Comments on: Spawn of Ubuntu http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/ Open Source, Open Standards Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Ken Hess http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1391 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:04:59 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1391 You're right, there is an error in that apt-get. It should be apt-get <B>install</B> linux-image-2.6.18-5-686. Sorry about that. You’re right, there is an error in that apt-get. It should be apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-5-686.

Sorry about that.

]]> by: jgfuller http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1232 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:23:21 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1232 Not a Linux expert at all. Windows user. Using Ubuntu installed with Wubi. Lets me access my Windows files, network, and printer, without any problems with partitioning or redefining the Windows files as FAT [which I understand is needed in a dual-boot, separate partition environment]. If the Ubuntu-derivatives had a Wubi-type installer, they might be more attractive to a Windows user. Just a thought. Not a Linux expert at all. Windows user. Using Ubuntu installed with Wubi. Lets me access my Windows files, network, and printer, without any problems with partitioning or redefining the Windows files as FAT [which I understand is needed in a dual-boot, separate partition environment]. If the Ubuntu-derivatives had a Wubi-type installer, they might be more attractive to a Windows user. Just a thought.

]]> by: chioma http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1211 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:16:27 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1211 i have not use linspire before to no what the installation of freespire will lok like but the user interface is very ok. but what do.mean by bleeding edge technology which makes it more stable the installation command for gos in not correect but interface is quite intresting and do you mean by menu list i have not use linspire before to no what the installation of freespire will lok like but the user interface is very ok. but what do.mean by bleeding edge technology which makes it more stable

the installation command for gos in not correect but interface is quite intresting and do you mean by menu list

]]> by: slyscafe http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1208 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:37:55 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1208 I have used gOS Linux and now refer to it as pOS linux. I just couldn't find anything I liked about it other than that nice handy bar they give you at the bottom (which I can get with gDesklets). I really love top and bottom panels, gOS didn't have what I liked. I guess if you're a casual computer user, then gOS would be alright, but it looks feels a lot like OS X. I have used gOS Linux and now refer to it as pOS linux. I just couldn’t find anything I liked about it other than that nice handy bar they give you at the bottom (which I can get with gDesklets).

I really love top and bottom panels, gOS didn’t have what I liked.

I guess if you’re a casual computer user, then gOS would be alright, but it looks feels a lot like OS X.

]]> by: Jan Hansen http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1177 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:29:09 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1177 But you're not going to let on what that error is? How inscrutable! But you’re not going to let on what that error is? How inscrutable!

]]> by: unclesmrgol http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1175 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:14:21 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1175 Here's the correction for above-mentioned error: apt-get update apt-get <b>install</b> linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 I have no idea what menu-normal.lst is, but if it's a replacement for menu.lst, you don't want to remove the low-latency non-virtual configuration -- you want to duplicate it below the low-latency menu entry and modify the dupe to reference your new non-low-latency replacement, thus having both be in the grub menu. Good sysadmins don't ever destroy something that works before making sure that the new thing works better. To that end. making a copy of menu-normal.lst (say, to menu-normal.lst.orig) may help you out tremendously if you make a mistake. Also, if you modify menu-normal.lst, make sure you make a backup of it, because normal system maintenance (such as applying a new kernel from the manufacturer) may destroy your changes; you want to store them someplace where you can put them back. I fight this little battle with Ubuntu all the time, since Ubuntu insists it's on hd1 when it's really on hd0. Here’s the correction for above-mentioned error:

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-5-686

I have no idea what menu-normal.lst is, but if it’s a replacement for menu.lst, you don’t want to remove the low-latency non-virtual configuration — you want to duplicate it below the low-latency menu entry and modify the dupe to reference your new non-low-latency replacement, thus having both be in the grub menu. Good sysadmins don’t ever destroy something that works before making sure that the new thing works better. To that end. making a copy of menu-normal.lst (say, to menu-normal.lst.orig) may help you out tremendously if you make a mistake. Also, if you modify menu-normal.lst, make sure you make a backup of it, because normal system maintenance (such as applying a new kernel from the manufacturer) may destroy your changes; you want to store them someplace where you can put them back. I fight this little battle with Ubuntu all the time, since Ubuntu insists it’s on hd1 when it’s really on hd0.

]]> by: Marcin Owsiany http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1171 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:37:56 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200/#comment-1171 You have an error in the apt-get command there.. You have an error in the apt-get command there..

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