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There is literally 100 guides to this, whoever told you you need more than a $100 GPU and a cpu that supports VFIO lied to you and you should never trust another word they say.

Heres all the links i have bookmarked. Im sure you can make it work. The performance is basically bare metal. you have to pull some fuckery with the conf file for nvidia cards or you get error 53 i believe, because theyre cocksuckers that want to milk everybody. but thats a different issue. i hope these work for you.

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I have an ASUS EEEbook X205ta that has the same.
I'm running 64-bit XUbuntu on it.
I only needed a 32-bit UEFI loader for grub on it to make it work.
Unfortunately, the Linux kernel still has trouble with the power saving modes of the Baytrail chipset, but some workarounds have been made.
Here and here are links with helpful information.

Probably talking about this. I assume.

ALSA has supported software mixing for over a decade.

Instead, try SSHing into the printer and typing directly into printer memory with copy con.

Source: How do i SSHot printing?

The was a discussion about this here... https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...

From what I can see, the Logitech G930 headphones seem seem to work out-the-box (but you may not have known where to look) although maybe missing some features:

http://blog.brendel.com/2011/0...

For the keyboard, did you try g15daemon? See e.g. https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...

Are you STILL bitching about a driver that takes all of seven steps to install in Linux and doesn't even need Bash? Give me a fricking break.

@mea2214: "Still waiting for whatever bugs are causing my installation of 16.04 to randomly freeze after 12 hours of runtime. Can they work on getting that more reliable so I can ditch Windows 10?" link

What was the response when you posted the problem on the Ubuntu Forum?

Unfortunately you are probably right. Small business accounting software has always been a weakness in Linux. There were a couple of attempts over the years but they all whithered and died without ever reaching a level comparable to quickbooks or even pastel.
There is a very good reason for that- which is unfortunately very hard to solve. There's plenty of people who would love to write such a program - after all lots of Linux devs are small business owners. But an accounting program - especially a business accounting program - requires more than programmers. You also need accountants and lawyers to make sure the thing is producing results compliant with local laws (tax laws, audit regulations etc. etc) everywhere you want it to work - because nobody wants to run their business on an accounting package that will land them in jail for tax fraud they didn't know they were committing.

This is where the problem comes in. Accountants and lawyers aren't cheap - and getting lots from many countries is even more expensive - and there just aren't many of them willing to volunteer their time. You can get programmers to volunteer to open source projects, but there are very few lawyers and accountaints who would.
So now to do this free/open source becomes extremely difficult because of the costs involved, you could try to do it for-profit as a proprietory app but you need to compete with a lot of established brands and your only unique feature is a tiny niche market they don't run on - and now you no longer get volunteer programmers so the cost goes up.
To actually be competitive priced as a new product in an established market where by the very nature of the product brand loyalty is pretty much built-in (since changing your accounting software is an expensive and risky process) is extremely hard.
About the only way this will change is if one of the established small business accounting packages actually decides it's worth supporting linux - or alternatively brings out a pure web SaaS solution that isn't priced beyond small business owners which you could use in a browser. Of course it sucks to be uploading your confidential business records to some other company's website which may mean that the accounting programs aren't all the interested in trying that anyway as many companies would balk at the suggestion.

I haven't looked into this market in a few years and there may be some developements recently that changed things but the sad reality is as it is.

That said this may be your best compromise right now: https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...

Not necessarily. For example, proper IOMMU isolation for PCH root ports was broken on Skylake Xeon E3 series CPUs on Linux prior to version 4.7. This affects basically every linux distro other than Arch currently. It basically lumped everything together into a single IOMMU, which is a problem if you're trying to do PCI passthrough or SR-IOV for virtual machines. Skylake has a change in the way ACS needs to be enabled. See http://www.serverphorums.com/r...

I ended up having to backport the patch to the 4.4 kernel in Ubuntu https://ubuntuforums.org/showt...

So basically, yeah, there are things other than microcode support that an OS would need for newer CPUs.

* Seriously disliking Unity. (But now I can install Cinnamon packages on Ubuntu easily.)

Under 16.04, Gnome Pannel (Gnome Flashback) is easier to install and configure then ever before. Full Ubuntu, and Gnome 2 look and feel in 5 minutes! http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

I have many machines that use Mint 17.3 but Catalyst or Crimson doesn't function well on my HP G6 with AMD A4 3300. Some reason the laptop turns on but the display is off. Not until I close the lid and open it again will the display turn on. This bug persists with Ubuntu 16.04 and even with Oibaf PPA which gives me the latest open source drivers. The drivers work great but I'd like to see something done cause this isn't a new problem.

