Re: [Hampshire] OggCamp 11 - it's (nearly) in Hampshire this year!

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Whitmore [2011-04-12 10:04]: > We (Ubuntu UK Podcast & Linux Outlaws) have just announced that we'll be > holding another OggCamp this year. If you've not heard of it, it's the > biggest and best free (as in beer) community-run FLOSS event in the UK! > > OggCamp 11 will be held on the 13t

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Hugo, On Tue, April 12, 2011 10:20, Hugo Mills wrote: >Running it in a VM will lose you all of the graphics acceleration > from the main machine -- you're effectively running it on a machine > with no 3D graphic card (which is, I guess, what it's complaining > about). I tried the SuSE-b

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
> >I was a very long time user of WindowMaker but lack of development > >has meant that it is now a very old fashioned interface and I'd be > >reluctant to go back to wmaker and give up the 'bells& whistles' that > >gnome provides. > > > Not having any high-powered machines, and having jumped to O

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:20:12 +0100 Hugo Mills wrote: > > the fedora version also failed to load the gnome 3 environment and I > > even get the same message trying to install it into VirtualBox on > > my main system which has AMD AM2 X2 5000 nVidia MCP61 Motherboard > > with a Sapphire ATI Radeon

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Hugo Mills
B1;2403;0cOn Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:09:05AM +0100, John Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:11:53 +0100 > "Dr A. J. Trickett" wrote: > > > Good luck with your travels in desktop environment land... > > PS > > the fedora version also failed to load the gnome 3 environment and I > even get the

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:11:53 +0100 "Dr A. J. Trickett" wrote: > Good luck with your travels in desktop environment land... PS the fedora version also failed to load the gnome 3 environment and I even get the same message trying to install it into VirtualBox on my main system which has AMD AM2 X

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Owain Clarke
On 12/04/11 08:39, john lewis wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0100 Mark Johnson wrote: On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote: Has anyone played with it yet? I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as a good way to see how well it wo

[Hampshire] OggCamp 11 - it's (nearly) in Hampshire this year!

2011-04-12 Thread Tony Whitmore
Hullo fellow HantLUGgers! We (Ubuntu UK Podcast & Linux Outlaws) have just announced that we'll be holding another OggCamp this year. If you've not heard of it, it's the biggest and best free (as in beer) community-run FLOSS event in the UK! OggCamp 11 will be held on the 13th & 14th August at Fa

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread john lewis
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:11:53 +0100 "Dr A. J. Trickett" wrote: > Good luck with your travels in desktop environment land... well the first attempt was a failure, I tried running the openSuSE-Gnome-3 live CD on my backup system and initially it wouldn't boot at all (and it won't boot at all on my,

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
> > On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote: > > > Has anyone played with it yet? > > > > I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as > > a good way to see how well it works with your set up. There's some > > nice touches in there, but nothing to tempt me away fr

Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

2011-04-12 Thread john lewis
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0100 Mark Johnson wrote: > On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote: > > Has anyone played with it yet? > > I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as > a good way to see how well it works with your set up. There's some > nice touc