Ubuntu: An Excellent Beginners Distro

Mpemba Effect · 5 Oct 2004 at 19:38

No idea mate

A P166 with 96mb ram won't run well. I'm impressed it even runs win2k, I thought win2k on celeron 433 and 128mb of ram was pretty dull.

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2004 at 22:13

Originally posted by marc2003
i'm also after a quick fix for the annoying window behaviour in nautilus. it's just like windows 95, opening a new window for each folder you open, answers on a postcard please... i've looked at the obvious options but can't find anything...

well a bit of googling and if you double click your middle mouse button/wheel it opens the folder in the same window. but this is awkward with my mouse.. and no toolbar with an 'up' button... a bit lame if you ask me

/me needs to find another file manager.

btw i used to run win2k on a p233 with 256mb ram. absolutely fine for browsing, music etc. more ram the better.

robmiller · 5 Oct 2004 at 22:36

You can use GTweakUI to turn off spatial file browsing

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2004 at 22:51

Originally posted by robmiller
You can use GTweakUI to turn off spatial file browsing

thanks.

i'll try that in the morning. currently in windows at the moment. :eek:

Mpemba Effect · 5 Oct 2004 at 23:05

Originally posted by marc2003
thanks.

i'll try that in the morning. currently in windows at the moment.

No need for GTweakUI

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=3357153#post3357153

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2004 at 23:24

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
No need for GTweakUI

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=3357153#post3357153

thought i read this thread all the way through...

obviously not.

but i seem to recall trying that and it launched another window, i probably closed it without looking properly...

edit: i feel i right numpty now. just tried that. exactly what i wanted.

Baloo · 7 Oct 2004 at 16:06

Anyone used the 64 bit version of this yet?

roozor · 7 Oct 2004 at 16:52

guys, im about to get ubuntu linux, do i just need to get the warty-a64.iso file , as i have an athlon 64 :O ?

Baloo · 7 Oct 2004 at 16:54

Originally posted by roozor
guys, im about to get ubuntu linux, do i just need to get the warty-a64.iso file , as i have an athlon 64 :O ?

Yes, seems like you'll be the first ubuntu A64 guinea pig

What mobo have you got BTW?

roozor · 7 Oct 2004 at 16:58

:O

!

I have a Soltek motherboard, which in the manual say it works with linux

SizEzE · 10 Oct 2004 at 14:58

Installing M$ Fonts :eek:

Firstly I

Code:

root@redbox:/home/simon # apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate

So I find that I need to edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to include the contrib section in your source entry. Which I did by unediting the last two sources. Then run the command and this happens

Code:

root@redbox:/home/simon # apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
W: Couldn't stat source package list [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com[/url] warty/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_warty_universe_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate

Any ideas?

Mpemba Effect · 10 Oct 2004 at 15:27

I don't think msttcorefonts is even in the ubuntu apt-get database. I've done some searches in synaptic and can't find the microsoft fonts. I've managed to install it by first using apt-get to install "cabextract" (a dependency of msttcorefonts) then I downloaded the debian package from - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/msttcorefonts.html - cd to the directory where you just downloaded the file and use dpkg to install it

Code:

dpkg -i msttcorefonts_1.1.11_all.deb

reboot or restart X and the fonts should be useable

dirtydog · 10 Oct 2004 at 15:54

The MS fonts are available from Synaptic

You need to add the Debian 'universe' repository sources:-

SizEzE · 10 Oct 2004 at 16:00

Many Thanks Mpemba Effect & dirtydog

All Fonts correct and present

Mpemba Effect · 10 Oct 2004 at 16:06

Good stuff dirtydog

See you're getting the hang of things, linux isn't so difficult to use once you know how

Oo_Scotty_oO · 10 Oct 2004 at 21:20

I'm very Interested in using this distro with me being a Linux Noob

, I gave up the last time i tried to use use linux (FC1) Due to the issues with Ati cards.

Will this Distro work with my x800xt ? or am i still gonna have the same probs installing as i had with FC1\9800pro ?

I am determined to get to grips with Linux if only i get over the inital hurdles

, Whats your thoughts guys ? Thanks

Mpemba Effect · 10 Oct 2004 at 21:24

All video cards will work in linux using the generic vesa driver. However you don't get any hardware acceleration. When you dabbled with linux previously the x800 proberbly wasn't even supported in the ATI propriatory drivers. Fortunately ATI seems to be getting there act together and releasing drivers more frequently. The latest ATI driver do support the x800

robmiller · 10 Oct 2004 at 21:32

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
The latest ATI driver do support the x800

However, it borks with the 9800s

Mine at least. I am the luckiest guy alive when it comes to Linux 3D accelleration.

Oo_Scotty_oO · 10 Oct 2004 at 21:35

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
All video cards will work in linux using the generic vesa driver. However you don't get any hardware acceleration. When you dabbled with linux previously the x800 proberbly wasn't even supported in the ATI propriatory drivers. Fortunately ATI seems to be getting there act together and releasing drivers more frequently. The latest ATI driver do support the x800

Thanks for your reply mate

, the problem i had before was when installing , i got so far then the system would just freeze & go no further

, so i gave up with the 9800pro/linux .

If i can at least get this distro installed , then great , i can always install the latest drivers later

.

Im gonna give it a try anyway

, will post back how i got on ,Cheers

Hades · 10 Oct 2004 at 22:17

I'm a bit of a SuSE fan. But I have to admit, my ideal distro would be Debian based, with a decent installer (text is fine, but Debians is a bit sparse), with apt and Gnome as a default.

...so that sounds just like Ubuntu. Downloading now