Hello? Dual booting has been here for ages and has got to the point where it mostly works automagically and flawlessly. (Until you reinstall Windows. YMMV.)
If people want Linux because it's 1337er then get down and actually do the 1337 stuff!
Ok, that wasn't my first meet up with Linux. I had tried MANY live CDs of KDE3 based live distro which were cool to play with (I enjoyed Enigma) but took an entire day to customize and by the time I had it tweaked to my likings the day was over and I had to shut down the computer.
A few yearI tried Ubuntu 7.04 and saw Gnome. The first impression was negative: so little room for tinkering and configuration... then I realised that it actually a good thing, I just liked the look and feel of the desktop. However that wasn't enough yet.
Then I found out about this compiz thing... nice but not a deal sealer.
Finally I discovered apt. Oh My Holy God. That blew my socks off. A few weeks later I finally figured out how to resize the NTFS partition (for some reason gparted didn't want to help me) and installed it.
Now I use as much Windows (XP) as much Ubuntu (9.04 since alpha6). The ratio has been swinging, but each side of the dualboot has its perks and it's nice to be able to get the best of the two.
I have a three years old fan in non-optimal conditions and no thermal devices to tell the kernel to slow down.
I use the cpu governor applet as my lazy way to workaround this issue. However during the upgrade, a glitch in policy-tool disallowed/all/ users from changing it; programs gave weird error messages and did nothing. Upon completing the upgrade, everything was back to normal.
The applet was my first attempt of course. The command line command was my second. sudo was my third. Tinkering with policy-tool as root was my fourth.
I guess my fifth attempt should have been the refrigerator. >.<
I am sorry I wasn't clear enough. The problem is that my CPU will overheat and the computer will shutoff if the CPU runs at full blast for too long, which is exactly what happens with ondemand during a distro upgrade.
Yes. I'm sorry your little word isn't as shiny as mine (despite my 3 years old shiny little world has a 1.73 GHz CPU that shuts off when it goes at 1.73 GHz, a non-working firefox-3.0, a malfunctioning usplash, a gedit that doesn't quite like zsh, three failed updates, etc.), but my point is very simple.
If you want to run the latest and greatest software (and you want to run all the risks this takes) you may as well get it a bit sooner than the rest so that you can report bugs before the actual release, and so that you can help balance the network load... provided the thing boots after the release;)
During the 8.10 upgrade, at some point, the cpu frequency selector will get stuck on the "Ondemand" setting, which during an OS upgrade pretty much means "use all the speed the CPU can give".
On my computer, that meant having it shut off midway the upgrade as I raced to downclock it screaming at policy-tool getting in the way ("I AM &@%!ING ROOT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM NOT ALLOWED"). If you need downclocking too, be wary.
I didn't experience this on my 9.04 upgrade to Alpha 5.
I honestly suggest to upgrade when the RC is out (1). That's one week before the actual release date, or in other words Thursday. FYI, when I upgraded to the Alpha 6 I had to download 1.3 GBs; torrenting as much is still going to take a lot of time.
The Release Candidate is typically identical to the "gold" release; also you will help Canonical in testing everything runs as good as it should. If you install apt-p2p (2) you'll even get the warm fuzzy feeling of being a seed for the new packages.:D
The upgrade process is identical -- the only difference is in starting it. Hit Alt-F2 and use "update-manager -d" then hit "Upgrade".
(1) Or hell, upgrade/right now/. I'm using the beta and it is rather stable and experience tells me the beta is always pretty near to what goes gold. (2) I wouldn't use apt-p2p to upgrade to a dev version as you will find far less peers. However installing it afterwards should let you act as a seed for those packages.
2. It will run Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS/x so if you are going multi-platform on the PC it is the way to go. 3. It will run the Google Phone development stack and the Iphone/IPod stack.
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Hello? Dual booting has been here for ages and has got to the point where it mostly works automagically and flawlessly. (Until you reinstall Windows. YMMV.)
If people want Linux because it's 1337er then get down and actually do the 1337 stuff!
Sorry to break it to you, but Miro IS written in Python.
https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/browser/trunk/tv/portable
Actually I think I first met GNOME first on a Debian live CD.
Ok, that wasn't my first meet up with Linux. I had tried MANY live CDs of KDE3 based live distro which were cool to play with (I enjoyed Enigma) but took an entire day to customize and by the time I had it tweaked to my likings the day was over and I had to shut down the computer.
A few yearI tried Ubuntu 7.04 and saw Gnome. The first impression was negative: so little room for tinkering and configuration... then I realised that it actually a good thing, I just liked the look and feel of the desktop. However that wasn't enough yet.
Then I found out about this compiz thing... nice but not a deal sealer.
