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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. huh? by otacon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Matthew Newton, a columnist at PC World, has a great up on seven things you'll want to change as soon as you start using Feisty Fawn. What is a 'great up'? Is that some new hip bastardization of english?
    --
    In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
  2. Re:My tip... and I resent being labeled a troll... by gmezero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because I didn't get any sleep last night doing work building a PHP based video repository system front end that I'm hoping to tie into LDAP at somepoint for a security layer.... in the last hour I've finally hit my silly zone though and I really I should go home and get some sleep but then I would be missing my 9-5 work hours. Blah!

  3. Re:Linux: Not There Yet by Shadowfoxmi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FYI: it is spelled thingy not thingie

  4. Re:My tip... by Petrushka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux Mint. An Ubuntu based distro that uses French female release names.

    Hmm, maybe you could pass on the message to them that "Bianca" is Italian and "Casandra" Spanish ... just in case they don't know.