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    Re: Ubuntu on Chromebook?

    Rocky : If you install with crouton, Ubuntu uses the Linux foundation provided by Chrome OS. Ubuntu LXDE, with the full LibreOffice suite and some other utilities on my relatively old Samsung S5...
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    Re: Ubuntu on Chromebook?

    @Ron177 : Having run dual-boot installations on a netbook, and Lubuntu via Crouton on a Chromebook, I'll take the latter any day. However, a Chromebook with an ARM processor is not the best...
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    Re: Ubuntu Groom's Cake

    The corner decorations are strawberries and grapes, I think. It was a chocolate cake with a peanut butter layer, so I didn't actually eat any. Actually, too bad such a beautiful job of decoration had...
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    Ubuntu Groom's Cake

    Our neighbors got married yesterday. The groom's cake was AWESOME (but perhaps 5 people out of 100 knew what it was). Sorry for poor image quality: low light, iPod Touch camera, but good enough to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Multitouch Trackpad support

    One more observation: I assume that because two-finger scrolling isn't supported by the Mouse/Trackpad preference in Ubuntu 10.04 (at least not on my hardware), changes to this preference will...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Multitouch Trackpad support

    Thanks so much for this. Yesterday, I experimented with a variant openSUSE distribution, and discovered that the trackpad on my Acer D150 netbook supported two-finger scrolling as a mouse preference...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 LTS Update Error Message

    Restoring from backup resolved the problem.

    A long time ago, I read a book by Mike Gancarz, called "The Unix Philosopy," which had a sentence that the Atari OS and Unix:



    It was a lesson...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 10.04 LTS Update Error Message

    Thanks for the suggestions. "Installable from CD-ROM/DVD" was not checked. I have not edited sources in ages and ages. However, last week I deviated from my normal procedure, and did a test install...
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    [ubuntu] 10.04 LTS Update Error Message

    I searched before posting this (which doesn't mean that I didn't miss it). Update manager is throwing the following error message:


    Please insert the disk labeled:
    Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_...
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    [all variants] Re: Remastersys and Security

    I'm reasonably certain that a Remastersys image cannot span multiple DVDs, therefore, ~4.4gb is the largest image you can create. Use the customize options to exclude certain directories until you...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Partial upgrade -- how to find out why?

    Tribute to Ubuntu. This is the first update error I can recall in 3 years of using Ubuntu, and I quickly found the answer here; time to solution: < 1 minute.

    In comparison, I spent half a day...
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    Re: Whatever You Do, Don't Buy a Chromebook

    More than anything, the Chromebooks are aimed at people who don't want to be bothered with maintaining a computer OS. I started setting up a Win7 notebook for a friend this morning, and still haven't...
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    Re: Chromebooks Now Selling

    I've been using desktop Linux (primarily Ubuntu) for several years on an Acer D150 netbook. I have had a Cr-48 since December 17, and I still wonder if Google knows what they are doing. With an N270...
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    Re: The REAL reasons more people don't use Linux

    That's an interesting history. I've never had a hardware problem with a Mac, but then, the last Mac I bought was a PPC iMac in late 2005, and it's still humminging away, although increasingly more...
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    Re: The REAL reasons more people don't use Linux

    Arguably, only because of the tremendous success of iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. Once you enter the Apple ecology, the computer becomes an accessory to these devices, rather than the other...
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    Re: The REAL reasons more people don't use Linux

    I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right. I've been running Ubuntu on an Acer netbook for three years, starting with 9.04, currently 10.04LTS. I have upgraded the Acer to essentially the same...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Alternative To The 200 Lines Kernel Patch

    I haven't followed this topic in some time, primarily because the patch was utterly transparent and has worked flawlessly. Am I correct to assume that this functionality has been backported to Ubuntu...
  18. [ubuntu] Re: Foreign language showing up on Google page in Firefox

    Interestingly, on a Google Chrome OS notebook, all the non-Latin characters display as empty squares -- which just means that they are not in the character set. To my surprise, unicode is not a...
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    [all variants] Re: Remastersys and Security

    cariboo907: Correct, I added the remastersys ppa to my sources list more than a year ago; I didn't realize that this would make it appear in the Ubuntu Software Center as well as in Synaptic.
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    [all variants] Re: Remastersys and Security

    Thank you, bodhi.zazen. Yours is the voice I most trust here regarding security advice. I had been similarly unable to find anything on the web, and since Remastersys shows up in the Ubuntu Software...
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    [all variants] Remastersys and Security

    This was the final post in a thread that was just closed:



    Since the thread has been closed, I can't follow up. My take is that this warning is a standard disclaimer by Canonical [translation:...
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    [SOLVED] Re: After recent update, red youtube videos?

    Thank goodness for the forum search function, which precluded my opening a new thread on this. I first noticed the "red" problem on Youtube last night. Oddly, it wasn't 100% consistent; links to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: laptop temperature?

    Not likely. Does the fan come on or change pitch? If so, then a sensor is monitoring the operating temperature. It does on mine, even though the monitoring software always reports an operating...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Best components for Ubuntu extreme PC??

    +1 on SSD. It's made my little Atom-powered netbook feel like a far more powerful machine. I suppose there is never such a thing as too much RAM, but after taking mine to 2 GB, I have never seen swap...
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    [ubuntu] Re: laptop temperature?

    I mis-typed, and have corrected the error: 26.8C/81F. The machine has been running for several days, and the bottom of the case is noticeably above body temperature.

    Update: 55 minutes of...
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