I've been using, or attempting to use, a Linux system since 2003 or so. It may have been earlier even as my first system was Ark-Linux and then I attempted to work thru the complexities of SUSE Linux 8.2.
I am now successfully using Ubuntu 8.04 and started out with Ubuntu's first release of Breezy Badger, I think it was!
I am interested in participating in this forum and using its many howto's and hints.
My actual name is Richard or Rick, but when it came to Linux I had to try it and thus I now tell people that they "gottatrieit", too! :)
I'm a Linux-user, 14 years old and I come from Sweden. I've been using Linux since October 2008. Currently I'm using Debian on my servers, Ubuntu on my desktop and Arch in my school. I joined this forum because of its name.
After a long time of using Kubuntu on this particular machine, that particular Kubuntu installation got abandoned as I tended to use other machines (simply due to issues with physical space on my desk). I now have a new desk and this machine could come back into more regular service again.
Of course, having been abandoned for several months, the Kubuntu release was out of date, needed many software updates and was generally pretty poorly configured with lots of stuff I didn't want. I also never really got into KDE 4 -- on this machine it felt sluggish and not at all a better experience that KDE 3.5 was.
I was thinking of going to straight Ubuntu as a clean install, but actually settled on Linux Mint. It's based on Ubuntu, but the 'Main' version ships with a lot of proprietary drivers, codecs and other software that I would otherwise want to add post-install anyway, so it seemed to be a good idea to save time configuring.
It automatically detected and enabled the 3D drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3650 card, drives the 23" monitor at its native 1920x1080, ships with Flash and Sun Java and the codecs for H.264/AAC playback too. Nice! Pretty much the only thing I post-added were msttcorefonts for prettier web browsing.
So, enough talk, here are the screenshots of my new Linux Mint 8 "Helena" setup.
Used instead of Ubuntu's Applications / Places / System menu at the top, I think similar to that used in SUSE? A bit Windows-like, but actually I like this menu.
Let me know if you want to see anything else part of Linux Mint. Not sure of anything else that is particularly unique to this distro, but, again, let me know and I'll take another screenshot.
Well, this is a welcome surprise for those of us waiting for Ubuntu 10.04, the Lucid Lynx. Several users are reporting that their iPod Touches and iPhones (including the 3GS) work in alpha 3 - without tweaking, without jailbreaking, without patching - with Nautilus and Rythmbox.
Several users have reported that upon installing the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, their iPod Touches and iPhones are recognised by the operating system. You can browse your iPhone/iPod with the file manager, and Rythmbox can work with them as well.
It appears - please correct me if I'm wrong - that this support comes courtesy of GVFS supporting libiphone, combined with iFuse. iFuse is a FUSE file system driver that connects to your iPod Touch/iPhone through libiphone, using Apple's native AFC protocol (so no ssh or other complicated nonsense). No jailbreaking needed, no patching, no nothing.
Posted by: anyweb - 2010-02-26, 06:17 AM - Forum: Linux News
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GNOME Shell is the new core user interface for GNOME 3. GNOME Shell 2.29.0 brings a lot of new features and improvements, the most noticeable being a new message tray showing notifications sliding into the bottom of the screen, a status area for past notifications, the ability to set your presence to the user status menu, switching the overview between a grid and linear view of workspaces.
Posted by: anyweb - 2010-02-26, 06:14 AM - Forum: Linux News
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Linux 2.6.33 has been released. This version features Nouveau, Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), TCP "cookie transactions", a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff), support for cache compression and other improvements. See the full changelog here.
Posted by: anyweb - 2010-02-25, 06:57 PM - Forum: Linux News
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Henne Vogelsang has announced the second milestone release on openSUSE's journey to version 11.3: "Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. While milestone 1 introduced various pre-release versions of free and open source projects (KDE 4.4 RC1, OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta 4 or VirtualBox 3.1 beta 1) into our development distribution openSUSE Factory, this milestone is characterized by final releases of those projects. We are also preparing everything to switch to GCC 4.5.0 as the default compiler." Check the release announcement to read about the detailed changes that happened in the various areas. Download the installable live CD images from the mirrors:
Posted by: anyweb - 2010-02-25, 06:50 PM - Forum: Linux News
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Broadcom demonstrated an Android-ready tablet design that offers video-conferencing and DLNA streaming to IP set-top boxes and HDTVs. The Persona Tablet is equipped with a BCM11211 VoIP processor, coprocessors including one or two BCM11181 chips, and can process simultaneous 720p video streams, says the company....
