Thursday Meeting Topic?
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*is* this upcoming Thursday, May 1st, correct?
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Rick Nemer
I never looked at it. Some one want to show it off?
Any other ideas for a topic?.
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Fred Merchant
I have painlessly installed Ubuntu on my computer and have most everything intact using the WUBI proggie.
I know that's meaningless to you experts on Linux in this group, but for me it's an achievement. I think I have enough working that I can concentrate on using the 'puter via Linux rather than using the computer to use Linux, if anyone recalls my past poor experience with Linux.
I'm placing this mesage here so that you folks can use my experience as a testimonial to other Windows users who might be too timid to venture into Linux.
I installed Ubuntu on one of my drives and it was a success - as successful as one would expect with Linux...
The install went reasonably flawless. The first re-boot requires you to continue with selecting Ubuntu on the re-boot. The instructions did not specifically say to do that. I figured that's what they meant and FOR THAT RESON I chose to boot Windows. Well, windows was still there as always (I expected as much.) Since the installation did not proceed I figured for real they wanted me to boot into Ubuntu. So I did.
The installation continued but it sort of hung up at 82% completed. I read the instructions and saw some people had an 88% completion problem and that they warn against "pressing the button." If I'm left alone with a computer not doing anything for more than a few minutes, I WILL press the button. So instead, I took Dog Angie outside. Since she had many things on her agenda to inspect, I took about 30 minutes before coming back to the computer. When I did Windows was up and running. So I figured the dual-boot Ubuntu install was successful without my help. I was impressed right there!
I booted into Ubuntu and found, as I expected:
1. It installed OK
2. It did not recognize my second monitor
3. It did not recognize my Brother Laser Printer.
4. Movies don't run without codecs that are not found. (I can't run my porn.)
It did recognize my HP Color ink jet printer.
I moseyed around and saw most all of my Windows files and directories. I say most all, because one drive has 3 partitions, the other drives are single-partition. (This is all prior-Linux.)
I think I only found four "drives" I think. More exploring is necessary. Puzzling is that all the unused space on a Windows drive shows up as a separate folder in Linux. For example, a 50-GB partition has 20-GB not used under Windows -- in Ubuntu I see a folder/drive (not sure until I look again) that has a capacity of 20-GB.
I installed the NVidia drivers for my second monitor, but my second monitor is still not there, although my desktop is very, very wide: If I drag a window over to the far right, the whole desktop shifts left displaying the rest of my desktop. Makes one dizzy watching it. moving the mouse to the far left shifts the desktop to the right so I see the left side of the desktop. The intent of me buying a second monitor for $250 was to have the display on that second monitor, rather then shifting a virtual desktop back and forth. Linux still hasn't got dual-monitor solved yet. Perhaps in the next decade they will figure it out. I've run dual monitor for almost 10 years now and Linux has always failed (and even irrevocably crashes) when I try to get both monitors running.
So, I'll stick with the installation as it is, rather than messing with xconfig and bruising my image of Linux again. When I get enought hands-on Linux/Ubuntu experience I'll explore the dual-monitor problem.
Fred Merchant