I am relatively sure I am running 64-bit Ubuntu (uname -a returns "Linux andrew-laptop 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux") and I'm running Flash and WINE from the repositories without any problems.
Synaptic tells me WINE is in "Universe". I can't remember which are enabled by default, but I have a suspicion it may just be "Main".
EDIT: System -> Administration -> Synaptic
then
Settings -> Repositories, then the "Ubuntu Software" tab. I have Main, Universe, Restricted and Multiverse enabled. Also the Opera repository and the Partner repository that I added myself.
If you want the latest release of WINE, you should really get it from the WINE repository. Go to "Software Sources" in the Administration menu and add "ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa". Then download the wine1.3 package.
Anyway, WINE should work on 64-bit Ubuntu, but it doesn't run 64-bit Windows applications yet.
Quick question for people more knowledgeable than me (probably everyone). Are there power management settings in ubuntu (9.1) for devices? Specifically the NIC?
This depends on your wireless driver, though many mobile NIC drivers do have an option to disable the device.
And it just occurred to me that XP is the only non-OSS software I still use. It would be trivial for me to switch to Linux if I were compelled to do so by Microsoft deciding to enforce some onerous interpretation of the EULA.
Everything else has a Linux port or runs great in WINE.
edit: Though I do use PS CS1. GIMP is a suitable stand-in if necessary though.
So I'm interested in trying out linux for the first time. I currently have a Gateway M laptop, and I'd like to install it there. What I'm trying to figure out is whether or not I'm going to have problems with installing the drivers and whatnot I need to keep this thing working correctly. The thing I'm mostly worried about is the wireless card. Any suggestions on how to make the install as painless as possible?
Yeah, find out what's in it and see how it stacks up against a compatibility list. The best thing is if the distro has something like a laptop compatibility list, like this one for Arch for the Gateway MX6961.
So I'm interested in trying out linux for the first time. I currently have a Gateway M laptop, and I'd like to install it there. What I'm trying to figure out is whether or not I'm going to have problems with installing the drivers and whatnot I need to keep this thing working correctly. The thing I'm mostly worried about is the wireless card. Any suggestions on how to make the install as painless as possible?
Most modern distros are pretty painless to install.
For hardware compatability try booting a LiveCD and see if everything works. Bear in mind running things off the LiveCD tends to be a lot slower than running off the hard drive, so don't be worried about that. Just fire it up and check that it correctly recognises the screen resolution, sound, wifi, etc.
I just used mangler to substitute a vent client ,and im talking in vent.
Steam had a gold rating on wine and is installing.
I... Im scared.
Hold me
edit: TF2/steam work, but really slowly. Steam has alot of lag/delays, and TF2 has awful framerate. I have the official nvidia drivers, a amd athlon 2400 dualcore, and an 8800gt. Is there anything i can do to up my fps? Or am I boned until I upgrade hardware?
Hot shit. The proprietary drivers actually work for once. I can even play games I couldn't hope to run before.
...only trouble is now firefox (iceweasel) renders pages funny sometimes. Shit randomly goes black. Oh well, I guess this is the final push toward Chrome.
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When spinning commands together, I like to use && if they are sequential operations on some file, as that will stop if some step or other fails. Like the cat command can't find "file" for whatever reason - the newfile won't be created with the date.
I hate linux, but my main issue with my Ubuntu install has been that Firefox crashes unlike on my XP desktop I've used for 6 years and I needed to use sudo to save my nvidia settings.
If Windows had a native SSH terminal I would never use anything else.
I hate linux, but my main issue with my Ubuntu install has been that Firefox crashes unlike on my XP desktop I've used for 6 years and I needed to use sudo to save my nvidia settings.
If Windows had a native SSH terminal I would never use anything else.
The only times I really remember having Firefox crash on Linux have been when Flash crashed. Which it seems to enjoy doing on a regular basis. Try Flashblock.
