Comments on: New Ubuntu = awesome! http://hypatia.ca/2009/11/new-ubuntu-awesome/ Leigh Honeywell's Blog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leigh Honeywell http://hypatia.ca/2009/11/new-ubuntu-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 Leigh Honeywell Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:15 +0000 http://hypatia.ca/?p=171#comment-1216 haha, you know VMware is free now eh :p haha, you know VMware is free now eh :p

]]> By: Mark http://hypatia.ca/2009/11/new-ubuntu-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 Mark Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:54:34 +0000 http://hypatia.ca/?p=171#comment-1215 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 :) 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 http://hypatia.ca/2009/11/new-ubuntu-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-1157 Whitney Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:31:31 +0000 http://hypatia.ca/?p=171#comment-1157 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! 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 http://hypatia.ca/2009/11/new-ubuntu-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Mozai Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:48:44 +0000 http://hypatia.ca/?p=171#comment-1154 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. 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.

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