Comments on: Coolness of Ubuntu http://www.zen.org/2006/06/04/coolness-of-ubuntu/ The thoughts, ideas, habits, and interests of a sub-culture. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:18:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sven Heinicke http://www.zen.org/2006/06/04/coolness-of-ubuntu/#comment-18015 Sven Heinicke Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:04:42 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=544#comment-18015 Open Source can be a blessing and a curse. To stray a bit, closed source is just a curse. I've got a duel G5 as my desk top, and all it does for me for work is allow me to test my work in Safari. Mac X11 kept crashing, X11 on Virtual PC @#$%s up the mouse, I can't have one continous memory areas larger then 2G even with 4G of memory, the default Mac window manager has the motto of be user friendly my way or @#$% off. Plus it kills me that a Quicktime update requires a reboot. To continue, a UNIX style systems with case-insensitive files names can confuse CVS to no end. I do most of my work on a P3 running Debian via Chicken of the VNC. We are switiching some servers from MacOS X to Solaris, I wonder if I will have some Solaris bitches soon. What's good about the Mac? iTunes, and the Character Palette. Plus, unlike solaris, it comes with a rxvt terminfo entry. Open Source can be a blessing and a curse.

To stray a bit, closed source is just a curse. I’ve got a duel G5 as my desk top, and all it does for me for work is allow me to test my work in Safari. Mac X11 kept crashing, X11 on Virtual PC @#$%s up the mouse, I can’t have one continous memory areas larger then 2G even with 4G of memory, the default Mac window manager has the motto of be user friendly my way or @#$% off. Plus it kills me that a Quicktime update requires a reboot. To continue, a UNIX style systems with case-insensitive files names can confuse CVS to no end. I do most of my work on a P3 running Debian via Chicken of the VNC. We are switiching some servers from MacOS X to Solaris, I wonder if I will have some Solaris bitches soon.

What’s good about the Mac? iTunes, and the Character Palette. Plus, unlike solaris, it comes with a rxvt terminfo entry.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.zen.org/2006/06/04/coolness-of-ubuntu/#comment-18007 Patrick Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=544#comment-18007 OK. This is what gets me. The really cool features of XGL, Network Manager were developed by folks at Novell / SUSE (Rob Love and Dave Reveman. The powermanagement aka suspend and hibernate was part of a joint effort between SUSE and intel. Sadly all of the excitement has gone to Ubuntu. openSUSE 10.1 is rock solid, and has all of these features not to mention other cool Novell/SUSE apps like banshee, beagle and tomboy. Where's the love? OK. This is what gets me. The really cool features of XGL, Network Manager were developed by folks at Novell / SUSE (Rob Love and Dave Reveman. The powermanagement aka suspend and hibernate was part of a joint effort between SUSE and intel. Sadly all of the excitement has gone to Ubuntu. openSUSE 10.1 is rock solid, and has all of these features not to mention other cool Novell/SUSE apps like banshee, beagle and tomboy. Where’s the love?

]]> By: sven http://www.zen.org/2006/06/04/coolness-of-ubuntu/#comment-17979 sven Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:46:30 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=544#comment-17979 Brendan, maybe you should of tried Kubuntu instead. I'm even thinking about Xubuntu on my P2 laptop. Brendan, maybe you should of tried Kubuntu instead. I’m even thinking about Xubuntu on my P2 laptop.

]]> By: Tom Ranson http://www.zen.org/2006/06/04/coolness-of-ubuntu/#comment-17965 Tom Ranson Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:46:36 +0000 http://www.zen.org/?p=544#comment-17965 I have a TX1HP and have been so impressed with Dapper on it- been using Dapper since flight 2 with no major issues. A couple of annoyances though- - Volume up and down hard buttons on the front right do not work, although they do appear to alert the system when pressed. - It would be nice if the hard cd-rom eject button worked. - I continue to have interesting issues with OSS and ALSA sound levels- has anyone else esperienced this? I.e. not knowing which tract to use to control volume properly? - When instaling 6.06 LTS I have noticed that the screen goes blank about two thirds way through the install, and a couple of white artifacts appear on the screen- eventually the install finishes, but it does throw you a bit when you can't see whats going on. I never had this issue with flight 7 or before, but it did appear as soon as I installed 6.06 RC 1 as well as 6.06 LTS. I have a TX1HP and have been so impressed with Dapper on it- been using Dapper since flight 2 with no major issues.

A couple of annoyances though-

- Volume up and down hard buttons on the front right do not work, although they do appear to alert the system when pressed.

- It would be nice if the hard cd-rom eject button worked.

- I continue to have interesting issues with OSS and ALSA sound levels- has anyone else esperienced this? I.e. not knowing which tract to use to control volume properly?

- When instaling 6.06 LTS I have noticed that the screen goes blank about two thirds way through the install, and a couple of white artifacts appear on the screen- eventually the install finishes, but it does throw you a bit when you can’t see whats going on. I never had this issue with flight 7 or before, but it did appear as soon as I installed 6.06 RC 1 as well as 6.06 LTS.

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