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Posting from Ubuntu 5.04 PPC LiveCD. This is a great OS. Virtual desktops rule. I'm considering using this on my work PC.

Touque Guy wrote:

Virtual desktops rule.

Agreed. You can enjoy them on your Mac, too; I can't live without this program...

Pariah wrote:

I been lookin' for just exactly that sort of thing...shweeeet.

Glad I could help--like I said, I can't live without it. Once I saw the Fast User Switching animations feature, I was smitten.

An update for anyone who may have caught wind of my sufferings on my PB install, I got Kubuntu going on my T23 now, and it's running flawlessly. Found the TouchPoint, found the NIC. Posting this in Konquror, as a matter of fact (funny it looks about the same...)

I like it a lot, but I'm still disappointed about how unfriendly it was to my 'Book. I now understand the AirPort card--thanks resedit--and I suppose USB trackpads are a farily new breed, but c'mon... a mouse is a mouse.

Overall, in my limited experience with it, I can see how this could be the version that really gets everyday windows users on board with Linux. I hope for the best for it in that regard, and I see it living happily on my IBM for a good time to come. However, as for my mainstay machines--why mess with perfection? OS X is as good as an OS gets.

Edit: It works with my PB's Ethernet port now! YAY!

And now I am seriously done with trolling this thread...

Last edited by jrork777 (2005-09-25 3:25 pm)

I now understand the AirPort card--thanks resedit

You know what really sucks?
Linksys runs their routers on Linux. They have broadcom chips in them.
The only reason we don't have native broadcom drivers for Linux is because Broadcom won't release the source to their EXISTING driver that works with the Linksys routers.

I know they aren't obligated to - but geez, the hard part is already done - they have a driver.
If they would release the driver source, several things would happen:

a) very quickly, broadcom chips would be supported on a bunch of platforms
b) airport extreme would work (part of a) in Linux
c) they would get patches that would improve the performance of their driver in the Linksys routers
d) they sales would increase by - ah, hell, Linux is still niche enough that this point probably doesn't matter

2.12 is kind of new - 2.12.3 or so should be better.

yelowpunk wrote:

2.12 is newer than 2.12.3?

-Tim

The .0 releases (2.12.0) from gnome traditionally are a bit buggy - it takes a few point releases to get smooth.

The numbering system they (and many other) projects use -

N.NN.0 = major release
N.NN.x = minor updates since N.NN.0

If NN is odd, its a developer branch and almost always something broken.
They already have a 2.13 tree which is unstable - next major release will be 2.14.0, but there will be several point releases in 2.12.x series before then.