It begins with a 'U' and ends with 'buntu'.

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I'm trying out Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I like what I see so far. Anyone else using it? It configured itself pretty nicely without any glitches (so far!).

I saw a version of UAE for it, have any Linux users ran the premier Amiga emulator successfully and is it worth downloading?
 
I tried it once, but I had problem with both wireless cards of different manufacturer. I installed WinXP instead. Don't think that this was done in my main computer system, but for customer's service at the lobby of our hotel.
 
It does a very thorough job of simplifying everything about Linux that doesn't need simplifying, and leaving the actual arcane horrors of complexity untouched. :dry:
 
Well look around for a few screenshots of ua, it's not as far developed as winuae, but that counts for every other platform then windows.

I have been running it a few times, one missing thing as far as I know is the real hard disk support. It might be possible to mount over kernel the file system, but that can get complicated.

For normal emulation needs it is far enough.

The menu system in the new ubuntu is a bit to close to windows metro for me - but I like ubuntu a lot.

In my previous company we ran it for 3 years. I installed office 2003 over wine (api windows emulator).

Also winuae runs that way and a lot of windows software. Mostly a slighter older version. That way even some versions of internet explorer can get going.

It's quite fun os I like it a lot. It might be good to have a multiboot anyhow. (you never know you need it) and you can have virtual machine for software needs. Vmware server is free, but in open source land virtual box can run a windows xp inside ubuntu wich is enough to get some apps going.

In my experience it is safe to upgrade the system. Although I always waited for a week or two. I would suggest never do a distro upgrade as suggested when a new distro comes out, without some reading around. Mostly they tend to work quite well, but it could be it breaks some special stuff you had confugured on your system.

Like for me it presented the metro look a like, wich you can switch off, but it is a bit time consuming then to find it out.

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Also when we had windows xp, I had to re install it every year just to make it work a bit quicker again.

With ubuntu - once the special bits like (network) it is trouble free. You might need a few forum subscriptions and ask some questions there.

The community is not as friendly as here, but you will get answers.

You'll never really need an anti virus nor anti spyware solution.

You also need to think about wich tools youd like to use. For me I used the ext2 file system wich is not the default, but I did that because it had a wealth of fixing tools availble.

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Then as far as google results it looks ubuntu (debian based) is the most popular at the moment.

That can be important to get app x running, since it is then more mainstream, the community is larger.. and you have also debian community to resort to..

(not that others are bad there are some others like fedora, suse etc..)

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Then for experimentation purposes it is real nice to install the server image and build the system further up with apt-get install it figures dependency's so you also can make a very light system looking at other window managers etc.. The sky is the limit, and you can make your own distro out of that as well.
 
Ive run ubuntu for quite some years now. Switched to kubuntu (kde) due to better tools there, i.e. konversation (irc), kdevelop, krusader (norton commander) and alot more.
These can run under gnome too, but ive experienced some problems.
Otherwise im running kubuntu on all my computers with no issues. Portable, netbook and stationary.
Ive run one of the uae,s dont remember which. Doesnt beat winuae nor the real thing :)

@jvdboss. Vmware player runs great in ubuntu too, free and less services than vmware server

And regarding upgrading.. it can take a loong time, much faster to backup the user dir, and make a fresh install, and restore the user dir. I only backup the config files for konversation and my mail app. Because of plenty of changes there

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I tried installing Mint Maya (Mate edition) a couple of weeks ago - and I have to say it feels like coming home!

A few rough edges to sort out (it uses the glitchy version of Compiz from current Ubuntu, for instance).

Haven't had a chance to try some of the more obscure tricks yet - be interesting to see whether Mint makes it as difficult to administer a machine remotely as Ubuntu does.
 
Some really nice observations there. I found 10.04 really troublesome to use but probably because I installed offline and without everything plugged in. The most frustrating thing about it was non-recognition of my 24" Benq monitor, and the refusal to download and install drivers for the Radeon HD 6850, nor to detect it and update through the updater/drivers tool.

So I wondered if upgrading to the latest version, whilst connected to the internet might help matters and it seems to have.

Since installing ubuntu I have been reading some linux information online which points to the latest edition of mint being the more user friendly and all-round best linux distro for ex-windows departees. For now I'm getting on reasonably well with ubuntu but if I have any showstoppers I might try mint before I run back to billy gates with my tail between my legs.
 
mike_cc said:
Some really nice observations there. I found 10.04 really troublesome to use but probably because I installed offline and without everything plugged in. The most frustrating thing about it was non-recognition of my 24" Benq monitor, and the refusal to download and install drivers for the Radeon HD 6850, nor to detect it and update through the updater/drivers tool.

So I wondered if upgrading to the latest version, whilst connected to the internet might help matters and it seems to have.

