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« on: October 20, 2006, 11:16:11 AM »

I'm thinkng of changing my new ThinkPad over to Ubuntu once the new distro (Edgy) comes out. It's supposed to have better WPA support and really fast boot up times for older machines.

Anyone here running Ubuntu or any other distro? If yes, feel free to share. And shave your neckbeard too.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2006, 05:04:04 PM »

I fooled around with a Dapper Drake livecd for a bit, but XP Pro's still my standard OS. Unbuntu sure has improved driver support and installation though,  especially compared to my experiences with Mandrake and Debian
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2006, 01:46:26 AM »

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/609

Yay. Doing this tomorrow. Will post results.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 11:41:02 PM »

I am happily using Kubuntu for almost a month now.
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 11:48:33 PM »

Quote from: "Alex"
I am happily using Kubuntu for almost a month now.


Any luck on WOW?
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2007, 12:08:00 AM »

Yeah I got it working perfectly.
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2007, 12:10:22 AM »

He did, I can vouch for that. Burning crusade goes from sounding like some kind of High Fantasy STD to a beautifal tapestry of color and sound.

Most of that is not sarcastic.
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2007, 02:31:37 AM »

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Yeah I got it working perfectly.


So what do you like most about using Kubuntu?
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« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2007, 12:21:08 AM »

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Yeah I got it working perfectly.



You didn't get shit working perfectly.  me and steev got that shit working.  I will slaughter you.
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2007, 02:43:06 PM »

I've been using Kubuntu as my primary OS for several months now. It's great.
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2007, 02:44:59 PM »

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I've been using Kubuntu as my primary OS for several months now. It's great.


DO you run a lot of stuff in WINE?
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2007, 02:49:23 PM »

Only WoW when I still played, and now Counterstrike:source. Everything else is native.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2007, 03:02:54 PM »

Used any other distros before Ubuntu?
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2007, 03:06:05 PM »

I used Red Hat back when it was called Red Hat. 7, I think? I gave it a try as Fedora, too...

I had a Gentoo install for a few days. I'm thinking about giving it another shot soon. I've also used Knoppix and Slackware at different times in my life...

In my opinion, it's either a Debian based distro or Gentoo. I can't deal with Red Hat anymore, or any distro that doesn't have a package manager. Too much effort for no good reason.
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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2007, 03:11:28 PM »

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I used Red Hat back when it was called Red Hat. 7, I think? I gave it a try as Fedora, too...

I had a Gentoo install for a few days. I'm thinking about giving it another shot soon. I've also used Knoppix and Slackware at different times in my life...

In my opinion, it's either a Debian based distro or Gentoo. I can't deal with Red Hat anymore, or any distro that doesn't have a package manager. Too much effort for no good reason.


Ever have to deal with any BSD's?
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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2007, 03:24:03 PM »

I have a NetBSD disc lying around here somewhere. Other than MacOS X's BSD-compatibility-layer business, I haven't had much experience with BSDs.
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« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2007, 03:52:26 PM »

Anyone ever use Xubuntu?
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2007, 09:00:37 PM »

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Anyone ever use Xubuntu?


Now posting from Xubuntu.  Cool

All hardware detected on startup. The toned down window manager is running very nicely on my low end laptop. I am very happy. Now to configure this baby to work on PittNet.
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« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2007, 01:24:56 PM »

oh em gee new ubuntu out: feisty fawn.

Give it a try.
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