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I wish GNOME 3.2 would come out already! I want to see how much better it is. You know if there's an ETA on it, Brettison?
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This man knows his stuff! Honestly though unless your an Arch user or a Gentoo whore you all are more than likely using Gnome 3 with Fedora as they sort of go hand and in hand now.
Fedora like Ubuntu and Gnome is on a 6 month cycle. Gnome 3 should be out in late October, but the 1st major distro shipping with it as default will be Fedora 16. The Fedora 16 release schedule can be found HERE! ETA for Fedora 16 release is Nov. 1st as everything to pushed back a week from the end of October. Fedora 16 IMO is your best bet to really try out Gnome 3.2!
PS: It's Linux and OSS and shit so as always stuff is susceptible to change!
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Sweet thanks guys, should be great. 
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I recently started using Ubuntu a few months ago. I'm currently in an IT program at school, so I duel booted my laptop with Ubuntu 11.04 (other partition has Windows 7).
I haven't really done much in Ubuntu, but I'm liking that it's faster and generally has less problems than Windows does.
I was wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for a desktop-note/sticky program to use in Ubuntu? So far I've found Xpad, but I'm not really liking it much -- looking for something a bit neater. Suggestions?
Also, any good places to look out for general tips/tutorials about things in Ubuntu? Thanks!
I haven't really done much in Ubuntu, but I'm liking that it's faster and generally has less problems than Windows does.
I was wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for a desktop-note/sticky program to use in Ubuntu? So far I've found Xpad, but I'm not really liking it much -- looking for something a bit neater. Suggestions?
Also, any good places to look out for general tips/tutorials about things in Ubuntu? Thanks!
It really should be great, the Shell aside I'm really looking forward to their Documents software (no idea if it'll make it to 3.2 though) and to see how they'll create their integrated experience.Andrex said:Sweet thanks guys, should be great.
I think Ubuntu still ships with Tomboy, a note program that's quite good.Haziqonfire said:
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Brettison said:
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll tinker around with it.
I've been viewing OMGUbuntu for a while now as well, though I was looking for more tutorial type things. I found this, but I'm not sure if it's any good -- Full Circle Magazine. I've been trying to look up a place that has good tutorials for learning to code in Python, their tutorials are decent but I was wondering if anyone knew of another source perhaps?
PS - Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions
. I want to eventually add more to the Open Source community.Vanillalite
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Haziqonfire said:Thanks for the recommendation, I'll tinker around with it.
I've been viewing OMGUbuntu for a while now as well, though I was looking for more tutorial type things. I found this, but I'm not sure if it's any good -- Full Circle Magazine. I've been trying to look up a place that has good tutorials for learning to code in Python, their tutorials are decent but I was wondering if anyone knew of another source perhaps?
PS - Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions
No your good. Sounds like you want more how to code tutorials which there are alot on linux based sites. You seem to need more programming tutorials rather than linux tutorials though.
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Brettison said:No your good. Sounds like you want more how to code tutorials which there are alot on linux based sites. You seem to need more programming tutorials rather than linux tutorials though.
Well, I prefer something in a Linux environment, it seems easier to program in Linux than it does in Windows.
Though, I'm mostly trying to learn more about Ubuntu in a general way, through programming/cmd line/neat tricks/tips, etc. lol.
I've become pretty comfortable with Compiz so far and customizing different aspects of the OS so far though.
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Not sure if you've seen this already (probably have), BUT Python in the Ubuntu Documentation!
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Brettison said:
I haven't seen that. Thanks! .Vanillalite
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Haziqonfire said:
NP! I aim to please!
Puppy is my goto distro I have on hand that I use when shit fucks up for people, and I need Linux to fix things. So I'm downloading the latest version as we speak so I can have the most up to date version on hand!
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Oh yeah I forgot to post that I finally got an answer about my crazy Ubuntu Alpha trouble in the official Ubuntu next IRC channel. Got someone today that linked me to a bug list on launch pad that also had a link to a 2nd bug page as well. They seemed similar if not just two bugs for the same thing honestly.
Either way they both seemed to describe my current issue in some way, and both creators had two different series ATI cards which confirmed to me I was in the right place as I have an ATI card as well. Plus both users reported 2d Unity works perfectly fine.
