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It is amazing how many devices use the Linux/Gnu kernel, cable/satelite TV decoders, access points, routers, GPS's .... The list is long... And it will move into refrigerators and many appliances......

I would say wrong... Unix users will feel comfortable in a Linux environment whereas Dos and Windows are two completely different environments, windowing , multitasking...

FreeBsd is a more Unix like distro...
This may give some background...
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
and this:...

It will mature in the bottle but will reach a point where it gets a bit vinegary...

I very seldom need wine as I find all the apps I need on Linux.. In an absolute emergency (which may be once a...

I had my Lubuntu tray icons disappearing... They were there, got the menus using right/left click etc. Have seen the problem on the Net and forum, don't remember where, so here is what I found.....

http://weburbanist.com/2012/05/07/free-universal-construction-kit-bridges-generations-of-toys/ :D

Oops, I didn't see a newer driver in jockey, the latest one was no good, so I installed from outside the repo, made a note to watch the repo and when the driver arrives, I will reinstall... thanks!

The nvidia 173 driver fails with an error that it can't open the video device. I tried to install the latest driver from the Nvidia site version 285.05.09 which does not install because it does not...

Got it working using the rt3070sta driver from the Ralink site.
It needs two changes, one in the code to resolve usb errors when loading the module,
another renaming the file RT2870STA.dat and...

I'm about to try this myself:



From here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsEdimax

If you are having trouble with 10.04 install using "Startup Disk Creator" and a usb stick, I tried a SD card instead of the stick, and using the same process succeeded. The usb stick install always...

+1
Torrent is best, for checking the file and reducing load on the server.

Is Google becoming too powerful?
Is there a danger of one organization controlling the info we receive from the Internet?
Is this the time to support other search engines like Yahoo to try and...

Well here are almost 4000 doing panoramas and posting to Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/perfectpanoramas/

and another 55000 more doing hdr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/
only in these...

Here's an article from a South African online newspaper

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/dumisanimagadlela/2010/01/15/self-test-for-ubuntelligence/

I had excellent results with hugin first time round, with no special tweaking, here's the result:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4271684568_dd195a1256_b.jpg

Linux is for females, males are also allowed to use it!

This is why...

Richard Stallman - Free Software Briefing WSIS-2005


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Someone else had the same problem in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=203877
that was way back in 2006
I don't know if it's relevant
and here:...

Could you work as a seperate X screen rather than Twinview, Mine works fine that way.

Delete your .xsession-errors file from a console to zero the error log
reboot the machine
run into your problem once
and post the .xsession-errors file (in your home folder)

FAT won't store Linux ownership and permissions, unless you back up into a tar file

I haven't noticed any stunning differences in speed, as a user, which for me is more relevant than a benchmark.

What is a real pain in the rear end is lack of support for resizing and moving.
I...

Agreed,
cp -a
is a great defragmenter,
If you have unallocated space on your drive, one copy may suffice,
just update yor fstab file and maybe grub, if it's the root file system that moved.

Well not replace, that's a little insulting to Ubuntu, I would recommend an upgrade (moving to something better) . The change involves breaking barriers, people want what they are used to so they...