Since installing ubuntu I have been reading some linux information online which points to the latest edition of mint being the more user friendly and all-round best linux distro for ex-windows departees. For now I'm getting on reasonably well with ubuntu but if I have any showstoppers I might try mint before I run back to billy gates with my tail between my legs.
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Download the drivers from the ati site and unzip them in the same directory then in the terminal you want go into your downloads directory

cd Downloads

now run the installers using

sudo sh "name of installer"

enter your password and it will run the installer. Just do a normal install like anything in windows and then reboot. You now have your 6850 working.

You can always wait for ubuntu 12.10 to come out in October as this will carry kernal 3.5 and there is a lot of support for newer gfx cards too.
 
morcar said:
mike_cc said:
Some really nice observations there. I found 10.04 really troublesome to use but probably because I installed offline and without everything plugged in. The most frustrating thing about it was non-recognition of my 24" Benq monitor, and the refusal to download and install drivers for the Radeon HD 6850, nor to detect it and update through the updater/drivers tool.

So I wondered if upgrading to the latest version, whilst connected to the internet might help matters and it seems to have.

Since installing ubuntu I have been reading some linux information online which points to the latest edition of mint being the more user friendly and all-round best linux distro for ex-windows departees. For now I'm getting on reasonably well with ubuntu but if I have any showstoppers I might try mint before I run back to billy gates with my tail between my legs.
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Download the drivers from the ati site and unzip them in the same directory then in the terminal you want go into your downloads directory

cd Downloads

now run the installers using

sudo sh "name of installer"

enter your password and it will run the installer. Just do a normal install like anything in windows and then reboot. You now have your 6850 working.

You can always wait for ubuntu 12.10 to come out in October as this will carry kernal 3.5 and there is a lot of support for newer gfx cards too.
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What file format is the sudo sh command used on?
 
AmiNeo said:
What file format is the sudo sh command used on?
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They're shell scripts. Installers that require this technique usually end in either .sh or .run
(Occasionally you'll find one that needs sudo /bin/bash instead of sh.)
 
I have been falling in love with XUbuntu, XFCE is getting so much better, almost feels like a full desktop :)
Very lightweight, and relatively painless to setup.

Also use Debian 7 Wheezy "Testing" on 2 of my other computers, again running XFCE, and just the apps I need installed, so chromium, vlc and virtualbox, nice and lean :)

For amineo:
sudo sh
simply means execute the shell script as super-user(root)
And the filetype is simply a text file script.
 
Ah the script files. Okay got it. Just there are a few different file types Linux programs come in and I havent gotten used to all of them yet :lol:

Thanks! :thumbsup:


Personally I'm liking Cinnamon... Also a fan of Gnome... XFCE feels a bit too... i'm not sure, childish styled? The icons look like they were designed for kids or something to me. All chunky and rounded, with pastel-like colour scheme. It's subtle but it puts me off using it. It almost feels like Cbeebies running a GUI for Linux. :lol:
 
AmiNeo said:
Ah the script files. Okay got it. Just there are a few different file types Linux programs come in and I havent gotten used to all of them yet :lol:

Thanks! :thumbsup:
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Use the "file" command to quickly find out the filetype :thumbsup:
 
joe384 said:
AmiNeo said:
Ah the script files. Okay got it. Just there are a few different file types Linux programs come in and I havent gotten used to all of them yet :lol:

Thanks! :thumbsup:
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Use the "file" command to quickly find out the filetype :thumbsup:
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Yeah Linux is very similar to MacOS in command and design :) I believe they both have Unix to thank for that.

I'll adjust eventually, I just need to spend more time experimenting and reading up. I've got too comfortable with Windows... :picard
 
In *nix either a binary or shell script is usually executable. (Has the "x" bit set).
Properly archived should have this conserved when unzipping, etc.

Edit; oh already answered... Missed that this was a multipage thread on the smartphone. :P
 
I am going for KDE more and more as time goes on and i used to hate it with a passion at one point. Now I cant do without it.
 
I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now, started on 10.10 and i'm now rocking 12.04. Was a bit off with the newer interface, but got used to it now. I only do light things with Ubuntu though (web browisng, burning the odd disk, watching movies). Generally I'm very happy with it!
 
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Further to anything I may have said previously, I'm really not enjoying Ubuntu 12.04! :(

Between poor driver support, inflexible settings and a truly irritating desktop, :Doh: I'm going to try out something different. Mint seems to have the big thumbs up in 2012 so that's where I'm likely headed. :thumbsup:

In the meantime, I've reinstalled XP on a new hard drive in my old rig, so that I have some compatibility with my mahoosive collection of software that doesn't run under linux, and can run the latest WinUAE.

I'll let you know how I get on with the minteh flava :mrgreen:
 
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