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Microsoft wants to control everything. Including which browser people use, standards, etc. They want people to use Windows software and only Windows software.



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You could try the Google Chrome Beta for Linux which will probably run faster than firefox. See: http://www.google.com/chrome

I consider your replies both impolite and rude.

I am only suggesting a little message informing the user about the software the forums use. But no, that isn't OK because then people would be put...

"There are much bigger battles in the world"??

Ubuntu has an option to install "Free Software Only" yet users who come to this site are involuntarily using non-free software.

All I'm suggesting...

Really? Just a little warning/message? What harm can it do? :)

Seeing as my previous thread was closed, I thought I'd try and explain what I meant better here.

Seeing as these forums are for a community of open source users, I think there should be a warning...

I decided to check what software Ubuntu Forums uses to run it's forums. At the bottom, it says that it uses vBulletin, which is proprietary/commercial forum software. Why doesn't Ubuntu Forums run...

I would say 10.04 is your best bet. Beta1 is being released today so there should be less bugs. Maybe give that a go? :)

Regards, David.

Have you tried the following?


sudo update-grub

Well, if you like Compiz, you could always run LXDE -with- Compiz. I don't see why that shouldn't work if you wish to do so.

Regards, David.

Thank you all. I shall look into all of the above. :)

I'm looking for something that will run on a 1999 laptop. 2gb hdd, 65mb RAM, etc. It's horrid. But is there anything currently supported that will run on it? It's my sister's and it currently has...

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Have you tried burning another copy of the live CD? Might help.

Burning .ISO files to CD in Windows: ImgBurn

Note: It's only Freeware. I don't know any easy-to-use open source CD writers for...

I haven't changed a lot from default. I like the Kubuntu desktop (mostly) the way it is. :)

Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Theme: Default (Air)
Compositing: Enabled

Apps running:
Google Chrome...

And if you'd rather use the terminal to extract the .tar.bz2:


$ tar xjf /path/to/file.tar.bz2

Well, 'Free Software' can be about money, marketing, branding, etc.

Open Source != Free of Charge. Most distros just choose to be free of charge. However, some don't. E.g.: SUSE Linux, RHEL, etc.

The only OS I use is GNU/Linux (a variety of distributions).

My sister, who is 11, also uses GNU/Linux as her only OS. She uses Fedora LXDE on her netbook. May switch her over to Lubuntu when...

I'm kind-of disappointed that Linus is against distributions like Gentoo and Arch. But I can see his point. However, in my experience, only -new- GNU/Linux users (e.g. former Windows users) fear the...