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Xubuntu seems to be out now: http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/precise/release/d... I've been teaching the beta for a while now, I like it. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS comes with new vagrant, puppet and arduino 1.0. And with Xubuntu, you can use a traditional desktop. Some of my experiences teaching with the beta http://terokarvinen.com/2012/xubuntu-12-04-lts-on-vappu
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If replying to a comment with "Upvoted" is unproductive, what's more productive about saying "Downvoted"?
I don't always down vote, but when I do I prefer to leave a comment. I've probably down voted someone less than 20 times on HN, but when I do I like to leave a comment as to why. Its been the case where I've been down voted and wondered why. His comment isn't a troll comment and looking at his past comments he seems to be reasonable, intelligent, and otherwise a productive member of HN. I wanted him to know why I dow…
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What ard0r said about TwinView. I'm anxiously awaiting TripletView from Nvidia... ard0r, if you were to recommend an ATI card which had three display ports, what would it be? And, as a guy who has used nvidia with Linux for the past, oh, 14 years or so, can you tell me why you seem reluctant to recommend an ATI (AMD)? Am I inviting trouble by purchasing one?
The proprietary drivers have worked OK for me, but I've had issues with playing video. I just couldn't get smooth framerates. The radeon driver was worse in that aspect. I swapped in two nvidia cards and video looked much better. It should be fine for general use and I'm still trying to make the ATI setup work. I don't need 3D, just video. I have a 5870 eyefinity 6 that has 6 display ports, but those are no longer ma…
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Thanks. My flickr account is http://www.flickr.com/photos/phil-jackson/ but the more recent photos are of my son so you might want to page a couple of times.
You ought to consider making a set or collection for wallpaper-able images. Some of these are great.
Been using this for the past month or so - performs well, stable, and I'm still getting used to the HUD. Once I become a master of the HUD, I'll be all set. I did have to do some tweaking to the default workspace management keybindings to be truly happy with the install, however. But if someone is coming in without any preexisting biases, the defaults may suit them just fine. (Hit the Super or "Windows" key for a gui…
Just to be clear, you have to hold the Super key to see the keyboard shortcuts. Also, here is a good overview of the Unity shortcuts: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...
I'm here to collect my OSS karma as I contributed a couple of the wallpapers to this one.
Downvoted. Twilight frost is an awesome background though. You should add more info like "Hey, a little OT, but here's how the process works. Etc" to avoid down votes for lack of contribution.
The process for choosing an Ubuntu wallpaper goes thusly:
* A new, public flickr group is created.
* People bung their photos/art in there.
* The previous 'winners' choose the next wallpapers.
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Is Unity proprietary software? If it was open source I'm surprised it has not been forked by now.
Disclaimer: My knowledge may be out of date. People have tried to package Unity for other distributions, but those efforts have failed. One of the main problems was the patches that Canonical applies to GNOME libraries (to make Unity work) and to applications (to make them integrate with Unity). If someone wanted to fork Unity they'd have to find a way to handle this to get it fully working on any distribution beside…
https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch
Note the insane amount of packages, most of which are patched versions of packages.
I just spent over an hour last night upgrading one of my laptops to 11.10 because 12.04 was still beta. I guess I should have just waited one more day.
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The proprietary drivers have worked OK for me, but I've had issues with playing video. I just couldn't get smooth framerates. The radeon driver was worse in that aspect. I swapped in two nvidia cards and video looked much better. It should be fine for general use and I'm still trying to make the ATI setup work. I don't need 3D, just video. I have a 5870 eyefinity 6 that has 6 display ports, but those are no longer ma…
Thanks....I may try an AMD. I don't need 3D support either, but I do need compositing support (does no 3D mean no compositing? Not sure...). Not having compositing on the linux desktop these days means you're a second class season. Both Unity and Gnome3 require it to function...if you don't have it, you have to fall back to Unity2D (incomplete user experience) or Gnome 2 (no longer supported. KDE actually does the be…
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Downvoted. Twilight frost is an awesome background though. You should add more info like "Hey, a little OT, but here's how the process works. Etc" to avoid down votes for lack of contribution.
Your downvote was lost in the sea of upvotes making this my most upvoted comment ever... The process for choosing an Ubuntu wallpaper goes thusly: * A new, public flickr group is created. * People bung their photos/art in there. * The previous 'winners' choose the next wallpapers.
So, you had two of your photos chosen for this release or no? Is that rare?
Thanks for the context in how it works. Do you see any trends in what gets picked over what doesn't. I assume more abstract is usually better?