doesn't it return anything? Now the CinePaint website does have a link to a .deb package but Debian has not supported it for years. According to CinePaint "CinePaint was removed from Debian lenny (testing) because Debian has dropped support for GTK1." The Debian people who worked on CinePaint are no longer there. And the .deb available is experimental.

I did my research to see if Ubuntu would do what I wanted.

Falcon

It's the preloads. So when you hear the press complaining about Linux as it came from the OEM and not about installation problems, it's game-on and most likely game-over for MSFT.

Exactly! I'm an avid Ubuntu user and post on the forums. More often than not, people are complaining about installation issues. They can't find the correct drivers for their hardware, etc.

I recently did an installation of Windows XP with a non-OEM disk (one purchased legally, but didn't come with the machine). It's much harder to install Windows than it is Ubuntu. The generic Windows installation disk had none of the drivers I needed for the machine. This was a machine that came with Windows XP from the factory. You can read my story on the forums.

The fact is, most people don't use Linux because it's too difficult to install. However, Ubuntu is much easier to install than Windows, but it doesn't matter because Windows comes preinstalled.

An Ubuntu install by default will see Windows partitions. You still have to navigate the directory structure manually to create a shortcut, but as long as you've installed Wine (I honestly don't recall if it was installed by default or not), it's either a double-click away or you may have to right-click it to tell it to launch with Wine. Regardless, it's pretty simple for someone who has a moderate knowledge of computers and GUI usage. It is most certainly not the exclusive domain of leet hackers. Heck, it even does a passable job of Direct3D wrapping, but you'll note a performance boost (and UI glitches will go away) if you modify the config.wtf file in the WTF folder of your WoW install to instruct WoW to use OpenGL rendering. Downside: you lose the hardware cursor. There is a (moderately complicated) workaround with a custom-patched Wine install to make it so your system cursor shows up on top of Windows apps.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1112416&highlight=screen+shots

Lots of screenshots for you to peruse.

"Since in the past it was not possible, just wondering, if hibernation can work with your swap partition encrypted with LUKS/dm-crypt"

Encrypted Root and Swap with LUKS on Ubuntu 6.06

"Aside from that, does swap size have to match physical RAM for hibernation, even if the machine has copious and largely unused amounts of it?"

"if you use hibernate, make it larger than your physical memory"
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