I've had way more non-plugin-related Firefox trouble on Windows, where I've not only seen it grind to a halt and crash after opening a mere 48 tabs (XP apparently doesn't manage memory amazingly well >_>), but also had the updater get stuck in a loop on multiple machines.
...also, Windows has several native SSH applications? PuTTY, WinSCP, TTSSH? Unless you're using the word "native" in some way I'm not. I guess the Cygwin version of OpenSSH might not qualify?
I work at a hosting company and probably SSH into around 40 servers a day at least. I use PuTTY at home for my person stuff but I can't imagine trying to deal with it everytime I connect to a server.
Being able to rsync files to servers from my desktop when the software download page doesn't give me a direct download link that I can wget makes it worth using linux on my work desktop.
I might check into TTSSH, though. Sounds promising.
I work at a hosting company and probably SSH into around 40 servers a day at least. I use PuTTY at home for my person stuff but I can't imagine trying to deal with it everytime I connect to a server.
Being able to rsync files to servers from my desktop when the software download page doesn't give me a direct download link that I can wget makes it worth using linux on my work desktop.
I might check into TTSSH, though. Sounds promising.
Try Tunnelier as well. It does what i think you are wanting very well.
I work at a hosting company and probably SSH into around 40 servers a day at least. I use PuTTY at home for my person stuff but I can't imagine trying to deal with it everytime I connect to a server.
Being able to rsync files to servers from my desktop when the software download page doesn't give me a direct download link that I can wget makes it worth using linux on my work desktop.
I might check into TTSSH, though. Sounds promising.
Try Tunnelier as well. It does what i think you are wanting very well.
I will try these out but there is so much...interface on top of it. All I want is a command prompt so I can type "ssh [email protected]" and connect. In my dream world, I could go to start->run->cmd and have a command prompt that lets me do that. Unfortunately I am stuck in a world where I want to run nothing but Windows desktops and Linux servers.
More often than not I will never log into the same server twice. Except for certain customers who I log into daily because they are needy but pay my wages.
Cygwin can probably handle what you're looking for, though admittedly it's a bit slower than I'd really prefer. Probably wouldn't be noticeable with ssh though...
Had a great linux night last night. I was running freenas off a usb drive to serve up my 2x1TB RAID1 disks. Started having issues where it wasn't detecting the disks right and I wanted to add print server capability.
Last night:
Pulled 1 drive from the array. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 server to the 1 disk in there. Dropped the original "RAID" disk back in, mounted the UFS partition and copied my data over. Got samba working in about 5 minutes this morning and am contemplating now converting the single drive to a RAID 1 again.
Aside from Dropbox, Skype, Picasa, (the latest version of) Wine, Chrome, and Air, aren't most of those apps are already in the normal Ubuntu repos? Does this install the latest version from their respective project repositories or something?
Okay, so org-mode is pretty much amazing-looking and worth switching to Emacs for. But it's so big I don't really know where to start with it, and there's a ton of configuration options, but lisp is...lisp. Anyone ever played with it or have even some general Emacs tutorials?
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First I've heard of it. The 32 bit version ran fine for me on 64 bit Ubuntu, iirc.
Synaptic tells me WINE is in "Universe". I can't remember which are enabled by default, but I have a suspicion it may just be "Main".
EDIT: System -> Administration -> Synaptic
then
Settings -> Repositories, then the "Ubuntu Software" tab. I have Main, Universe, Restricted and Multiverse enabled. Also the Opera repository and the Partner repository that I added myself.
Anyway, WINE should work on 64-bit Ubuntu, but it doesn't run 64-bit Windows applications yet.
This depends on your wireless driver, though many mobile NIC drivers do have an option to disable the device.
And it just occurred to me that XP is the only non-OSS software I still use. It would be trivial for me to switch to Linux if I were compelled to do so by Microsoft deciding to enforce some onerous interpretation of the EULA.
Everything else has a Linux port or runs great in WINE.
edit: Though I do use PS CS1. GIMP is a suitable stand-in if necessary though.
Shhh. Shhhhh!
Did you hear that?
That, my friends, is the sound of every piece of hardware in my laptop working out of the box in Linux.
