[hurdlebeast]

I have a problem with Ubuntu (fiesty fawn, not the new one). I try to use the Add/Remove to get wine. I've done all that they said at winehq (use sudo in the command line to add the ftp site to the program manager). The problem is that I open the add/remove, it tells me that 'the list of availabe applications is out of date", i click reload, it downloads anywhere from 28 to 54 files, then i get the message "You have 1 broken package on your system! Use the 'Broken' filter to fix it". I click close on that one, then another pops up: "Could not apply changes! fix broken packages first". I close that one, and now when I try to get a package, the wristwatch comes up and stays up. it doesn't crash or anything, I just can't check any packages and download them. any help would be very much appreciated.

Edit: Also, I am using Adept but every time i open it, it says "Read only mode:Need root privileges...blah blah blah". I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good site or something that teaches how to disable that. I know it's gonna be 'sudo somethingorother -rwxrwxrwx -a'...at least i think.

Double edit: Figured it out: all i had to do was update to gusty gis? (7.10) and pretty much everything is working perfect now I really, really love this OS now, much better than M$ XP and Vista Ultimate.

[martix_agent]

I'm about to buy a old $300 laptop and use ubantu on it. There are word proessors and stuff for it right?

[L1nUx_r0ot]

Originally Posted by martix_agent

I'm about to buy a old $300 laptop and use ubantu on it. There are word proessors and stuff for it right?

I'd say go with xubuntu (for speed), and get OpenOffice from the repositories. It's basically the same as microsoft office, even opens MSoffice documents(not 2007, but there are workarounds), except it's free.

[martix_agent]

sounds like a good plan. Now where can i find boot disks for a clean hard drive?

[L1nUx_r0ot]

Originally Posted by martix_agent

sounds like a good plan. Now where can i find boot disks for a clean hard drive?

do you mean an installation disk for a hard drive with nothing on it?
just snag it up from http://www.xubuntu.org

or do you mean on to clear the drive?
the xubuntu disk will format your drive when you install

or if you want to clear the hard drive off thoroughly, hit up Darik's Boot and Nuke:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
It's going to be installed on a clean disk. so i need a bootable copy of the installation.

[hurdlebeast]

hmm..any tips on making ubuntu run faster? i have a 1.8 ghz dual core processor and two gigs of ram..it's still slowing up on me. would getting rid of some packages help (or are they like programs on your hard drive?)

[martix_agent]

Originally Posted by L1nUx_r0ot

do you mean an installation disk for a hard drive with nothing on it?
just snag it up from http://www.xubuntu.org

or do you mean on to clear the drive?
the xubuntu disk will format your drive when you install

or if you want to clear the hard drive off thoroughly, hit up Darik's Boot and Nuke:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

It's going to be installed on a clean disk. so i need a bootable copy of the installation.

[L1nUx_r0ot]

Originally Posted by martix_agent

It's going to be installed on a clean disk. so i need a bootable copy of the installation.

all the install disks are bootable.

[hurdlebeast]

make sure your bios is set to check the CD drive before it checks the hard drive

[martix_agent]

Originally Posted by hurdlebeast

make sure your bios is set to check the CD drive before it checks the hard drive

that's a noobie mistake

alright,I can't find xubantu anywhere. help?

[L1nUx_r0ot]

Originally Posted by martix_agent

that's a noobie mistake

alright,I can't find xubantu anywhere. help?

because it's xubuntu

http://www.xubuntu.org

and

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso.../7.10/release/

and if you're really struggling

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso...sktop-i386.iso

[martix_agent]

ahhh. thanks. I'm basically an idiot.

any suggestion on which version to get?

[L1nUx_r0ot]

7.10 Gutsy Gibbon for i386, aka the 3rd link i gave you above.

[hurdlebeast]

and just wait till hard heron comes out

actually i saw many huge improvements from feisty fawn to gusty gibbon. props to teh tech team at ubuntu.

[TonyD]

I was unawares of this until nows:

<Sharna> i dont do linux tho
<Snooky> it solves all the world's problems
<Sharna> world peace too?
<Snooky> actually, let me check
<Sharna> k
<Snooky> ahh, here we go:
<Snooky> Summary of changes from v2.4.20-rc2 to v2.4.20-rc3
<akpm@digeo.com>:
o Change mark_dirty_kiobuf() to use set_page_dirty() instead of SetPageDirty(). The latter fails to move onto mapping->dirty_pages(), which breaks filemap_fdatasync()
o PROVIDES WORLD PEACE
<Snooky> as of kernel 2.4.20-rc3, linux has world peace
<Sharna> amazing
<Sharna> why dont more people know about this

So I recently switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, a distro of the KISS variety. So far I'm very happy with it, and I guess this officially makes me a "Linux Geek" since I've left the "noob" realm. That's all; just a useless update of my computer using habits.

[L1nUx_r0ot]

I remember this thread.

An update for me is that I'm sporting Debian Lenny with ion3 tiled window manager currently. It's a bit of a minimal install considering there's no desktop environment, and I have to admit I like it that way. What's everyone else's current linux distro status?