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  1. Re: LO closes down immediately when I open anything

    Some oddball information: I've added the LO PPA and updated to LO 4.0.3.3. This has not corrected the behavior. I tried LXLE live, which has 4.0.2 if I recall correctly, and that worked. I just...
  2. LO closes down immediately when I open anything

    I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 in Kubuntu 12.04 and every time I open a document or start any of the components -- writer, calc, base, ANYTHING -- and the whole thing promptly closes. I'm up to date,...
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    Re: Best games on ubuntu

    RTS / Giant Strategy games aren't usually my thing, but I understand that 0 AD is highly rated.

    Incidentally, we could make better suggestions if you could let us know what you think makes a good...
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    Re: Giving Steam its own partition

    That would be it. I was trying to install TF2.
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    Re: Giving Steam its own partition

    No, I can't. I can define other directories as libraries for steam, but I can't select them as the destination for a download. They go to default or they don't go at all.
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    Giving Steam its own partition

    I've long played WoW on multiple distros using Wine. My trick was to install all my windows software in its own partition which I would mount to ~/.wine/drive_c/Programs during startup. This...
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    Re: Best games on ubuntu

    Y'all are neglecting one of the greatest, deepest, most addictive games ever written, originally for UNIX, but ported to every other platform on earth:

    nethack!

    I say again, nethack!!

    You...
  8. Re: Recent stable distro with infrequent changes for newbie dad?

    I'm going to go outside the box here and suggest rolling-release PCLinuxOS. Kernel, grub-legacy, synaptic for RPM, and Xorg are kept conservative; other apps roll out pretty quickly after upstream. ...
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    Re: linux os/desktop question

    One of the more stripped down distros out there is Madbox Linux, based on 12.04. It uses an openbox environment largely cribbed from CrunchBang. Another that's really stripped down for installed...
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    Poll: Re: Using Windows 8

    @Kazuya, that's also the purpose of Classic Shell, though it tends to emulate XP, and it works in Vista, 7 (where I use it), and 8.
  12. Thread: Mageia

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    Re: Mageia

    @claudecat: PCLOS had Mandrake/Mandriva roots. They're now an independent rolling release distro but can be really conservative (eg, still using grub legacy, which raises significant issues if...
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    Re: Need help finding a distro

    I'm going to suggest ditching eye candy for functionality. I like Ubuntu, but for the interface. My preference runs towards ubuntu spins with lighter DEs or even just a window manager. Right now,...
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    Poll: Re: Using Windows 8

    See, my curiousity was stirred by this thread. Three people there said they like Win 8, and two of them said they use it with touchscreens. The third didn't describe his interface hardware at all....
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    Poll: Using Windows 8

    I'd like to hear from those who like Win8. I expect that Microsoft has retained all their working software stacks from Windows 7 (which was pretty much all of them in my experience), except the...
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    Re: Windows 8 and i like it

    @Jay Nnib, quick questions:
    Are you also using Win8 with a touchscreen?
    Mouse/trackpad?
    Classic Shell addon?

    I strongly suspect that the majority of complaints re: Win8 (and probably...
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    [SOLVED] Re: fstab issue: how to specify mount order?

    since the _netdev option didn't work for me with mount -a in /etc/rc.local, I went and used a mount -U statement for each partition there, copying UUIDs & mountpoints from fstab. That works just...
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    [SOLVED] Re: fstab issue: how to specify mount order?

    Further information: It appears that the "noauto" option in fstab explicitly prevents the partitions from being mounted by "mount -a". Can I then replace the "mount -a" command in /etc/rc.local...
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    [SOLVED] Re: fstab issue: how to specify mount order?

    I spoke too soon. Now those partitions don't mount at all. I have to do it after I log in. Which, given there are three disks on my system, involves using "sudo blkid" to find out which is where. ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: fstab issue: how to specify mount order?

    JKyleOKC, that seems to have done the trick! I forgot the bit in the script the first time around, but I think it will solve everything. I'll know next reboot.
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    [SOLVED] fstab issue: how to specify mount order?

    I'm not very familiar with the Precise startup & boot process (I'm using a custom DE, based mostly on Madbox 12.04), but I have heard that lots of processes run in parallel in order to speed things...
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    Re: Whats the story with Open Office?

    I use .rtf with LibreOffice for interoperability. Everyone at school is locked into MS Office, and none of them have complained about .rtf files generated by LO.

    Abiword 2.9.2 is complete and...
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    Free vs. Captive Software

    Enough people are confused by the term "Free software" that, in an effort to clear up the confusion, free software advocates like to use two terms: "free as free speech" and "free as free beer." ...
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    Re: Catalyst 12.6beta & Lucid Lynx

    Filling in all the drop down boxes on that page led me to this page, and the link is once again to http://www2.ati.com/drivers/legacy/amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86_64.zip -- the exact same...
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    Catalyst 12.6beta & Lucid Lynx

    Is there an issue with the current Catalyst Beta drivers (12.6) from the manufacturer's site?

    I understand that this might not be the most suitable place to put this, but I'm not sure where it...
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