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4 Hours Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Saucy Release Schedule, Partial Upgrades and Common Questions in Ubuntu +1

My view, schedule should be influenced by what is available when, then every 6 months sweep up whatever is on the floor and put a ribbon around...

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2 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Testing for flavours in Ubuntu +1

Saucy lubuntu amd64 up and running on: Acer Aspire One D255E Intel Atom dual processor 1.66 gHz 1G storage External 1600x900 monitor, wireless...

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3 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

I make some attempt to turn off all the places where ubuntu, firefox, chrome, etc report back to the mother ship except for crashes. That's getting...

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3 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Testing for flavours in Ubuntu +1

I boot the .iso directly from the hard drive much (!) faster than USB with an entry like this: sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom #!/bin/sh exec...

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3 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

My nook hd+ came with Google Chrome (not chromium) and my Acer C7 Chromebook came with Google Chrome (not chromium) so I installed Google Chrome Beta...

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4 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Resolution problems in Ubuntu +1

For a while on a 1024x600 netbookI was using an external monitor TV which had 1366x768 resolution. After thrashing the internet a bit I wound up...

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4 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Kernel 3.9.0.2 seems to be working better than 3.9.0.1 in Ubuntu +1

Thanks....I took a look at gtkorphan. Looks like I could wipe out saucy pretty easily if I didn't know what I was doing, which is the case. Install...

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4 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Kernel 3.9.0.2 seems to be working better than 3.9.0.1 in Ubuntu +1

This is an Intel Atom N455 in an Acer Aspire One D255E running Saucy amd64 updated to 19 May O.K. cli df is showing disk space usage growing so I...

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4 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

Was able to install Chrome beta. It did get this message: Unpacking google-chrome-beta (from google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb) ... dpkg:...

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4 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

Tried installing Google Chrome stable amd64 onto 13.10 3.9.0.1 ran into dependencies at my level of expertise couldn't resolve. Google Chrome...

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5 Days Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Ubuntu on Aspire One D270 in Ubuntu +1

This is a D255E, Acer Aspire One netbook, a bit older I think than the D270. Dual Atom processors 1.66 gHz saucey amd64 updated most days. 1 GB...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

I use Google Chrome on a Nook HD+ and I've a Chromebook. For whatever reason the two browsers are somewhat different in options and choices example...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Skype in Ubuntu +1

If skype worked on 13.04 and doesn't on 13.10 sure seems to be a 13.10 problem. We use skype to Australia from U.S. on my wife's windows - she uses...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Anyone got MIR working in raring? in Ubuntu +1

? I've got ubuntu on netbook, notebook, desktop, also tablets 7" and 10" with android browser and 9" tablet with chrome browser. These tablets are...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Upgrading Question in Ubuntu +1

In development of unstable ubuntu I expect to do a lot of installs. I've done at least 3 saucy installs on netbook, notebook, desktop. Installs are...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread 13.10 Daily Build in Ubuntu +1

13.10 amd64 installed on netbook and notebook, 13.10 i386 installed on tower O.K. Do note, during development, sometimes ubuntu install crashes. ...

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1 Week Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread Install to USB device in Ubuntu +1

I've been installing ubuntu for some time on USB hard drives. Currently working fine on a USB SSD on this Acer Aspire netbook, amd64 versions. Also...

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2 Weeks Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread btrfs Question in Ubuntu +1

I don't know anything about btrfs (!). On a mulit-partition setup with Pangolin, Windows 7, etc. I tried specifying btrfs on a saucy install and...

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2 Weeks Ago

jerrylamos replied to a thread how to change repos to Saucy in Ubuntu +1

Nope, simpler than that, just did a cp raring-desktiop-amd64.iso saucy-desktip-amd64.iso then did a sudo zsync...

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