well when i first began using Ubuntu and gnome it was Hardy? It provided system tools to change GDM and Xslpash from the pull down system menu. All one had to do was to goto gnome-look and grab something they liked and install it using the GUI.
What i had trouble was getting gnome to play certain music in one player and certain ones in another. But now there’s Ubuntu Tweak, is no longer a problem.
Ubuntu != Linux.
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/?cat=4
The Linux action show podcasts/livecast/video show
I really enjoy these guys, especially on their takes on the linux related mobile devices.
I think on the most part their review on distros aren’t in depth enough. Mostly I get the impression that their distro review focuses heavily on UI and out of the box experience. But sometimes I guess there really aren’t that big of a difference.
Their openSUSE review had some guy over reviewer power consumption, and thermals. That was wonderful, and I wish they make that a standard part of their distro review. If they throw in out of the box memory consumption and CPU usage that probably would be even better.
But I get a kick out of their mobile device linux related conversations anyway. And a little freaked out by ad filled future that Microsoft/Apple/google all are trying to push…
I think the correct sign is Ubuntu ? Linux
What?
(damn 10 character minimum)
i did the subset sign, but the forum still haven’t recovered its unicode capability.
Ahh, that certainly makes sense then 
Speaking of Ubuntu, the 11.04 release has been named. “Natty Narwhal”. Ugh. Srsly? If only Ubuntu spent as much time on keeping their packages up-to-date between releases as they did with naming the releases.
I suspect Shuttleworth is the only one making the decision on the names.
I like Narwhal though, even though it sounds weird, but the animal is pretty cool… don’t really know what to say about natty… that’s just plain weird.
personally i would prefer Ubunto 10.10 Naked Narwhal. Because that is just the fact.
Shuttleworth seems to be going for more obscure (or even mythical) animals in the last couple years. Recently they’ve named releases after the ibex, jackalope, and lynx, and now the narwhal. I have a feeling 11.10 will be named after something weird like the osprey. Or maybe the ocelot.
both are beautiful animals actually. owl, otter, octapus… those probably are too obvious. if it is the orangutan it’d be too silly.
as long as the first word isn’t weird like natty… 11.04 might be ok…
11.10 for Platypus?
well, these linux distro naming tradition are actually kind of fun. Android had a couple of good ones. Even though people didn’t like Froyo, i liked it. The next release Gingerbread sounds silly. I love gingerbread, 3 syllables doesn’t jive with previous version names.
by the way, the Linux Action Show podcast had some great discussions on the Apple and Oracle suing google and Android phone manufacturers situation. I think Oracle is suing for violating java patents… some of the patents listed seems pretty board. along with the open source codecs being accused of patten violation, it seems like companies are gunning for big name backed open source projects now.
12.04 would be P, not 11.10.
10.04 = Lucid Lynx
10.10 = Maverick Meerkat
11.04 = Natty Narwhal
11.10 = Ostentatious Ocelot (???)
Fedora has an interesting naming scheme as well. Each release name has some obscure tie to the previous one.
Release names are fun I guess, but I much prefer the rolling-release style of distros such as Arch, Gentoo, Sabayon (which is Gentoo-based), PCLinuxOS, and Foresight. I haven’t once done an Ubuntu dist-upgrade that didn’t break something. I personally don’t like to reinstall every time a new release comes out, in order to ensure nothing is broken.
i don’t like the reinstall process either. but i do notice things starting to get messed up as i compile packages out of the repository. sometimes it gets to the point that i had to reinstall to fix what ever was broken…
When you say “compile packages out of the repository”, what exactly do you mean? Do you mean recompiling packages, or building projects that don’t have packages and manually installing them using “make install”?
KDE 4.5 just hit the official Arch Linux repositories. I’ve had about half an hour to play around with it, and so far I love it. Even better GTK+ integration, loads faster, runs faster.
I was personally hoping for gelato, but I suppose that’s too similar to froyo. Maybe after honeycomb is released we can have ice cream?
yeah, gelato sounds great… instead of honeycomb, how about some Halo-halo…
as for KDE 4.5, i am going to try it with openSUSE.
Be forewarned, I’ve noticed a bug or two. One involves changing certain appearance settings in the System Settings control panel. I found a nifty way to lock up my X session at will by altering the window shadow settings. Luckily I use screen for all my terminal-based work so I was able to drop into another virtual terminal and kill my X session, then log back in and resume working in my screen session.
GNU Screen is awesome.
EDIT: I’ve only been able to reproduce that bug on my netbook. Maybe it only affects intel video cards. I’ve got 3 other machines running Arch, and none of them have had this problem since the upgrade. 2 are nVidia, and the other is gag ATI. The netbook is the only one with an intel card. Just speculating.
If anyone is interested… and have a copy of the Linux kernel code or Android source code with them… try running this:
$ find -name “*.[chS(cpp)]” | xargs grep -i -n fuck
you’d be suprised that the linux kernel is rated R 
also, it gives you a good general idea of what is a crappy job for engineers… naming, writing drivers.
also, the extreme unlikelihood of anyone reading the source…
with all the shit and giggles in the kernel, i think it might be worth reading. some people seems to actually treat the kernel comments like a forum…
some examples… (from the crap search instead of the f word or the s word, so less colorful)
arch/mips/pci/fixup-ip32.c:40: * right if there exists such a broken piece of crap.
sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:382: // FIXME: get rid of this crap.
sound/pci/maestro3.c:365:/* XXX fix this crap up /
sound/aoa/soundbus/i2sbus/core.c:251: * useless crap (ugh ugh ugh). We work around that here by calling
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_daq_700.c:439:/ PCMCIA crap – watch your words, please! /
drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c:507: default:/ gcc oh piece-o-crap … /
drivers/char/ip2/i2ellis.c:545:// !!! Not Used, this is DOS crap, some of you young folks may be interested in
crypto/algboss.c:245: / This piece of crap needs to disappear into per-type test hooks. */
linux/autoconf.h:12:#ifndef LINUX_AUTOCONF_CRAP_GOES_HERE