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Are Google's products i.e. Google earth and Picasa etc actually Open source?

Have you tried reinstalling or upgrading grub?

Excellent points murderslastcrow its always good to try new stuff and its about time things changed (especially as hardware capabilities aren't holding us back so much any more) I expected OS's might...

Open office and Libra office are both fantastic theres barely a difference between the two if you use Ubuntu and Open office is standard maybe you could stick with that for now? but computers and...

I recently swapped from Gnome Ubuntu 10.10 to Kubuntu 10.10 (KDE 4.5.1) to try it out I think KDE looks great and I love the search and launch desktop view FANTASTIC but i also like the look of...

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I downloaded a DEB (Ubuntu EXE) of Burg from a web site

https://launchpad.net/burg

or for PPA:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Burg

And Burg manager:

Got to agree a bad looking web site won't appeal to computer + Ubuntu/Linux users alike Defiantly get rid of the coffee cup but fantastic to hear people are offering Ubuntu/Linux machines more and...

Got to have a Windows machine for college/work before then i dual booted but personally i only use Ubuntu (or Kubuntu now) for personal stuff i.e. browsing etc.

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I know its not the most important issue but surely someone has some thing to say, I just think that in this day + age people expect NOT to see line based computing much especially beginners +...

I read Jolicloud really is just a different Graphical-User-Interface on top of Ubuntu so the Deb Nvidia driver that works in Ubuntu should maybe work with Jolicloud

Ubuntu is based on Debian and...

Good advice i still think the Usb install option might be worth exploring though

Do you also know how many hard drives you have?

Screenshot below:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zOebbf_xymc/TCbi5Tc0EYI/AAAAAAAAALw/w0L3vRrdUDk/s1600/burg.png

Yes your ISO you downloaded could be corrupt that is common try new download maybe and perhaps a USB stick install - try the link below.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

Is any one else interested in the idea of a Graphical boot area for dual boot i asked ages ago but recently i found Burg witch is pretty good and much smarter for dual booters who may have need of...

I'm using Kubuntu now (trying it out) but I remember downloading a Nvid driver through a extra drivers app as apose to updates but I think you could find it in Synaptic search as I say they come with...

Have you recently added any new repositories?
Have you tried software source settings for alternate download mirror?

Hi
well i have never seen Joli until now but if its based on Ubuntu (different interface) then depending on your video card cant you download a video card driver they some times come with an app to...

I now know that most mobile internet devices (phones or 3g dongles) work with Ubuntu (not as easy to set-up with KDE distros though) but the software to 'top up' still only works via your phone...

I now know that most mobile internet devices (phones or 3g dongles) work with Ubuntu not as easy to set-up with KDE distros though but the software to 'top up' still only works via your phone (text),...

I know this is an old post now but to finish up if any ones interested in the idea of a graphical boot display then I found something called BURG which looks pretty good, I haven’t been able to get...

SHIPIT: inc Xubuntu

A few people recently have asked about Ubuntu, Kubuntu and X Ubuntu FREE CD shipping,
for those of you who don’t already know Ubuntu and Kubuntu are easy there normally at...

Sorry no I was busy ill have a look + try something out cheers kansasnoob
thanks for all your help + everyone else I hope something works

thanks for now -smiley

If it helps i installed from a USB it worked fine but this was because my cd caused similar problems at boot
live CD would boot black with red + blue squares then just black

-smiley

lspci | grep VGA :
hope this helps

jamie@jamie-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev...

It seems to play videos fine + no i have not installed a video driver do you recomend that ? any one in particular ?

would there be a generic one for intel video

-smiley