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What genius decided it was necessary to re-authorize an authorized scp connection during an established session?

Had a crashed and trashed system, installed new HD, while copying backups the...

I have, in the past, had all kind of problems upgrading from one release to the next. And have pretty "vocal" about the troubles.

HOWEVER, I just upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04 and it worked...

They switched away from Redhat when it went commercial. Ubuntu LTS was the best around at the time.

Ya right - using what crystal ball to see where Ubuntu was going 8 years ago?

I DO blame Canonical for trying to shove such a radical user interface change down users throats. THAT'S why our...

I've seen a few constructive suggestions. Thank you folks!

But a couple of basic questions ...

1. Can anyone tell me if Ubuntu/Canonical plan to continue to provide the GNome shell as an option...

Not consultant - business software vendor. In 2004 GNome on Ubuntu LTS was the best around. Clients switched from the then going-commerical Redhat because that path became very shaky. Subsequent...

Yes it is.

I contend my post is not "silly". It comes from weekly damage control with corporate clients because of Unity and the cost of upgrading.

We have 12.04 running on evaluation machines at client...

Our corporate clients have been using GNome for years - at our recommendation.

Thanks - we'll do an eval on the latest Xubuntu release. It wasn't that great a few years ago. But maybe it will be...

I "sold" the notion of Ubuntu and it's will-always-be-open-and-free to several corporate clients years ago. Now it's weekly damage control because of Unity. Luckily they only have Unity on a few...

Whoa, mental? Wrong. I'm very tired of handling damage control with hundreds of corporate users who took my advice some years ago to use Ubuntu. Not one client likes Unity. Pretty much every one has...

From what we've read Ubuntu is going to drop GNome support entirely in favor of Unity. Is that accurate?

Commercial users do not perform major upgrades often. It's just too expensive. So if Unity...

Given Ubuntu has chosen to force their ultimate "Unity or nothing" approach on the Linux community it is time to find a replacement distro.

The overly simplistic user interface is entirely...

Well I tell you what - Unity is utterly worthless for people who make a living on a desktop. With 50" of flat panels a very few buttons and having to remember all the unusual names of the software I...

After much digging and working different approaches I discovered an HD was going bad. Worked that issue where it went from behaving badly to dead in about 4 hours. Luckily it was just a back-up...

Something was changed during the upgrade from 3.0.0.16 to 3.0.0.17 because VMware will not run any of the existing 64-bit VMs --- even when I reboot into the older kernel.

The VMware Player 4.0.2...

The Update Manager popped-up today with an upgrade to the 3.0.0.17 kernel. After upgrading Virtualization Technology (VT) is somehow no longer compatible with VMware. I use several virtual machines...

Odd. I'm using the provided nVidia driver. Maybe I need to upgrade to that from nVidia. Just been a little spooky about break it :P

Prior to 11.10 I always added the latest from nVidia.

Since upgrading and the many updates that issue was cured. Don't know by what or when.

But do have another that hasn't been fixed. The video on 11.10 is so slow that multiple ads and/or players in...

I see the same behavior. Not sure what that's about. Working on it. Will report back here if I find a solution.

Upgrade Note

Just did the distribution upgrade to 11.10 Oneiric and the previous audio setup was carried-over cleanly. Worked the first time.

Kudos to the 11.10 migration folks.

Yes - but the circumstances just don't work for us. We need some library upgrades that are only supported on the 3.x kernel.

And it's not so much 'risk free' as giving us a straight-forward...

Ok - although my point is still valid - that is commercial customers have specific production and personnel concerns that don't work well with Unity - we think we've found a standard Ubuntu 11.10...

I went with the Gnome 3 Fallback solution. With some tweaking in many places it looks and behaves much like Gnome 2 on previous releases.

What "we" really need is a group of Gnome hardcore...

SOLUTION -- Do this:

1) Goto Applications, Accessories, Text Editor.

2) Then File, Open and click the pencil so you see the Location line.

3) In the Location line type:
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