Comments on: New Ubuntu = awesome!

By: Valda Kirchberg

Valda Kirchberg — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:34:40 +0000

It is the lack of achievements which put me off from this. It’s my all time favorite gamse but it isn’t point in buying it again if i could just dust it off. Putting super easy achievements on a complicated game is just silly. I think a many of people will just maximise it in a single sitting and see basically nothing the game has to offer.

By: SigFLUP

SigFLUP — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:25:40 +0000

Hey Leigh, this is SigFLUP from BlockParty/NOTaCON. I don’t know if you remember me. Raging apologies about this not being related to your post BUT… are you coming to @party?

By: phoenix

phoenix — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:47:06 +0000

I recently dug out an old IBM Thinkpad R50, previously mothballed for about 5 years due to a failed hdd. Since my backup lappy had just died, time to rehab the R50 with something new.

Following upgrades to hdd (dead 30gb out, new 160gb in), RAM (old 512 out, new 2GB in), and added proper internal 802.11g card, decided to make it a dual-boot machine. Corporate version of XP still has its uses, and was a freebie anyway.

Install of XP, from CD-in to final patch: Approx 4 hrs. Tack on another 2 hrs for assorted browsers, firewalls, extra gizmos and such, to total near 6.

Install of Koala, from CD-in through all updates to the last gadget/gizmo/toy/utility I could want from the software center? 1 hour 48 min.

This is the first release of Ubuntu that I’m comfortable with as a daily driver. Found every piece of hardware on the R50 without having to crack open NDISwrapper. Help files are bonehead-simple yet instructive.

Big fat kudos to the dev team.

By: Tikka Nagi

Tikka Nagi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:19:59 +0000

My upgrade went smoothly except that Oracle stopped working. Oracle was throwing the error ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment during boot. After a bit of Googling it appears that it may have something to do with the kernel options. The solution provided here

http://www.randombugs.com/linux/ora-27125-unable-to-create-shared-memory-segment.html

woks like a charm.

By: Leigh Honeywell

Leigh Honeywell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:15 +0000

haha, you know VMware is free now eh :p

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:34 +0000

Totally agreed with Whitney… I don’t know when you last used VirtualBox, but these days it’s totally dynamite! I just installed it for the first time and I’m completely blown away. It’s fast, efficient, powerful and has tons of great features. I can’t even be bothered to steal VMware anymore :)

By: Whitney

Whitney — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:31:31 +0000

I am not a huge fan of Ubuntu… no particular hatred for it, but my allegiances have always been with Red Hat/Fedora :) I might have to try it out on a VM. Which leads me to the whole purpose for leaving this comment–I don’t know when the last time you used VirtualBox was, and I don’t know what you are using it for specifically, but I LOVE VBox. I’ve never had a problem with it and the most recent release has worked flawlessly for me with several (like 5 or 6) distros of Linux. It is especially fantastic while using Guest Additions and seamless mode for Windows. I haven’t tried Windows 7 yet, however.

Woo!

By: Mozai

Mozai — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:48:44 +0000

Sadly, my experience was not the same — upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 dumped my video driver, and the failure mode for 9.10’s X windows during bootup is to keep trying to restart it every 1/3 of a second or more, which left me spamming Ctrl-Alt-F1 for a few minutes (handcramp!) in the hopes of getting a text terminal so I could fix things. This would’ve terrified anyone used to Apple or M$ Windows.
I also had the newer apparmor feature “protect” my system from running the DHCP client at /sbin/dhclient — I needed Google to help me figure that one out, but no net connection means I needed a second computer to fix it.

Still, at least I *could* fix these on my own, instead of being locked out and S. Outta L. until Service Pack 1 or the next catgirl-themed release.

By: Leigh Honeywell (hypatiadotca) 's status on Tuesday, 03-Nov-09 00:20:51 UTC - Identi.ca

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:58 +0000

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