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hooray for ubuntu!

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:51 pm
by daedalus__
i finallly installed ubuntu on this laptop and im posting this message using it, i know you are just as excited as i am.

i have two questions now that i installed it..

how do i stop the mouse pad from simulating a mouse click when i tap it ( i really hate that and didnt see anything in mouse options)

does anyone recommend any reading, forums, websites, configuration, anything?

:)

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:03 pm
by Luke
Ubuntu Rules! They have an awesome forum on their website and there is a good wiki here:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy

Also if you do a search here for Ubuntu for posts/threads by me, you'll find a lot of good info because this community rocks and they helped me out when I was getting started.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:13 pm
by daedalus__
I can't believe I posted this in PHP - Code! Sorry, all the excitement made me forget to check which forum I was in. Could someone please move this?

This theme is kind of bright, btw. :/

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:02 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I so have to try Ubuntu. I am stuck on Fedora Core at the moment, but I think I might spread my wings a bit.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:21 pm
by feyd
Easy way to try it: virtualize! :)

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:44 pm
by Kieran Huggins
easier way: it's a live cd!

Incidentally, I ran across ubuntu as a server platform today in this interesting virtualization offering: http://www.slicehost.com/

What do you think? Will ubuntu be your next hosting platform?

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:00 pm
by feyd
It is for my home server. :)

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:18 pm
by daedalus__
I found this package manager thing, which is neat, and I'm in the process of getting a bunch of stuff, but I'm still trying to figure out how to get stuff as source and compile it, rofl.

I have no idea where an appropriate place to extract this archive would be.

I was also curious about how you guys get your beloved window's programs to work (photoshop, illustrator, trillian, etc), do you use Wine or something else?

I'm also curious about a good place to find theme's since I find the default one very bright and hard to look at. I was thinking about trying one of those new fangled 3d accelerated desktops, as well.


P.S. WHY DIDN"T I SWITCH SOONER?!

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:23 pm
by feyd
Photoshop :arrow: Gimp
Illustrator :arrow: can't remember
Trillian :arrow: gaim

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:31 pm
by Luke
the gimp is awesome... I don't miss photoshop at all.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:38 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Daedalus- wrote:I have no idea where an appropriate place to extract this archive would be.
What I did was make myself a directory somewhere (maybe in /usr or /tmp) and extract all my archives into that directory. Then install them from there. Typically the installation will automatically pick where it is going to go.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:48 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Illustrator :arrow: Inkscape

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:09 pm
by boo_lolly
ubuntu blows. 'nuff said. it's linux for people who are afraid of leaving windows, and poeple who REQUIRE a gui. in reality, you don't need a gui to run linux. and if you understand linux, you know that (practically) every program (including the gui) runs through the shell. try gentoo.

of course, every linux distribution can be made into another distribution... but using ubuntu, you'll never learn how to fully control all the power that is linux. it's dainty linux.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:16 pm
by brendandonhue
What exactly is wrong with running a GUI? (Besides that it's not l33t)

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:34 pm
by Luke
yea IMO that was a really lame couple of sentences, boo_lolly. Just because you "Don't need a GUI" to do something doesn't mean it's not nice to have one.