There isn't a fix yet however, but it has been flagged basically as mission critical. I just hope they figure out WTF is going on. One poster said he tried with and without the proprietary drivers with no luck, and one poster said they got through to turn off unity in compiz which fixed things. As soon as he turned it back on BOOM fucked to hell and back.
I just hope they get a fix done by time this shit goes beta in like 10 days.
Either way they both seemed to describe my current issue in some way, and both creators had two different series ATI cards which confirmed to me I was in the right place as I have an ATI card as well. Plus both users reported 2d Unity works perfectly fine.
There isn't a fix yet however, but it has been flagged basically as mission critical. I just hope they figure out WTF is going on. One poster said he tried with and without the proprietary drivers with no luck, and one poster said they got through to turn off unity in compiz which fixed things. As soon as he turned it back on BOOM fucked to hell and back.
I just hope they get a fix done by time this shit goes beta in like 10 days.
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I got Chromium OS to boot on my netbook and another person's laptop! Unfortunately Wi-Fi didn't work so I couldn't get past the network select screen. It's the Vanilla build by Hexxeh, and I still don't know if I'm on board with booting someone else's Chromium OS but it's good for giving it a shot, I think. I'm about to boot it on my desktop, which uses a USB dongle for Wi-Fi, so I'm crossing my fingers for it to work. Third time's the charm eh? Funny thing is that I know Ubuntu has the right drivers by default for the dongle, but Windows 7 doesn't, and from what I understand Chromium is more related to Ubuntu than other Linux distros, so it may just work. Will report back soon!
It's the Vanilla build by Hexxeh, and I still don't know if I'm on board with booting someone else's Chromium OS but it's good for giving it a shot, I think. I'm about to boot it on my desktop, which uses a USB dongle for Wi-Fi, so I'm crossing my fingers for it to work. Third time's the charm eh? Funny thing is that I know Ubuntu has the right drivers by default for the dongle, but Windows 7 doesn't, and from what I understand Chromium is more related to Ubuntu than other Linux distros, so it may just work. Will report back soon!Vanillalite
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Andrex said:I got Chromium OS to boot on my netbook and another person's laptop! Unfortunately Wi-Fi didn't work so I couldn't get past the network select screen.
Why did I think you already had a CR-48?
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Brettison said:
Because Google sent thousands of them out and I'm their #1 fan.
But they didn't see fit to send me one.
They didn't even finish the darn program, didn't they only send out like half of what they said they would?Oh well. I got a free Google TV (Logitech Revue) around the same time the Cr-48's were being sent out. So it's not all bad.
Anyways, I wasn't able to get it to boot on my desktop, but that may be because I wrote the CrOS image to an SD card, and have to use a SD-to-USB adapter. Ah well. One day! One day I will enjoy the fruits of Chrome OS.
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Andrex said:Because Google sent thousands of them out and I'm their #1 fan.
But they didn't see fit to send me one.
Oh well. I got a free Google TV (Logitech Revue) around the same time the Cr-48's were being sent out. So it's not all bad.
Anyways, I wasn't able to get it to boot on my desktop, but that may be because I wrote the CrOS image to an SD card, and have to use a SD-to-USB adapter. Ah well. One day! One day I will enjoy the fruits of Chrome OS.
How the fuck did you get a free Logitech Revue? That would be pimp to get! I want one!
Then again I'd rather have the CR-48 than the Revue. My best friend got one of those things, and he wishes he would have saved his cash. LOL
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Well the Honeycomb update is gonna be absolutely killer. Android Market apps on the big screen! Plus maybe Chrome apps if they don't gimp that for whatever reason.
How did I get it? I think I entered some dev thing, let me find the post... Ah, here we go.
It's still a nifty little device but it's sort of hamstrung for me since I don't have the right cables or connectors or adapters to make it interface with my DirecTV box. Still, it has the best web browsing experience on a TV I've used (though coming off the Wii, that wouldn't be hard.) They keyboard is fantastic.
But yeah. All eyes are on Honeycomb. When that hits Google TV is gonna blow up and be absolutely huge, I think.
How did I get it? I think I entered some dev thing, let me find the post... Ah, here we go.
It's still a nifty little device but it's sort of hamstrung for me since I don't have the right cables or connectors or adapters to make it interface with my DirecTV box. Still, it has the best web browsing experience on a TV I've used (though coming off the Wii, that wouldn't be hard.) They keyboard is fantastic.
