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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec

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Post by nailer » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 9:28 AM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #18

tsuraan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't resolutions be as high as the technology allows? Every OS that I know of offers scalable fonts, and a higher resolution allows for nice smooth fonts without hacks like anti-aliasing and cleartype. My 13.1" laptop has a resolution of 1600x900, my 4" Nokia 770 has a resolution of 800x480, and my cell phone's 3" display is 480x320. I don't think anybody's complaining about not being able to see their phone…

Because most web site designers assume 96DPI and set font sizes in pixels? Guys with 15" 1680x1050 laptops, can you tell me if you're comfortable reading dpreview.com with default font settings? Every OS that I know of offers scalable fonts There are more to it than just scalable fonts. Windows is essentially hardwired to 96dpi, only fonts scale, everything else does not: there are virtually no vector graphics involv…

Every web browser can zoom in on documents. I set default zoom to 150%. dpreview.com looks fine.

PS. Windows 7 has a proper scalable interface. I don't or use like Windows, but I tried it and it works well. You don't even need to restart the entire OS to change the setting anymore either.

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec

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Post by davidw » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 12:03 PM UTC

homme wrote: post #15

suhlash wrote: post #13

I spent the last three days converting my xps dell laptop from vista to ubuntu 8.10. I had to spend over 25 hours to get it to work properly. Things like trying to figure out how to make my dual monitor system work with only one of them rotated 90 degrees. It took so much searching and reading to make sure that what I was doing was not going to mess up everything else up to the point. I am no novice computer user. Th…

I purged my dell laptop of xp and installed ubuntu over it. Love everything about it except the loss of wireless. It even gave me 9 extra gigs on my hard disk, 6 more than the advertised disk space! If the linux community could step it up on the driver front for wireless cards it would be a beautiful thing.

The problem is often the manufacturers, not the people who write drivers:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 12:55 PM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #18

tsuraan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why shouldn't resolutions be as high as the technology allows? Every OS that I know of offers scalable fonts, and a higher resolution allows for nice smooth fonts without hacks like anti-aliasing and cleartype. My 13.1" laptop has a resolution of 1600x900, my 4" Nokia 770 has a resolution of 800x480, and my cell phone's 3" display is 480x320. I don't think anybody's complaining about not being able to see their phone…

Because most web site designers assume 96DPI and set font sizes in pixels? Guys with 15" 1680x1050 laptops, can you tell me if you're comfortable reading dpreview.com with default font settings? Every OS that I know of offers scalable fonts There are more to it than just scalable fonts. Windows is essentially hardwired to 96dpi, only fonts scale, everything else does not: there are virtually no vector graphics involv…

"Because most web site designers assume 96DPI and set font sizes in pixels?"

It's sad, but I had to lecture a web designer where I work. It's amazing how he insisted that was the only way and how every monitor in the planet should be set at the same density.

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec

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Post by jacoblyles » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 8:43 PM UTC

whatusername wrote: post #19

suhlash wrote: post #13

I spent the last three days converting my xps dell laptop from vista to ubuntu 8.10. I had to spend over 25 hours to get it to work properly. Things like trying to figure out how to make my dual monitor system work with only one of them rotated 90 degrees. It took so much searching and reading to make sure that what I was doing was not going to mess up everything else up to the point. I am no novice computer user. Th…

I spent 4 hours troubleshooting my neighbours computer (it's full of spyware). We basically got no-where with it in that time. The task of getting Windows to run right is not trivial.

Linux advocates should pay attention to the difficulties of installing and maintaining a Linux system in a modern computing environment instead of patting themselves on the back because Windows does some things worse. I gave up the first few times I tried to install Ubuntu. When I finally got it running I was unemployed and had the time to wrestle with it.

Flash and wireless still suck.