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From: Joerg on 30 Jan 2010 18:07 JeffM wrote: > Tim Watts wrote: >> pretty much anything available for any Linux >> will work with Ubuntu. The thing with Ubuntu >> (and debian) is that that package >> is *likely* to be integrated into the main repositories >> so installing it is no more difficult than >> >> apt-get install yourfavouriteproggy >> >> (or do the very same through the GUI). >> > I'm remembering Joerg grousing about an app he wanted > (more than just one??) that wasn't packaged for his distro. Actually, it was different. I tried out Ubuntu (still have it) and found that I did not like the directory writing privileges for non-sudo status. Plus I thought that Tux looked too jaundiced ;-) The only app I was interested was gEDA but it has too many shortcomings for my work so I'll stick with Cadsoft Eagle for now. Installation of apps is actually rather easy in Ubuntu-Linux. If you want to you can click a little check box in Synaptics and that's it. [...] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: JeffM on 30 Jan 2010 21:42 >JeffM wrote: >>I'm remembering Joerg grousing about an app he wanted >>(more than just one??) that wasn't packaged for his distro. >> Joerg wrote: >Actually, it was different. > I'm remembering the circumstances but can't connect the proper person to it. >I tried out Ubuntu (still have it) and found that >I did not like the directory writing privileges for non-sudo status. > This is kinda like Right-click; untick Read-only: http://google.com/search?q=intitle:chmod+%22+sudo.chmod.777&lr=lang_en Does that get you closer? >Plus I thought that Tux looked too jaundiced ;-) > You just dip him in some Easter egg dye and http://google.com/images?q=Tux+Linux-Mint >The only app I was interested [in] was gEDA >but it has too many shortcomings for my work > Careful. DJ might be lurking and show you 42 ways you're wrong. >so I'll stick with Cadsoft Eagle for now. > Horses for courses. >Installation of apps is actually rather easy in Ubuntu-Linux. >If you want to you can click a little check box in [Synaptic] >and that's it. > Windoze users watch Linux package managers in action and their jaws drop. That you can actually USE Linux while it's installing stuff just blows them away. Not having to reboot for the slightest thing is the final topper.
From: JosephKK on 31 Jan 2010 00:05 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:30:13 -0800 (PST), MooseFET <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote: >On Jan 29, 8:09 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >[....] >> >> Unless you are into eye heroin (candy) i would not bother with it. Plasma >> and compiz are rather well known to be rather buggy. > >I ran SuSE with Plasma just long enough to discover what a complete >pigs breakfast >it is. I found nothing about it better than the KDE3 that came with >older versions >and many things that we messed up. > >Lately I have become a bit of a fan of JWM for its lightness of weight >and simple >way of getting everything to do what it should. I may have to try that one.
From: JosephKK on 31 Jan 2010 00:14 On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:10:07 -0800 (PST), "miso(a)sushi.com" <miso(a)sushi.com> wrote: >On Jan 29, 8:31 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:54 +0000, Baron <baron.nos...(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: >> >AndyS Inscribed thus: >> >> >> Andy asks: >> >> >> I am considering switching from WINDOWS to UBUNTU, which is a >> >> Linnux >> >> based operating system. >> >> >> Has anyone here had any experience with it or have any pointers >> >> that >> >> I should be aware of ?? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> AndyS W4OAH >> >> >Ubuntu makes easy things hard. Try others before making a firm choice. >> >Open SuSE <www.opensuse.org/en> >> >Live CD's and full install DVD. >> >Though my personal preference is version 11.0 with KDE3.5 desktop. >> >> My poised to be next production machine is OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 3.5 DE. >> KDE 4 is still not ready for prime time and is way too eye heroin (candy) >> oriented. > >I've got open suse 11.2 with kde 4.3.1. No issues. Good for >engineering, but for multimedia, you often spend a long time getting >all the needed libraries. I started to load XBMC, but it's turning out >to be a bear of a job. [I have vorbis, but it can't find it. Argh!] >Myth was trivial by comparison. But for science and electronics, >opensuse works well. > >I run into particle accelerator employees at a local coffee shop (no, >really). They run a version of linux from CERN. >http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific.shtml So do you have a version of gEDA/GAF running on your Suse 11.2? If your hardware is supported and your user requirements are not too unreasonable you could try the relevant newsgroup echoes of the OpenSuse forums. e.g. OpenSuse.org.help.multimedia hosted by Novell/OpenSuse.org.
From: Gerhard Hoffmann on 31 Jan 2010 08:25
JeffM wrote: > > Windoze users watch Linux package managers in action > and their jaws drop. > That you can actually USE Linux while it's installing stuff > just blows them away. > Not having to reboot for the slightest thing is the final topper. "Windows has detected that you have moved your mouse. Please reboot so that the change can come into effect" Gerhard |