Ubuntu 9.10 is out

[Proto]

It may not be necessary under normal usage, however any heavy RAM hitters (vritualization software) will go over the 1.5 mark for sure. It's always better to have some so you don't have processes dying on you or having your system going slow for no reason... well then again if you are having problems already without adding a swap partition oyu may want to put it off for the time being.

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[Lasnap]

nanaya may i reccomend trying out pclos sence it comes in many flavors like kde and gnome and i know for a fact they are all being worked on constantly and if you have any problems to check the boards and if its not there go ahead and post and eaither texstar or the people working on gnome will help you out quite quickly. same goes for you sil if you really wanna try out linux for a while.

[nanaya]

Yehh, finally tried Xfce flavor of ubuntu which is IMO the best out of the three big DE, it's light, fast, and straightforward. Gnome is too stiff and KDE is a mess.

And thus that conclude my adventure on Linux this year, and no I don't think it is ready to topple windows as de facto of average consumer OS, at least this or next year (though I've heard they will since my first experience with Linux years ago).

Originally Posted by Lasnap

nanaya may i reccomend trying out pclos sence it comes in many flavors like kde and gnome and i know for a fact they are all being worked on constantly and if you have any problems to check the boards and if its not there go ahead and post and eaither texstar or the people working on gnome will help you out quite quickly. same goes for you sil if you really wanna try out linux for a while.

Thanks, I've had that distro in the past and true it was great experience... with SiS chipset, I'm not too sure with ATi.
Funny thing is that years old SiS system does Linux better than my new ATi machine which failed to even boot into live cd of some distro.
I guess what they say about Linux works great on older computer hold true.

[GCFreak]

I've been on the Linux camp for quite a few years now. Soon enough I plan to wipe all my disks and tri-boot Windows 7 (mainly for testing stuff I develop and to administer my home's Samba domain), Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12. My server will always run CentOS, easily the best server operating system available.

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[RedLion]

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

Is this new GRUB version less intrusive then the previous? I really hate GRUB, even if you hibernate your Windows install and then resume, GRUB still asks you to choose an OS (it only continues to resume if you choose Windows, otherwise it'll boot into Linux by default).

Grub is easily configurable to avoid this problem. You can make it choose windows by default in the OS selection.

[DinJerr]

Okay, I gotta warn that the Gnome desktop's network configurator sucks. I was trying to get my WiFi adaptor to connect to my router but constantly failed (without even giving a proper feedback at all, wtf Gnome?). I read that WEP might be the problem, but switching to WPA still didn't allow me connect. Turns out, there are a whole bunch of options missing from the configurator, like whether to use AES or TKIP for WPA and so forth. Using Network Manager tools would probably solve this matter, but well, I'm a fan of apt-install, and to do that I'd need the Internet. D'oh.

In the end, just manually set everything in the network config files and it connects on boot, but I don't have the handy wireless connection status icon on the taskbar. Sad. I'm guessing Kubuntu has the better tools... but I'd like to stick with Compiz on Gnome. Ho well.

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[nonoitall]

You might try replacing NetworkManager with WICD. It's a little lighter, but seems a lot more configurable to me. I usually do a minimal install of Ubuntu and install LXDE or XFCE, so I always skip NetworkManager in favor of WICD.

[BigIg]

Out of curiosity I tried to install it on a spare HDD I have laying around, but once the installation gets past the blinking ubuntu logo it just goes to a blank screen. Lovely.

So much for the easiest linux distro eh?

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[gamefreak94]

For me, Xubuntu picked up the drivers for my laptop's WiFi adapter automatically and connected to my router without problems when trying the live CD.

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