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  • 2 weeks later...

I put 6.10 back on my laptop and so far only gnome-terminal crashes daily :)

 

Fixed my ipw3945 not restarting after suspend doing the two scripts here:

 

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php...3945+%2Bsuspend

 

7 post down

 

/etc/acpi/suspend.d/07-networkmanager.sh

and

/etc/acpi/resume.d/63-networkmanager.sh

 

I even blogged it, since my blogging update skills are lacking.... ;)

 

http://justinconover.com/

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It looks nice, but I hate the way they enforce sudo on you, and not give you a root account that you can easily use "su" with.

 

I agree 100%! I used Ubuntu for about a year but eventually moved on as I felt it wasn't a 'proper' Linux distro.

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I've just been trying out Kubuntu (about a week), and I have no problems with things crashing. Firefox is fine, I got mine from the Mozilla/Firefox site and installed it manually. I find Kubuntu to be generally faster/more responsive than Mandriva, and in my gaming benchmark tests it halves the gap that was between Mandriva and XP (albeit a relatively small gap, but still)

 

Also 2 little problems I had been having with Mandriva ,

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=37298

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=37376

are non existent with Kubuntu.

 

I was going to try Ubuntu as well, but seeing how they are basically the same, except one being Gnome-centric and the other KDE-centric, and me prefering KDE, there's probably no point. Kubuntu was a very easy and straight forward install, everything worked out of the box, except for my [gasp] USB ADSL Modem [/gasp], but it didn't in Man2006 either, however as with Man2006, after finding the info it's a snap, a couple of minutes and your done. Would have been good if it set it up out of the box like Man2007 does though. All in all, I like what I have seen this time around with Kubuntu, relatively user friendly, as is Mandriva, and for an old brain dead Windows convert like myself, thats definitely a plus.

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It looks nice, but I hate the way they enforce sudo on you, and not give you a root account that you can easily use "su" with.

 

I agree 100%! I used Ubuntu for about a year but eventually moved on as I felt it wasn't a 'proper' Linux distro.

 

Totally BS statement! Ubuntu is a proper linux distro like every other distro out there. Some like sudo other do not that's fair and all about personal preferences, but stating it's not a proper linux distro is far out.

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Ubuntu is a proper linux distro but it is not suitable for everyone, just like any other distro. And that's fine by me.

 

Different tasks - different preferences - different solutions. ;)

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Thought I'd revive this. I'm on Ubuntu 7.04 and all OK, even using su instead of sudo, as I prefer this :P

 

Working good so far, except my SD card slot which is a pain in the arse. Worked OK with Mandriva 2007 and Debian Etch/Sid. Gotta figure out how to get it working, so just compiled a kernel to see if this helps.

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even using su instead of sudo

 

Is this easy to achieve? [Edit] Found it :)

 

Do you know if you can you have a terminal open in the pwd (gnome), ie, like hitting F4 in KDE and having the konsole open in the pwd

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Do you mean pwd as in present working directory? Or as in present working desktop? If directory, what directory you want it to open in?

 

Try System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts, you should be able to set something in there maybe.

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