Once again, I've fucked things up by messing around with video drivers... so, recommend me an awesome distro.
If nothing else, I'll just reinstall #!, but I figure that now is as good a time as any to try something new.
Edit: Actually, fuck it. I think I'm going to try just fixing things for once.
Most modern distros are pretty painless to install.
For hardware compatability try booting a LiveCD and see if everything works. Bear in mind running things off the LiveCD tends to be a lot slower than running off the hard drive, so don't be worried about that. Just fire it up and check that it correctly recognises the screen resolution, sound, wifi, etc.
I.. my sound works..
And my networking...
And my internets...
And my video drivers.
I just used mangler to substitute a vent client ,and im talking in vent.
Steam had a gold rating on wine and is installing.
I... Im scared.
Hold me
edit: TF2/steam work, but really slowly. Steam has alot of lag/delays, and TF2 has awful framerate. I have the official nvidia drivers, a amd athlon 2400 dualcore, and an 8800gt. Is there anything i can do to up my fps? Or am I boned until I upgrade hardware?
...only trouble is now firefox (iceweasel) renders pages funny sometimes. Shit randomly goes black. Oh well, I guess this is the final push toward Chrome.
Edit: Also, flash is noticeably shittier-looking.
Any commands I could run that would help bring it back to life?
Steam ID: Good Life
It still uses X, right? Check your XOrg log file I guess? Hell, check to see if X is running at all.
Steam ID: Good Life
The semi-colon is used to do multiple commands in one line, right? And > brings the output into your specified file.
If I wanted the text from an emacs file to correspond to say, date, how would I get that all into one file? Basically:
cat file;date
will produce the text and then the date in one line. But
cat file;date > newfile
will print the contents of file, and put the date into the new file.
How do I make the single line all in the file?
I hope that makes sense...
cat file >> newfile;date >> newfile
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
What the hell is nepomuk, and do I need it?
If Windows had a native SSH terminal I would never use anything else.
The only times I really remember having Firefox crash on Linux have been when Flash crashed. Which it seems to enjoy doing on a regular basis. Try Flashblock.
I've had way more non-plugin-related Firefox trouble on Windows, where I've not only seen it grind to a halt and crash after opening a mere 48 tabs (XP apparently doesn't manage memory amazingly well >_>), but also had the updater get stuck in a loop on multiple machines.
...also, Windows has several native SSH applications? PuTTY, WinSCP, TTSSH? Unless you're using the word "native" in some way I'm not. I guess the Cygwin version of OpenSSH might not qualify?
Being able to rsync files to servers from my desktop when the software download page doesn't give me a direct download link that I can wget makes it worth using linux on my work desktop.
I might check into TTSSH, though. Sounds promising.
I know this isn't strictly linux-related, but... it's on linux, so I guess that counts.
Edit: ...aaaand I just remembered there's never going to be an Ep. 3. Suddenly I'm depressed.
Also Chrome rocks in Linux now.
Try Tunnelier as well. It does what i think you are wanting very well.
I will try these out but there is so much...interface on top of it. All I want is a command prompt so I can type "ssh [email protected]" and connect. In my dream world, I could go to start->run->cmd and have a command prompt that lets me do that. Unfortunately I am stuck in a world where I want to run nothing but Windows desktops and Linux servers.
More often than not I will never log into the same server twice. Except for certain customers who I log into daily because they are needy but pay my wages.
I mean, I still sorta wish it was free for everybody, but still, updating the kernel while it's running is pretty neat.
Last night:
Pulled 1 drive from the array. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 server to the 1 disk in there. Dropped the original "RAID" disk back in, mounted the UFS partition and copied my data over. Got samba working in about 5 minutes this morning and am contemplating now converting the single drive to a RAID 1 again.
Yeah linux
Aside from Dropbox, Skype, Picasa, (the latest version of) Wine, Chrome, and Air, aren't most of those apps are already in the normal Ubuntu repos? Does this install the latest version from their respective project repositories or something?