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I would like to understand better the diff between Ubuntu and Lubuntu settings and tweaks (especially the ones that are not related to desktop environments).
Is it possible to get somewhere the...

Thank you all for the explanations, I believe that now I understand better how Ubuntu family is related.

Unfortunately, time is not the luxury that I have. However, if I decide to make Ubuntu main OS on this machine, Fedora partition will become obsolete. Then I might try 15.04 daily build...

PS....

I'm still puzzled by a variety of Ubuntu branches. Need some explanation please...

Take for example Xubuntu and Lubuntu, when I read about them the main topic being mentioned is different desktop...

Just had a quick look at my Fedora 20 scheduler settings:

[boris@E7440-DELL ~]$ cat /sys/block/sd*/queue/scheduler
noop deadline [cfq]


I'm convinced now that cfq is the superior scheduler....

#-o Oh my god, is this thread still alive... :roll:

I was not able to implement permanent elevator option in /boot/grub/grub.conf (since grub2 is introduced the syntax is incomprehensible and I do not want mess with it)
Instead, I have entered "echo...

Of course, it was late, I was not awake :oops:

I have changed scheduler to "cfq" for all my drives.

root@DC7100-HP:/home/boris# echo cfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler...

The iostat output looks like this:


Linux 3.13.0-39-generic (DC7100-HP) 25-11-14 _i686_ (2 CPU)

avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
36,30 0,24 6,57 ...

The reason that my HDD's are partitioned as such is because I have Windows, Fedora and Ubuntu on this machine and several large partitions that I use to secure my NAS data while performing NAS...

I upgraded to 14.04 again...

This is the top output:

top - 17:34:49 up 7 days, 19:14, 4 users, load average: 3,09, 2,41, 1,13
Tasks: 260 total, 1 running, 259 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0...

Before you start repairing Ubuntu, backup your personal files to an external drive, or a DVD.

Follow the steps as described below and you shall be fine:
1. download SystemRescueCd ISO image...

I was using Ubuntu 13.04 for about two years without any performance issues om my good old HP Compaq DC7100. Ever since I upgraded to 14.04 my machine is almost continuously suffering from extremely...

This normally should not happen. Check your HDD for failures!

Before you reinstall Ubuntu, make a copy of your /home/(user) directory (if your system is inoperable you can allays use a live CD to...

Then create a new user and try to log-in as another user.

sudo adduser <newuser>

If you are able to log-in as another user then something is wrong with you user configuration.
If another...

Download Gparted Live CD http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.19.1-4-i486.iso
Boot from the live CD, then start gparted and you shall see if the partition structure is still...

I'm not 100% sure, but it might have to do something with your problem.
What I usually do when a sudden problem surfaces, is back-trace my steps and remove all suspect packages.

You can search...

What was the last thing that you did before this problem occurred?

In order to align UID GID with my other (NFS mounted) systems, I have changed UID GID of Ubuntu user.

These are exact steps that I performed to change UID GID of user "boris":

log-out user...

In Fedora it is only hunspell that is used by all application (firefox, thunderbird, evolution, libreoffice, gedit, tomboy).

So in order to install hunspell in Ubuntu I need to search for...

No different language keyboard layouts, that is not what I need. My keyboard stays English USA.
Only the text in the documents and instant messaging must be checked for spelling errors.

Thank you for the advice, I appreciate it.
Especial all in one example is interesting, I'll explore it to see if it suits my needs.

My approach is not so sophisticated. It is very pragmatic, but...

Is there system-wide spelling check tool for Ubuntu?
If yes, how to install dictionaries for Dutch and Croatian languages?

So if I understood correctly, ffmpeg that you suggest is precompiled, it works out of the box.
I'll give it a try and see what happens.

I use AVI as an intermediate format, to get the right...

I need to convert my iPhone .mov to .avi.

Normally on my Fedora machine I use ffmpeg to manipulate the videos. I was surprised to see that ffmpeg does not work on Ubuntu:
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