▓ Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings. [Megathread] Natty alpha 2! :D ▓

[MackTheHunter]

Games work for me.

Also Macs make useless .ds_store files.

Steam just plain doesn't work for me at all on Ubuntu 10.04. Possibly because of the newest version of Wine?

Also, I'm tempted to try out 10.10 on a partition.

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[Sheath]

Mac isn't decent.  It's just like Ubuntu with a price tag.

Lol @ incomprehension of what Mac OS is. Thats about as valid as claiming a microwave is a toaster with a price tag.

[brickybob]

Lol @ incomprehension of what Mac OS is. Thats about as valid as claiming a microwave is a toaster with a price tag.

Those are two different things, Mac is based on Unix, Linux is a Unix clone.

So again, Ubuntu with a price tag.

[Visage]

Bump.

Downloaded the new Ubuntu to see how far it's come since I last used it like 3 years ago, I booted it from CD and went to connect wirelessly to my internet, I typed in my WEP key and it kept disconnecting and reconnecting rapidly with the internet not working, every 20 seconds it would ask to re-enter the key, trying to run any program on it gave an input/output error, and eventually it froze up completely and for some odd reason had tiny screens from starcraft 2, which I played like 2 days ago on windows. I restarted and then it just had a loading bar endlessly and wouldn't reboot. I really wish I could be a linux guy but it is still a piece of stuff ):

[MackTheHunter]

EDIT: Ubuntu 10.10 is apparently perfectly stable on a partition install. I have not tested Wubi yet.

The reason you are getting errors is because 10.10 does not support LiveCD/USB booting as well as 10.04 does. If you want to test Ubuntu, get 10.04. If you want Ubuntu installed, g'head and get 10.10, or 10.04. It's up to you.

[Menen]

I might try it now :O

[Visage]

-rage-

Kind of stupid to make the default download a version that can't even install. I am DLing the stable version but I bet $20 it will do near exactly the same stuff.

[tails]

I've not had any problems with 10.10.

[BlackMod]

I've not had any problems with 10.10.

Sometimes my computer will freeze, the monitor, keyboard, and mouse will just freeze...but i can still hear music O.o

[MackTheHunter]

Bump. So tell me, sir forums, Unity or GNOME?

YOU DECIDE.

I'm playing around with Unity right now on 10.04 desktop, and I must say this is quite nice. Except no compiz. :c

[MackTheHunter]

Another bump.

Spending a day with Macs is not a fun job. I had to format my iMac G4 like 3 times... Leopard doesn't run too well on it. :c

[Sheath]

Spending a day with Macs is not a fun job. I had to format my iMac G4 like 3 times... Leopard doesn't run too well on it. :c

Fool you once, shame on it. Fool you twice, shame on you. Fool you a third time, what the forget is wrong with you.  

Also I opt for XFCE when I deal with Linux.

[MackTheHunter]

Fool you once, shame on it. Fool you twice, shame on you. Fool you a third time, what the forget is wrong with you.  

Also I opt for XFCE when I deal with Linux.

Fool you once, shame on it. Fool you twice, shame on you. Fool you a third time, what the forget is wrong with you.  

Also I opt for XFCE when I deal with Linux.

It originally had Leopard (I have no loving clue how my dad got it on there since the G4s do not disc drives that read dual-layer discs...) and it was slow as forget so my dad told me to format the whole thing and throw 10.2 on it (the original OS that came with it). Then, since that OS was so old and unsupported, I upgraded it to Panther (10.3), which had problems with downloads (DMG files would always show up corrupted for no reason). My dad just said forget it, put Leopard back on there.

But how would we do it?

Used the Firewire utility on my mom's macbook and connected the two machines together. Installed Leopard onto the G4 through her Macbook. Mission accomplished (once it finishes installing).

ANYWAY, back to Linux.

I upgraded to 10.10 to toy around with it on a partition.

As far as I can tell, Maverick is working fine. Maybe it's just liveCD/USBs that it hates?

EDIT: Yes, it's definitely just the LiveCD/USB it hates. I just tested 10.10 on a thumb drive, then CD... Both were miserable wrecks. If you want 10.10, INSTALL IT!

Also, updated poll with more shells for Linux

[Miga]

Those are two different things, Mac is based on Unix, Linux is a Unix clone.

So again, Ubuntu with a price tag.

Not even.
Mac OS is basically a proprietary version of BSD, an open source operating system. Apple adds their no ew-ware into it, makes the license proprietary (since you can do that with BSD), and then releases it.

Basically, when you buy OSX, you're paying for a copy of BSD with proprietary components and DRM in it.

[Visage]

I just ran the wubi loader and it installed 10.10 fine, no problems so far. I am so rusty on linux though last time I used it was ubuntu 8 I think. Also bin files aren't working properly. I am using chmod a+x first and the when I try to run a bin just doing ./binname.bin it says failed to extract ): I am guessing that is user error though somehow. Also I could have sworn there was a program you could download called like package manager that allowed you to just double click .bins and they would extract, if anyone can help me out with that that would be nice, google is no help. Also when I right click .jars and make them executable how do I execute them? Google oddly won't help with that either.

EDIT: Nvm about the executing jar files, I had to restart after getting java and now it has the option to execute with java.