Finally I discovered apt. Oh My Holy God. That blew my socks off. A few weeks later I finally figured out how to resize the NTFS partition (for some reason gparted didn't want to help me) and installed it.
Now I use as much Windows (XP) as much Ubuntu (9.04 since alpha6). The ratio has been swinging, but each side of the dualboot has its perks and it's nice to be able to get the best of the two.
Have you ever heard about Firehose?
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl
j/k to choose an item, l to read it, vote up if it's good, vote down if it's not. Good items have better chances to turn into articles.
http://slashdot.org/faq/firehose.shtml
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any such setting in my BIOS.
Other than that, at times it's handy to be able to give short bursts of full speed when I really need it.
I have a three years old fan in non-optimal conditions and no thermal devices to tell the kernel to slow down.
/all/ users from changing it; programs gave weird error messages and did nothing. Upon completing the upgrade, everything was back to normal.
I use the cpu governor applet as my lazy way to workaround this issue. However during the upgrade, a glitch in policy-tool disallowed
(crossposted. Sorry for the multiple derails.)
The applet was my first attempt of course. The command line command was my second. sudo was my third. Tinkering with policy-tool as root was my fourth.
I guess my fifth attempt should have been the refrigerator. >.<
Typo: "provided the thing boots after the upgrade."
I am sorry I wasn't clear enough. The problem is that my CPU will overheat and the computer will shutoff if the CPU runs at full blast for too long, which is exactly what happens with ondemand during a distro upgrade.
Yes. I'm sorry your little word isn't as shiny as mine (despite my 3 years old shiny little world has a 1.73 GHz CPU that shuts off when it goes at 1.73 GHz, a non-working firefox-3.0, a malfunctioning usplash, a gedit that doesn't quite like zsh, three failed updates, etc.), but my point is very simple.
If you want to run the latest and greatest software (and you want to run all the risks this takes) you may as well get it a bit sooner than the rest so that you can report bugs before the actual release, and so that you can help balance the network load... provided the thing boots after the release ;)
During the 8.10 upgrade, at some point, the cpu frequency selector will get stuck on the "Ondemand" setting, which during an OS upgrade pretty much means "use all the speed the CPU can give".
On my computer, that meant having it shut off midway the upgrade as I raced to downclock it screaming at policy-tool getting in the way ("I AM &@%!ING ROOT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM NOT ALLOWED"). If you need downclocking too, be wary.
I didn't experience this on my 9.04 upgrade to Alpha 5.
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Agreed. 9.04 (Beta) feels way stabler than 8.10 (Beta), just like 8.04 (Beta) felt way stabler than 7.10 (Beta).
I honestly suggest to upgrade when the RC is out (1). That's one week before the actual release date, or in other words Thursday. FYI, when I upgraded to the Alpha 6 I had to download 1.3 GBs; torrenting as much is still going to take a lot of time.
The Release Candidate is typically identical to the "gold" release; also you will help Canonical in testing everything runs as good as it should. If you install apt-p2p (2) you'll even get the warm fuzzy feeling of being a seed for the new packages. :D
The upgrade process is identical -- the only difference is in starting it. Hit Alt-F2 and use "update-manager -d" then hit "Upgrade".
(1) Or hell, upgrade /right now/. I'm using the beta and it is rather stable and experience tells me the beta is always pretty near to what goes gold.
(2) I wouldn't use apt-p2p to upgrade to a dev version as you will find far less peers. However installing it afterwards should let you act as a seed for those packages.
In university, I've met so far four between professors and students using Apple laptops. Half of them had Linux installed on it.
Ubuntu is just like Ubuntu.
Whoosh...
Yes, but that wouldn't cover PAST sales.
Alas, apparently, Apple did register that copyright. RTFA, or rather the comments to it.
That's outdated. As a matter of fact, the latent hostility/diffidence/uneasyness has now fully shifted towards gypsies and (dark-skinned) immigrants.
Racism? No. Xenophobia? More like so.
2. It will run Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS/x so if you are going multi-platform on the PC it is the way to go.
3. It will run the Google Phone development stack and the Iphone/IPod stack.
Since when is vendor lock-in a feature?
What is the difference?
If the computer storing the game bits of code is based in the US, and he attacks it (hacks it), then he committed a crime under US law.
Do you really mean that Chinese people do not commit a crime by talking about "taboo topics" as long as they do that on US-based Blogspot?
The guy has undergone a trial in Germany already, and has been condemned already. What makes it fair for him to be charged twice for the same crime?
Last time I checked apt, aptitude, adept, synaptic, etc. run just fine without a browser.
As far as I know, Windows Vista has a rewritten TCP/IP stack.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/TCP-IP-Networking-Windows-Vista.html
On zsh you can even tab complete parameters.
Point taken.