Nomodeset does get the display to work but no 3D acceleration. Quick Google shows the problem is as old as 2012 at least.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

Please do come up with as many examples of its bad security as you'd like, I'd be willing to bet I could find a running Wordpress site to match each one. A site that hasn't been hacked and isn't going to any time soon, because if you're basing your security model on the security of one particular web application, you probably don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

I'm implying you fall into that latter category, if you're a bit too slow to catch on. At least you managed to restrain yourself from spamming up the comments with links to your pet project, Hugo. Here's an example of Hugo spamming the Ubuntu forums for reference:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

The ntfs-3g driver to read and write to NTFS from Linux is built-in into the kernel.

http://www.tuxera.com/communit...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

So I'll ask about another make of PC in the same form factor class (10" detachables). Reports show that an Acer Aspire Switch is no better.

I've a Linux lover and pusher but not a zelot. Sorry to say but GIMP tools and icons are just way to awkward. to use. I did manage to get some use out of it when I found this theme http://ubuntuforums.org/showth... but could not get past the way the tool work and how they are manipulated. Yes I had a hard time switching from Windows to OpeSuse when I went full Linux in 2007 but that only took a few weeks with GIMP I just can't vs Photoshop.

I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own.

I, on the other hand, have run into one thing that Linux didn't work with. I have a collection of accumulated 'stuff' and just last night Frankensteined a PC together. I don't even know the model number of most of the parts. It's an Nvidia 8600 (something) video card, and a Soundblaster Live, I know that much. Worked just fine, no issues. (Streams PC games from Steam pretty well to the TV upstairs, too.)

I purchased a mid-high prebuilt 'gaming rig' a couple years back, and everything 'just worked', except the "SoundBlaster® X-Fi XtremeAudio" card. That was the 'one thing'. There was a config fix but I just pulled the card and used the onboard MB audio. Whatever that is worked fine.

Just installed Linux for my cousin this weekend. Some HP laptop, I honestly didn't even check the model. Everything just worked, including the 'scroll region' on the trackpad, and the weird 'slide-touch' volume control above the keyboard.

A possible bug in Foxconn boards BIOS affects Linux ACPI

Windows Update drivers bricking USB serial chips

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.

In typical MS fashion it didn't get good until 3 versions later, IE4, before getting proprietary vendor lockin with that piece of shit IE6.

If IE6 was such a piece of shit, as you put it, that implies that the other browsers at the time were much worse than that. You've inadvertently made a profound statement about the browser landscape of the day. IE6 rightfully earned infamy in its unnaturally long life even more repugnant is rampant revisionism. IE introduced a feature that is the foundation of today's web, some of you might be aware of the XMLHttpRequest object, for the non-developers it's like the force now, all around us. JavaScript support and performance, CSS support. Unfortunately this period had to occur, and it will occur again once these lessons are forgotten; Without the stranglehold IE6 eventually obtained, and more importantly stagnated the web with, the choices we have today wouldn't exist.

Their stupidity of not being able to down-grade IE or simultaneously install different versions so web developers could test ALL the various versions, forcing people to rely on hacks like SandBoxie, was absolutely retarded.

As much as it pains me to say Microsoft wasn't unique in this regard, as an aside, try installing multiple versions of Safari. Even the easy mode package managers don't support multiple versions of browsers out of the box (not to say it's difficult). Internet Explorer 6 released in 2001 following the launch of Windows XP. For those unfamiliar with their history, Web Development of that era revolved around IE and Netscape. With IE being the Chrome of its day (as in "works here, onward!") since the browser market was 90%+ IE and IE6 was supported on Windows 98, NT, and 2k. Low usage for potential targets results in a chicken and the egg problem. Low single digits just aren't a priority for many shops, see Opera.

Sandboxie came out in 2004ish and has its uses, especially on 32bit machines. However, for web development involving IE it's much easier to use MultiIE which has been around since 2006. IETester is worth another mention. Not to mention there are alternatives due to the ever growing number of devices and variants released year after year, requiring a different approach such as farms that show screenshots from targeted browsers. Regarding the hassle of Sandboxie, limiting yourself to one tool is pretty silly.

