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Seven Essential Tips For Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-to-wrangle dept.

Ed Albro writes "Matthew Newton, a columnist at PC World, has a great article up on seven things you'll want to change as soon as you start using Feisty Fawn. Some are as simple as making sure the Alt key works right, another gives you step-by-step instructions for turning on the impressive Beryl interface. 'I could spend a whole 'nother column telling you about all the great packages that are not installed by default, but for now I'll just leave you with this bonus tip: If you're running Ubuntu on a laptop and your Wi-Fi card is not detected or supported, try installing the Ndisgtk package (listed as such in Synaptic, but as 'Wireless Windows Drivers' in Add/Remove Applications). Then select the new System, Administration, Windows Wireless Drivers entry in Ubuntu's menu bar.'"

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  1. Tip #8 by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Wanna play with my Fiesty Fawn?" should never be used as a pick-up line.

    1. Re:Tip #8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about "Can I install my Randy Rhino into your Slippery Snatch"

  2. Re:Linux: Not There Yet by just_another_sean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Susano! Wake Up! LINNNUUUXXX is ready!

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  3. Re:Automatix? Ugh by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet it still causes less damage to your system than Automatix.

  4. Huh? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The right-hand alt key is not configured... does anyone actually use the right-hand keys (alt, windows, menu context, ctrl, and shift)? I have never ever used that part of the keyboard.

  5. Re:My tip... by ZorinLynx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually like the name. It's playful and disarming.

    Though my favorite is still Fedora Core 6's code name, "Zod".

    "Kneel before Zod!"

    "Oh my god!" "Zod."

    Best villain ever, I still say.

  6. Re:if you are running a laptop you should not upgr by MagicM · · Score: 5, Funny

    And gluing a penny to the top of your PC lets you use imported software.

    It's true! Try it!

  7. Re:My tip... and I resent being labeled a troll... by CreatureComfort · · Score: 4, Funny


    Yeah, because it's so hard to figure out the proper versioning sequence of Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, and Feisty Fawn...

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    "Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
    Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
  8. Re:My tip... and I resent being labeled a troll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, because it's so hard to figure out the proper versioning sequence of Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, and Feisty Fawn... You forgot the upcoming release after this one: Gusty Gibbon.

      Wait a minute. Drake. Eft. Fawn. Gibbon. D, e, f, g... It's almost as if... as if starting with Dapper Drake, they had implemented some kind of diabolical, yet ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCE in their naming scheme! Good lord, but these Ubuntu chaps are clever!

      *shifty eyed glance*

      Too clever, by half, I say!
  9. Re:Grub UUID by HeroreV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your post only has four periods. One is in "7.04" and three form an ellipsis. Do you see the problem with that?