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That's an unsupported upgrade method. Please issue "update-manager -d" in a desktop install, or "do-release-upgrade -d" on a server or other command line environment.
I guess this is a tiny point, but is there really no supported way to update from the command line?
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Should be possible via update-manager soon enough. Even major upgrades (6.04 -> 7.04 etc) have been possible for a year or two at least.
Minor niggle: it was 6.06; they delayed that release by two months in preparation for their very first LTS release.
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That's an unsupported upgrade method. Please issue "update-manager -d" in a desktop install, or "do-release-upgrade -d" on a server or other command line environment.
I guess this is a tiny point, but is there really no supported way to update from the command line?
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That's an unsupported upgrade method. Please issue "update-manager -d" in a desktop install, or "do-release-upgrade -d" on a server or other command line environment.
I guess this is a tiny point, but is there really no supported way to update from the command line?
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Poor sleep/wake stability was the single biggest reason I gave up on Linux. I was running Ubuntu on my HP nc8430 and had to rush out the door so I closed the lid and didn't wait to make sure it went to sleep properly. I tossed my backpack into my car and when I came back a few hours later I found out the machine never went to sleep. It got so hot that the enclosure actually melted and warped. Probably lucky it didn't…
Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
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How is FreeType intrinsically better than the Windows font renderer? Microsoft has the advantage of subpixel font rendering (aka ClearType) although admittedly that because it's patented ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#Patents ).
FreeType has enabled the bytecode interpreter; those patents have all expired. http://www.freetype.org/patents.html Unless you are talking about a different set of patents.
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For what is worth, suspend/resume works on my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 (Sony Vaio F-series) and it is completely broken in Ubuntu 10.10. Touché.
For what it's worth, the battery lasts half as long in Ubuntu than Windows (Dell Studio XPS 16). Also the fan is always on moderately loud even if I am only browsing the web or the lid is closed, and it heats up under the trackpad more than Windows to a degree that is annoying.
The RC has not actually been released. Various news sites are reporting it prematurely to get extra traffic as usual, and the Ubuntu Release Team would like people to wait [1] for the official release announcement, which will be posted to the release blog [2] , and the ubuntu-announce mailing list [3]. [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/ubuntu-10-10-release-cand... [2] http://release-blog.ubuntu.com [3] https://l…
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Nope, I'm a programmer. I just don't like brightly colored notification icons all over my GNOME taskbar. They're distracting - looks (and discoverability, and other UI aspects) directly affect usability, I'm surprised you say you don't get that. As a counterpoint to your argument, I'd say OS X has more professional UI designers than Windows or the Linux OSs and is generally regarded as being more usable too.
I'm surprised you say you don't get that. Thanks for reading my comment so charitably ;-) What I'm saying is that beauty to the professional user and beauty to an innocent bystander are different things. A professional actually cares more about usability and certainly cares about aesthetics as they apply to usability. The way a professional perceives a desktop will be very different from the way a casual user does. B…
Can I dual boot ubuntu on my mac? I am looking to get a mac to replace my netbook.