But yeah. All eyes are on Honeycomb. When that hits Google TV is gonna blow up and be absolutely huge, I think.
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Problem is he bought his at launch, and it's sucked since. Granted the keyboard is descent, but still.
Anyways the new Puppy Linux is ball'n like well always. That is all!
PS: I swear I feel like sometimes I spam up our Linux thread. I just want to be so active in this thread and this thread to be active in general!
Anyways the new Puppy Linux is ball'n like well always. That is all!
PS: I swear I feel like sometimes I spam up our Linux thread.
I just want to be so active in this thread and this thread to be active in general!Melhisedek
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Do you guys use Unity or something else with Ubuntu?
I can't seem to decide
I can't seem to decide
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Melhisedek said:Do you guys use Unity or something else with Ubuntu?
I can't seem to decide
I used Unity with 11.04, but that was on my dekstop with no issues with my ATI card. So I personally had no real issues. Shits a little more taxing so if you have an older system I'd just install Xubuntu instead (which I tried out and also loved).
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I like how Unity looks but I have no idea where everything is I'll need to tweak it a bit I guess. Started with minimize, close and maximize buttons
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Look at my pics I posted above. 11.10 is gonna fix some of that in Unity with the categories and tabs and such. Also easiest way is to open anything is to just type in search. Honestly it's the same for every OS these days, but we are use to browsing the drop down/ pop up lists verses up just typing in the box. It's faster that way in say Win 7 as well.Melhisedek said:I like how Unity looks but I have no idea where everything is
At any rate alot of people problems with both Unity and Gnome Shell are gonna be addressed in their 1st major updates this fall. Granted some issue is it's just a big change, and people aren't use to it yet. Even if the new setup might be better we have the old setup ingrained in our brains. Just hard to get beyond that.
This fall should be another interesting time for Nix fans!
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Fedora Alpha Announcement!
Fedora 16's 1st Alpha is out for those that want an early look into the next wave of stuff. Comes with GRUB 2 now as well as the development release of Gnome 3.1! So go get your Fedora on peeps!
Fedora 16's 1st Alpha is out for those that want an early look into the next wave of stuff. Comes with GRUB 2 now as well as the development release of Gnome 3.1! So go get your Fedora on peeps!
What do you guys use for monitoring disc space usage? I was just trying to find out if I had some huge unnecessary software lying around on my partitions and doing that in a file manager seemed painful.
I googled myself to the du command which seems like a good way to do it, but are there perhaps any easier ways?
I googled myself to the du command which seems like a good way to do it, but are there perhaps any easier ways?
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$ du -hs /usr/*
297M /usr/bin
274M /usr/include
1,8G /usr/lib
207M /usr/lib32
3,3G /usr/local
11M /usr/sbin
2,3G /usr/share
16M /usr/srcdf -h does it for me. With Arch, there's a package called pacgraph which shows the disk space that every installed packages takes. There should be a similar utility available with your distro.peakish said:
Here an example of the console output of the pacgraph -c command:
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Autodetected deb.
Autodetected Arch.
Loading package info
Total size: 4312MB
214MB tucan
189MB neverball
141MB hplip
104MB boost
90MB inkscape
84MB linux
80MB xbmc
80MB chromium
79MB xulrunner
70MB gimp
66MB llvm
62MB samba
58MB sdlmame
41MB linux-headers
40MB bzr
37MB opera
37MB subtitleeditor
34MB kde-l10n-fr
32744kB nspluginwrapper
31469kB subversion
29748kB firefox-i18n-fr
28372kB vim-colorsamplerpack
26460kB cmake
24100kB gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
23008kB yaourt
22510kB brasero
22012kB xorg-docs
21232kB xscreensaver
20048kB pathological
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15623kB xbindkeys
15244kB cups
15224kB audacity
15154kB man-pages
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13516kB git
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11460kB kde-meta-kdeutils
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772kB utimer
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528kB zip
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492kB kdebase-plasma
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328kB netkit-bsd-finger
316kB esound
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304kB wireless_tools
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240kB cpufrequtils
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52kB mupen64plus-ui-console-hg
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16384B unclutter
12288B pbget
8192B aurvote
4096B radeon-initrd
4096B imgurbashA good writeup about Linus and Linux by Ars; March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux
doesn't even boot in my vmware player. good job whoever is at fault.Brettison said:Fedora Alpha Announcement!
