Fedora is bleeding-edge, latest and greatest kinda stuff. The most recent Ubuntu release is as well, but Ubuntu offers the choice of the long-term-support (LTS) versions, which generally remain more...
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Fedora is bleeding-edge, latest and greatest kinda stuff. The most recent Ubuntu release is as well, but Ubuntu offers the choice of the long-term-support (LTS) versions, which generally remain more...
I use Xournal. It lets me scrawl notes on a laptop touchpad in class and annotate pdfs as well.
Mint 9 Xfce is awesome (and still supported for nearly another year), based on Xubu 10.04. When support for it ends, I'm confident that the next Xubu LTS (12.04) will be every bit as awesome, and...
LTS releases, beginning with 10.04, are built from Debian Testing rather than Debian Unstable (see here) like the regular releases are. Thus the LTS releases are "arguably" a little more stable than...
They reject Ubuntu's contributions so they can continue to whine about Ubuntu "not contributing to Linux."
I disagree about Xubu being roughly the same as Gnome 2 on resources. That is only true if the user has all the compositing stuff turned on and uses heavier applications than the ones that ship...
Hi Austin, and welcome! If your laptop can boot from a CD-ROM drive or USB drive, you can boot straight into Ubuntu using the Live image (iso). Read this guide to learn how.
People who are satisfied with what they have don't have any reason to switch.
People who see Linux geeks always tweaking and fine-tuning their computers generally don't understand that they're...
I'm one of those kids who still fills personal correspondence with lots of formatting, little animated gifs, pictures, and whatnots. Much easier to do in a full-featured client like Thunderbird than...
Xfce is prob'ly as close as you'll find to Gnome 2. Only faster. Lots faster on my old machine.
Xubuntu is likely the best alternative to try before "leaving Ubuntu" if you've been a satisfied...
Xfce has it's own built-in compositor... Mixing it with compiz may slow it down a bit.
Love my Xubu!
Best cutting-edge KDE distro with RPM package management (and Synaptic!) might be PCLinuxOS! Rolling release, easy KDE.
SimplyMepis 11.0 is based on Debian Stable but has the newest KDE desktop...
I'm in that class now, lol. Same kind of thing, our prof just wants us to "see" a different point of view. Because, he says, "too many in your generation simply can't see any point of view other than...
Follow this step-by-step guide.
I used the minimal installation CD to create the LXDE mixture that saved a reeeeeally olllllld computer at the dance studio from the landfill. It was so quick and...
Minimal Ubuntu (CLI-only), then add an ultralight GUI like Openbox. Make your own UbuntuBang.
For kid-friendly simplicity though, I doubt that it gets any better than Lubuntu.
PCLinuxOS balked on my old hand-me-down hardware both times I tried it (KDE and Xfce both, last year and this year). But it's rolling-release, very easy to install and use, has a very thoughtful...
Sticking with the LTS releases for now... down to only one 'puter and it's "mission critical!" Can't risk any mess-ups even if they're my own fault. 'Puter's gotta work!
I'll likely even wait...
Yeah, don't feel bad at ALL! My PC has 512 RAM and an old Celeron processor. Yet Xubuntu 10.04 runs flawless and fast on it! So did Ubuntu 10.04 for that matter!
She won't handle Unity, but I...
When it comes to the 'buntus (Lubu, Xubu, Kubu, Ubu) if you're a newbie, I always recommend either to stick with the LTS editions or stay "one release behind" the most recent one, since it takes...
I loved Crunchbang when it was built on Ubuntu 9.04. Flawless, fast, geeky fun! On the Debian base it balks on my hardware and it's much more troublesome. But I still have a soft spot in my heart for...
Let us k now how you like it! I've been tempted to play with it myself, but I'm unwilling to take chances right now because I'm down to only one single 'puter for school and I dare not mess it up! :D...
I don't think any Qt apps are included in default Lubuntu. It's all gtk. So Kcontrol would not be included by default either.
If you have room on your hard disk, there's no harm in installing Qt...
It's rare, but it could be a network issue, where the installation depends in part upon getting packages over the Internet from a server that was temporarily down.
IF you are sure that the LiveCD...
In Synaptic choose "LXDE" and install it (it requires a few things, but it won't install major applications like a web browser and all that. You'll get a file manager (PCManFM - very nice, still my...
Their web site doesn't offer a hardware compatibility page, minimum system requirements, or even a description of what DE it uses. It may be a fine distro, but with none of the vital information...