This is a little off topic. Since this criticism is being framed as a Microsoft issue you might be shocked to discover how apps and to a lesser extent websites, are developed and tested in 2015 on devices manufactured and supported by multiple vendors. This process requires physical devices, in many cases multiple to support the popular OS versions on them (there are other OS, but they're less than 8%). Think it's a hack to wrangle Sandboxes or multiple installations, try wrangling devices that let you only upgrade! But what about device simulators, one might ask? Oh yes, they do exist and they're improving but there isn't a substitute for deploying and testing on device. IE variants are a dwindling piece of the very large fragmentation pie.

Microsoft writing the browser from scratch, is too little, too late.

Too late for whom? W

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions

"One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific.

It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the work.

Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.

Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open.

Or maybe we could patent something related to this."
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A possible bug in Foxconn boards BIOS affects Linux ACPI

Foxconn Does Hate Linux Support

And another recent article concerning ANL:

"Public access to the Argonne National Laboratory Software Mirror was closed down as of 1 Feb 2015. ... Many Linux mirrors, not just all of Ubuntu."

http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

Correction: I get close to 50% better battery life. When searching for "mac linux battery duration" the first linksays: "The only two things I *really* loved in OSX were:
* longer battery life
* very fast and efficient suspend/resume".

The second link says: "720p - Mac OS X ...
Result on 720p playback: +1h57 or +42% battery life."

The third link says: "To date the best estimated battery life value I have seen under Linux is 5 hours (I have not run an actual timed test yet) as compared to 7.5 in Mac OS"

Just one web search, three results all saying the same thing I have tested & seen for myself. OS X is much better than Linux. Shut yer trap linux bigot.

Thank you for your insightful commentary about my mental status. Yes, I may not have 160 IQ like you. I'm actually thankful for that, because I understand how to relate and empathize with other humans. You clearly do not. Since the problem must have been me, please go install Hardy Heron or Intrepid Ibex and set up a static address. If you can, please go here and tell these users they are all idiots also. We need people like you to keep losers like me and these other Ubuntu fellows on Windows where they belong. After all, if you cannot set up a DHCP server to hand out static addresses, what are you doing running Linux, right?

Thanks!

To which Ubuntu forum users massively agreed that this would make a great release name !

As an extra tip for anyone using XFCE, it's a good idea to disable the integrated compositor and use Compton instead. The default XFWM4 compositor uses XRender which often causes tearing.

Create digital masters on hard disk with Gnome CD Master : https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/ap... also on 13.10 here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...

So as I understand this thread, the process would involve shrinking the existing Windows partition, installing Linux, and using the Windows partition as a virtual machine's VHD. This would appear to Windows as a drastic hardware change, forcing either reactivation or cessation of use of Windows-exclusive applications. Someone said that it would even use up an activation credit every time the VM restarts, forcing the user to either explain the situation daily to someone with a heavy accent or cease use of Windows-exclusive applications.

This news may be a little bit over exaggerated: Similar things happened before, see 5-year boy broke the Ubuntu Desktop (possibly others) http://ubuntuforums.org/showth....

LXDE does not have a compositor at all. Set up Compton and your tearing should go away.

Ah, posted the wrong link. The instructions for getting the touchpad to work on 12.04 LTS are here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2190187

You could try denying firefox the ability to force the operating system to write out it's file cache. Described here.

As a 12+ year Linux users, I have to give Shuttleworth some rope to hang or prove himself. For example, back in Gnome 2x-3x transition days, Gnome panel was broken for widescreen devices like LCD monitors and netbooks.[1] Unity turned out a bloated for my taste, but I fully understand his frustration with Gnome. In the end, for heavy weight desktops, I prefer Unity over Gnome 3.

PulseAudiois fine for playing music, but a real PITA for many hardcore gamers[2][3] including myself. I found latency was terrible with Wine + PA and later saw the developers had an issue with PA too.[4] After countless hours lost trying to debug some PA issues, I lost all respect for Poettering. The only worse sound server that I’ve encountered is AudioFlinger, and at least that has the excuse of being optimized for battery life over latency. So like Shuttleworth, I'm skeptical about any of Poettering's work.

