pete_m
May 16th, 2010, 01:42 AM
I'm an EEE PC user planning an imminent move to Ubuntu Lucid . .
in the hope of performance improvements and the benefit of tying in to a fresh LTS release.
i've put some work into my existing Ubuntu install based on 9.10 karmic nbr2 and am very happy with the results - full credit and thanks to all . .
First screenshots - more soon - of my work in progress at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoI4wRVVjBs
i'm still comparitively new to Linux so any observations and guidance will be much appreciated ..
i'm hoping to be able to upgrade my machine rather than do a fresh install. .i've been following some threads about this process and possible pitfalls and i've been swapping repositories in and out while running apt-get -s to preview forthcoming upgrades. . .
on the basis of it's not broken don't fix it - i shall probably wait for the next release of Lucid before taking the plunge. . there are only a few areas where i feel my present set-up may be a little behind the times.
I've been setting up repositories for individual packages to get the stuff i'm particualrly interested in directly from the development repos.
so far i've added repos for -
RGBA support
Virtualbox
Cairo-dock
a couple of these are personal repositories from launchpad. .
i've come across Alioth as the repository for getting up-to-date gnome snapshots - but haven't managed to get the right apt line . .Help please
my other particular candidates for searching out repos would be . ..
GStreamer
ALSA/Pulse/Jack Audio
Blender
GIMP
perhaps it would be useful to gather together a list of repos( and accompanying gpg stuff ) pertaining to the different areas of interest.
in this way interested( and informed) users could start to use devlopment repos in conjunction with the main Karmic/ Lucid repos.
tho' this may not be a problem-free route i feel it might provide useful feedback to developers and possibly identify issues with the underlying distro
P.S.
i'm always running out of space on my 4Gb partition - trying for the moment to cram everything in so as to be easily able to make .iso's for USB sticks - i'll install later across all my available partitions -
in the interests of maximising disk space . .i've pruned
all the printing sub-system - CUPS and friends
compressed /usr/share/doc contents to an external drive
backed up n then snipped all the big files in /var/log
and now the single biggest culprit for hogging disk space is Open Office
i'm aware of gnome equivalents for some of the Office/ Open Office programmes. .
any observations about these and their suitability for both mainstream and specialised use would be most welcome.
Word Processing -
Spreadsheet -
Database -
do these alternatives play nicely together ? - eg. to do a mail merge from s'sheet to WP
not far behind for disk usage are Java VM and RE
i briefly tried the Opensource Java runtime - as a firefox extension, but when it seemed it might be problematic i went for the Sun stuff . .
Again, any observations would be most welcome.
Thanks to all . .
in the hope of performance improvements and the benefit of tying in to a fresh LTS release.
i've put some work into my existing Ubuntu install based on 9.10 karmic nbr2 and am very happy with the results - full credit and thanks to all . .
First screenshots - more soon - of my work in progress at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoI4wRVVjBs
i'm still comparitively new to Linux so any observations and guidance will be much appreciated ..
i'm hoping to be able to upgrade my machine rather than do a fresh install. .i've been following some threads about this process and possible pitfalls and i've been swapping repositories in and out while running apt-get -s to preview forthcoming upgrades. . .
on the basis of it's not broken don't fix it - i shall probably wait for the next release of Lucid before taking the plunge. . there are only a few areas where i feel my present set-up may be a little behind the times.
I've been setting up repositories for individual packages to get the stuff i'm particualrly interested in directly from the development repos.
so far i've added repos for -
RGBA support
Virtualbox
Cairo-dock
a couple of these are personal repositories from launchpad. .
i've come across Alioth as the repository for getting up-to-date gnome snapshots - but haven't managed to get the right apt line . .Help please
my other particular candidates for searching out repos would be . ..
GStreamer
ALSA/Pulse/Jack Audio
Blender
GIMP
perhaps it would be useful to gather together a list of repos( and accompanying gpg stuff ) pertaining to the different areas of interest.
in this way interested( and informed) users could start to use devlopment repos in conjunction with the main Karmic/ Lucid repos.
tho' this may not be a problem-free route i feel it might provide useful feedback to developers and possibly identify issues with the underlying distro
P.S.
i'm always running out of space on my 4Gb partition - trying for the moment to cram everything in so as to be easily able to make .iso's for USB sticks - i'll install later across all my available partitions -
in the interests of maximising disk space . .i've pruned
all the printing sub-system - CUPS and friends
compressed /usr/share/doc contents to an external drive
backed up n then snipped all the big files in /var/log
and now the single biggest culprit for hogging disk space is Open Office
i'm aware of gnome equivalents for some of the Office/ Open Office programmes. .
any observations about these and their suitability for both mainstream and specialised use would be most welcome.
Word Processing -
Spreadsheet -
Database -
do these alternatives play nicely together ? - eg. to do a mail merge from s'sheet to WP
not far behind for disk usage are Java VM and RE
i briefly tried the Opensource Java runtime - as a firefox extension, but when it seemed it might be problematic i went for the Sun stuff . .
Again, any observations would be most welcome.
Thanks to all . .