Fedora 16's 1st Alpha is out for those that want an early look into the next wave of stuff. Comes with GRUB 2 now as well as the development release of Gnome 3.1! So go get your Fedora on peeps!
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Hrm is it possible to write that Fedora live CD image to a USB stick? Usually there's a dedicated USB version...
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Sweet.
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Running the Fedora 16 alpha right now. Smooth as heck! I love it. GNOME 3 > Unity for sure. Only problem, and this is a problem for all Linux, is fonts. I need my Windows fonts. Ubuntu has an easy way to grab them from the Software Center, trying to locate the equivalent for Fedora is a bit harder...
Chrome in GNOME is kinda funny. Back/forwards/stop stand out a bit more. Thanks to sync it took 5 seconds for almost everything to transfer over. I wish Chrome OS worked on my desktop, would love to give that a spin too.
It picked up my Wi-Fi dongle (so maybe it's just Linux that has the drivers for it -- Windows 7 didn't) and Microsoft Bluetooth mouse too. Although it doesn't recognize that middle clicking on a page means to scroll...
For some reason when I tried the F15 live CD I don't remember it being this slick. Window overview, workspaces, the semi-dock, and even the black bar at the top (whatever it's called) all come together in a very cohesive and pleasing way. I'm having way too much fun going into the overview and making workspaces.
It's really something else. I might wait until Fedora 17 if I do decide to switch, but I'm actually really really excited for when that day comes. My only complaint is the apparent lack of a Software Center analogue, and I'm still not sold on how you access all your applications (the Windows/Applications toggle doesn't really work as well conceptually as the rest of the shell.) And I also have to say I'm still also not crazy about the merging of running tasks and program pinning, but that's less of an issue in Fedora for some reason. I absolutely hate it in OS X and in Ubuntu but I'm more OK with it in Windows 7 and Fedora.
To sum it up in one word: elegant.
Anyways, pics, just because.
Ubuntu has an easy way to grab them from the Software Center, trying to locate the equivalent for Fedora is a bit harder...Chrome in GNOME is kinda funny. Back/forwards/stop stand out a bit more. Thanks to sync it took 5 seconds for almost everything to transfer over. I wish Chrome OS worked on my desktop, would love to give that a spin too.
It picked up my Wi-Fi dongle (so maybe it's just Linux that has the drivers for it -- Windows 7 didn't) and Microsoft Bluetooth mouse too.
Although it doesn't recognize that middle clicking on a page means to scroll...For some reason when I tried the F15 live CD I don't remember it being this slick. Window overview, workspaces, the semi-dock, and even the black bar at the top (whatever it's called) all come together in a very cohesive and pleasing way. I'm having way too much fun going into the overview and making workspaces.
It's really something else. I might wait until Fedora 17 if I do decide to switch, but I'm actually really really excited for when that day comes. My only complaint is the apparent lack of a Software Center analogue, and I'm still not sold on how you access all your applications (the Windows/Applications toggle doesn't really work as well conceptually as the rest of the shell.) And I also have to say I'm still also not crazy about the merging of running tasks and program pinning, but that's less of an issue in Fedora for some reason. I absolutely hate it in OS X and in Ubuntu but I'm more OK with it in Windows 7 and Fedora.
To sum it up in one word: elegant.
Anyways, pics, just because.
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I actually hated Linux fonts as well, but I'm really digging the font Canonical got made up for Ubuntu a few versions ago. They are expanding on that too, and making more variants!
Something Beautiful Distilled in Type!
PS: I just switched Chrome to that font, and everything is cool for me!
Something Beautiful Distilled in Type!
PS: I just switched Chrome to that font, and everything is cool for me!
MS fonts are non-free so Fedora doesn't ship with them at all in their repositories. I thought RPMFusion would carry them but apparently not. Here's a guide here for getting them (and improving rendering in general). I haven't tried it myself so I can't vouch for it.Andrex said:Running the Fedora 16 alpha right now. Smooth as heck! I love it. GNOME 3 > Unity for sure. Only problem, and this is a problem for all Linux, is fonts. I need my Windows fonts.
http://fedoraunity.org/Members/khaytsus/improve-fonts
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peakish said:
Sweet, thanks!
