stevenb

---- ubuntu.

FreeBSD > *

buk9tp

baller

just out of boredom and ------- with the settings.. now i got 6 desktops...

1. hmt/ebay/craigslist
2. email
3. music player/music folder
4. torrents
5. irc/download
6. aim


anyone else using beryl?

tips or pointers?

bout to find a suitible image to use for te background so its not just plain

USS

How do I get better resolution in Ubuntu?

It gives me a max size of like 800X600 or some other bullshit. I've got a pretty nice video card and a 19" LCD. I'm not that blind!

jinxy

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/ChangeResolution

Jorsher

sooooo...

other than the usual "m$ iz t3h g4y!!11" ... what's a reason for using something else?

Can I still stream to the 360?
Any sort of directx emulation?
How well does windows app emulation work?
Or should I still dual boot with windows (which would pretty much negate any reason to install linux)?
Will it read my ntfs partition that's only accessible by the windows admin?

jinxy

less bullshit, no spyware, no viruses, crazy ammounts of free, open source software available through the repositories


I've found ways to stream music and pictures, but not video.

you can run directx 9 on wine, its better to just play games on windows though.


there's a few different ways, you can run VMware and run a completley full version of windows under ubuntu, or you can use WINE and use it to emulate windows to run ---- like photoshop.



jep, without any work too.

Jorsher

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Guess I'll be installing it.

Ubuntu what you recommend? Another reason I haven't got linux is because of all the ------- distributions of it. I'll mostly be using it for media and interwebs of course, what's the fastest running and easiest to use, thats teh sex with lots of features...i'm guessing you two are biased towards ubuntu

USS

I know nothing on Linux and Ubuntu was easy to install/use. You just need to get used to the terminal commands, since everything isn't point and click.

Jorsher

i figured out how to use msdos pretty extensively when my computer was fubar

linux shouldn't be too difficult

ubuntu tonight

jinxy

If you install it, do it dual boot style. The latest version of ubuntu is fiesty fawn, which does a few things you had to do yourself on previous versions, like auto mounting NTFS drives. Also, ntfs drives are completley read/write now. Terminal is pretty easy, especially apt-get. It might kinda seem difficult at first but switching back to windows and fixing ---- on it gets agervating now because I'm used to be able to seeing why a program isn't functioning and not having to fight with the system to do certine things. Fiesty fawn also has an auto multiverse installer now that does flash/jre/mp3 format/most video codecs and a few other things in the repos now, its very handy compaired to what it was like to have to install all of those capabilities individualy. You might like kubuntu alittle better because you can make it look very windowsish.


Beryl can kind of be a bitch to install, but I walked buk through it so it cant be that bad :P

There's a few other distros that are nice, like fedora, but its a massive download. There might be a fedora live cd now, I'm not to up to date on that distro.