Now to the meat of the debate, Mir. It's clear X11 is fundamentally broken for modern desktop/GPUs. [5] It needs to die and I don't care if it is replaced by Mir or Wayland. I have been hearing about Wayland for years now, and only after Mir was announced did I start to hear about it actually reaching a usable state. I wish they'd work together but maybe a little competition will help us all to finally rid Linux of X11.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382

[2] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/pulse...

[3] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960195

[4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODM

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

• Skype helped the NSA collect video and audio of conversations conducted via Skype
• Skype accesses more files on your computer than you'd expect it to
• Skype helps China's government spy

All of those are incredibly valuable. The CIA alone spends $11.5 billion on Data Collection Expenses each year. And of all organizations, Skype is one of the most able to provide information to them - whatever your PC's microphone's hearing now - whatever non-skype-related files Skype keeps accessing even though it has no need to - etc.

2013-07-20 2011UTC: Reports of defacement
2013-07-20 2015UTC: Site taken down, this splash page put in place while investigation continues.

It took 4 years after they were notified until they took the site down, in the future.

I will counter your googling for office crashes, not with facts, but with my own googling of libre office crashes! That's a sure fire way to get people on-side!

Libre Office crashing all over the place:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/952/writer-35-keeps-crashing/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/41329/how-can-i-stop-libreoffice-from-randomly-crashing
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/163405-open-office-3-libre-crashes.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/data-crash-and-recovery-with-libre-office-937038/
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1259
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/2908
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12071436

Libre Office crashing on startup:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3511/libreoffice-crashes-on-opening/
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/151139-Open-Office-and-Libre-Office-crash-on-start-up

Must be: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=150352

And I could've sworn I said

i'm sure there's an osx solution

what part of that didn't you get?

Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well

Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.

Sad example. A bug with a distribution upgrade 5 years ago is not an "apt-get upgrade" issue. Not to mention the one from 2012 looks more like someone dicking around with the perl libraries and it broke when upgrading their distro.

By all means, keep grasping at straws. Linux does have its issues, the vast majority of which are on the backend and out of sight for users. There is no perfect OS, but to try and compare it to the shitfest that is windows and it's upgrades..... sorry no. You're way off course.

Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system. Not sure it's ever even happened to me.

Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well

Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.

Just a side note: to use current Netflix on Linux, guys uses wine + firefox + moonlight. And it works pretty fine. See more here, a working ppa with all the solution working: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084592 This is a good point about current Linux distros status: if you don't want port your application, no problem, we can simulate your environment. Ok, not FOSS solution, but at least works.

Hello! I can assure you you're not the only one whose skills are between those of a normal person and a Unix veteran. In fact, I'm upgrading to the next Ubuntu LTS within minutes, using the GUI.

I think fixing whatever problem your computer has with the help of http://ubuntuforums.org/ is a good first step. After that you could try different window managers (Unity, KDE...). That way you'll find your way of doing things and will also learn how to swap parts of your Linux.

Finding out how you want to do things is important, since then you'll be a lot more motivated when you try to modify your system.

Have you looked at the Lenovo Yoga? It does run Linux with multi-touch.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1911972&page=3

If you don't have a floppy and still need to boot into FreeDOS to run a utility or whatever, it is possible to boot it from Grub. Here is how to boot FreeDOS from Grub on Ubuntu.

Multiple webcams:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1897786

Motion can be told to act on or ignore a light switching off/on using a threshold.

It can be setup to detect large or small amounts of motion and long or short periods of time before triggering.

I'm not sure about singling out specific parts of the screen as triggerable/not triggerable.

Comparing it to a command line player is just silly. That's like comparing a $2 million luxury RV to a bicycle.

No, it's like comparing a spoon to an InYourFaceFoodShover 40,000 XL.

The former does one thing, and does it flawlessly. No matter what the food is, where the food is, or where your mouth is, it always does what you want it to do. You can combine it with other utensils and be in control of your meal.

The latter is for people who are too lazy to learn how to use utensils. It shoves food in your mouth. And sometimes your ears. It's always changing, so you never know what it will do next.

--libman

It works fine for me at least, though it loads a bit slow. Has all the features you describe except calendar integration, but you can get that by using Kontact (which gives access to both Kmail, calendar and contacts in the same interface). Integrates with KDE address book, syncs with Google contacts/Google Calendar, PGP+S/MIME encryption/signing, modern UI, import/export, Sieve rules editor, modern UI (threaded message list, though no Gmail-like threading).