Any word on if Fedora is gonna have their own Software Center? Seems to be all the rage nowadays (was Ubuntu the first of all the desktop OS's?)
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Andrex said:
Most all of the distros had repositories, and most have had a GUI version for a while. Ubuntu appeared to be the 1st to move to a Software Center. For a while they actually have had the regular GUI version of their repository called Synaptic running along side of their Software Center. Synaptic actually had more files and such, but wasn't setup to really push apps like an appstore. Canonical actually is doing a rehaul of their Software Center look which if they can stay on schedule should make 11.10. Once that rehaul is out I think they plan on dropping Synaptic (which has been slightly controversial).
On a side note Ubuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot is now running virtually perfect for me. The ATI regular Unity bug that made logging in and using Oneiric virtually impossible (if you weren't in Unity 2d) got fixed this week in the updates. That was my only major bug.
I also had an issue with flash (flash issue in linux? noooo can't be lolololol), but I found a BADASS extension someone on the Ubuntu forums created for Firefox. It's called Flash-Aid and it basically has a wizard that runs and uninstalls all the random flash shit on your system and then installs whatever should be installed to currently work. Chrome said Flash was disabled, and FF said it wasn't installed. The software center wouldn't install flash either. However I used the FF extension, and boom the wizard cleaned shit up and installed a 64bit flash beta. Boom both FF and Chrome worked with flash! Oh and yeah and it installed 64 bit flash which is usually a separate pain in the ass issue, but the Flash-Aid plugin was fucking ball'n!
So I'm virtually bug free here in Ubuntu 11.10 going into the weekend. This is GREAT news seeing as how the schedule is for the Beta 1 to hit on Sept. 1st aka next Thursday! All of you Ubuntu haters can then download it and try it in virtual box or as a live cd so you can hate on the up and coming release early!
PS: BTW for Markot who said the font always looks tiny in Linux Chrome has a slider in the Font settings for the Standard Font that can be moved from Tiny to Huge. If you think it's small just adjust the slider a bit and boom done.
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Back with another set of Server questions for hardcore Linux GAF! I don't remember what number I'm on so I'll start over.
1) How do I purge old kernels?
my grub menu shows me a 2.36.10 and a 2.36.8 upon booting up. I figure I never use .8 so is there a way to just get rid of it easily?
2) Sometimes when I do sudo apt-get upgrade some stuff doesn't upgrade?
Like it'll say 3 files not upgrade or something. Any reason why it does this or how to get around it? If I go into apptitude normally I can just install them from there. Why won't it work from my command line?
1) How do I purge old kernels?
my grub menu shows me a 2.36.10 and a 2.36.8 upon booting up. I figure I never use .8 so is there a way to just get rid of it easily?
2) Sometimes when I do sudo apt-get upgrade some stuff doesn't upgrade?
Like it'll say 3 files not upgrade or something. Any reason why it does this or how to get around it? If I go into apptitude normally I can just install them from there. Why won't it work from my command line?
Chinese Electric Batman
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Does anyone know anything about when/if fglrx will be supported in GNOME3?
Returning to my disc usage question, I found an interesting program in ncdu, a simple ncurses interface for du. Pretty cool. I love ncurses stuff soooo much.
I heard something about the 11.9 drivers but can't remember where I read that or if it was more than speculation, sorry... I hope it'll be fixed quickly since my next desktop probably will be AMD powered.Chinese Electric Batman said:
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Omg Ubuntu! has a cool article on a new decent looking shell for Gnome 3. For all of you Gnome 3 folks you should check it out!
Here is the creator's page on Deviant Art.... Tiheum's Deviant Art Page!
Here is the creator's page on Deviant Art.... Tiheum's Deviant Art Page!
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BTW Ubuntu Alpha broke for me again using regular Unity. Unity 2d works fine like always though. Beginning to think Unity 2d is where it's at.....
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Is there an easy way to axe Unity in the new Ubuntu? I heard the architecture is GNOME 3.
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Andrex said:
What do you want? I mean are you saying you want Gnome Shell?
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Hi LinuxGAF, I'm currently a Mac user, but I installed Ubuntu and FreeBSD on partitions on and external hard drive of mine with unetbootin, and then installed rEFIt on my laptop, but whenever I try to boot into Linux with rEFIt, it doesn't work. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?