KMail developers and maintainers seem hellbent on breaking existing functionality every few versions. And by break, I mean stuff like "delete all your old mail" and "make your mail go away after version upgrade, maybe forever, maybe just a few weeks". If you've avoided these issues in your upgrades, you've been lucky -- so far. Akonadi and Nepomuk, whatever the hell those are, really aren't ready for prime time. As such, KMail has gotten too "alpha quality" to use in such mundane, critical, production work as -- well -- email.

has the 10-foot UI capability of Windows and Steam improved to the point where one can use VGA out through a scan converter as a media PC's primary UI?

There are adapters out there that will convert HDMI or DVI to S-Video

I'm aware of these adapters. SewellDirect.com sells them, for example. However, the whole reason why general computer use moved away from TVs in the first place was that the 480i resolution of S-Video makes general computer use difficult, as most PC applications are not optimized for such a low-density display.

In the advanced search on store.steampowered.com, I failed to figure out how to filter for games that include full support for multiple controllers.

As far as Steam goes you'd probably have to use the website

I was using the website.

Look up "passing arguments to Steam"

For one thing, the only Google result for that exact phrase is this page which appears not nearly relevant. Removing the quote marks brought me to this page, which likewise mentions nothing about search. But I'm probably being "far far too literal" again. I tried steam search filter multiplayer and found a recently posted request for enhancement for this very feature, which sort of rules out the feature already being present in Steam search. In any case, how would the average end user discover how to pass in the right filters to Steam or Google?

for an HTPC [Windows 8's Start Screen] gives you a bright easy to read target to hit so frankly for that particular niche its not bad

You have a point there. The modern UI works on Windows 8 for the same reason it works on Xbox 360 (apart from two-thirds of the tile space on the 360 being taken by advertisements).

But Steam works, all the games on Steam don't seem to be bothered by metro

Do all the games on Steam have a "10-foot" user interface that can be read from far away or on a 480i S-Video monitor?

If it sounds like I'm trolling, that's certainly not my intent. I'm just trying to present the alleged barriers to firmly establishing the PC as the fourth console. Some other Slashdot users stick to their claims that 1. the complexity of connecting and maintaining a PC is unsuitable for the majority of living rooms apart from a slim minority of geeks, 2. there exist video game genres that don't work well on a PC, phone, or tablet, and 3. for this reason, these genres are unsuitable for independent developers. By relaying their arguments to you, a staunch fan of living-room PCs, the goal is that the answers will lead me to counterarguments to organize by the next discussion.

One Slashdot regular maintains that paying one's dues to the establishment is the only viable way to get an idea out to the public in the form of a video game, and console makers' requirement for previous experience is the only way to vet games for quality and prevent a repeat of the 1983 crash (for which see Wikipedia and TV Tropes). He maintains that part of paying such dues involves moving to Austin, Boston, Seattle, or Silicon Valley, just as stage actors need to move to Broadway and screen actors need to move to Hollywood. So I humored him and asked him for tips on rearranging my life so that I can work for the establishment, and in this post he said that if I have

Netflix on Ubuntu Linux! (from the Linux community, anyway) non-security post

At the moment, from several sources it appears to be a clever hack or work around until the Linux community (and/or Netflix) pulls together a proper package(s).

I haven't tried this myself but I found it useful enough to post here. As usual, please consider whether or not you trust the source(s) of these package(s) and the instructions. I'm publishing this as a news item, but not a recommendation because I have not audited the method(s)/package(s) mentioned within the article(s).

- Resources:

Check the thread below @ Ubuntu Forums and the updates at IHeartUbuntu for the latest updates to this story.

Ubuntu Forums Thread with discussion on the topic:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?&t=2084592

Initial post @ iheartubuntu.com:
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html

@ iheartubuntu.com - update #1:
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/update-on-netflix.html

@ iheartubuntu.com - update #2 (most recent as of this blog post):
Re: PPA for Netflix Desktop App
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/ppa-for-netflix-desktop-app.html

Published @ http://securityflakes.livelyblog.com/

OK, so I'm sure some enterprising /.-er can write a script that watches the SSD controller and issues some clicks to the sound card when cells are marked as failed.

It's called: LINUX! Yes, that's right! Linux will actually WARN YOU ( "Warning Drive Failure is Imminent") when your drive's SMART reports its error rate is too high!

I don't know how else to fucking say it: STOP USING MS WINDOWS!