On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:24:00 +0100, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
On 25 September 2011 21:10, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone tried btrfs? The ability to stripe and mirror data across disks
of varying sizes really appeals.
I understand it is not production ready, but sounds really
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:58:44 +0100
Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro that meets the following
requirements:
- must work easily with a Huwei 3G dongle
- Gnome 2.x
- easy to set-up encrypted home dir
- makes good use of a modern
On 29 October 2011 00:58, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
I really
hope 12.04 maintains Gnome 2.x as 10.04. I did try Gnome 3 but discarded it
as it was not as obvious to use as the alternatives.
It won't. GNOME 2 will be disappearing from most distros over the next
year or so. Have
On 10/29/2011 10:24 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
On 29 October 2011 00:58, Imran Chaudhryichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
I really
hope 12.04 maintains Gnome 2.x as 10.04. I did try Gnome 3 but discarded it
as it was not as obvious to use as the alternatives.
It won't. GNOME 2 will be disappearing from
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:24:43 +0100
Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 29 October 2011 00:58, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
I really
hope 12.04 maintains Gnome 2.x as 10.04. I did try Gnome 3 but
discarded it as it was not as obvious to use as the alternatives.
It won't.
On 29 October 2011 11:35, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote:
Will Gnome 3 fallback mode always be there, or will it disappear in future
versions?
GNOME 3 fallback mode isn't on the CD and thus isn't installed by
default, the same goes for GNOME Shell on 11.10 and above.
However you
On 29 October 2011 11:43, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
I think Imran said he'd tried it but didn't like it. I didn't even
bother to try it in Debian as the live Gnome3 CD from someone else I'd
tried on my backup system defaulted to fallback mode and that was ugly.
My mistake. I
Hi all.
Have started using Mint on my Desktop. When I press the up arrow in
a terminal I get "^[[A". I assume it's because it isn't Bash,
because if I type bash it then starts behaving what I think of as
properly. I've searched on the web but I can't express my
On 29/10/11 01:03, Bryn Jones wrote:
I'd recommend Mint - Ubuntu with a shiny finish (and in 11 running
Gnome 2). The only thing I'm not sure about is encrypting home dir
(but I'm pretty certain you can).
Yes it should prompt you to encrypt
terms clearly enough to get a good answer. So I wander if
someone
could help me to set things up so that any terminal on any user
defaults to Bash
The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set
up the shell you want.
Defaults for new users can be
On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote:
The shell for each user is defined in /etc/passwd - just edit that to set
up the shell you want.
Defaults for new users can be set up by editing /etc/default/useradd .
HTH
Vic.
Great - thank you very much, Vic
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vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and
/etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you
adduser you get to choose what shell
Owain Clarke simb...@cooptel.net wrote:
On 29/10/11 14:25, Vic wrote:
The shell for each user is defined
** Alan Pope a...@popey.com [2011-10-29 12:31]:
On 29 October 2011 11:43, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
Msnip
OK, in neither case have I used the latest version of Gnome3 but have
decided it isn't for me. I think the developers have lost their way and
are inflicting their idea
On 29/10/11 14:50, Ian Grody wrote:
vipw to edit passwd file properly, / etc/shells are the available ones and
/etc/skel* are skeleton files for default env for new user shells. When you
adduser you get to choose what shell
Thanks
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On Saturday 29 October 2011 12:28:01 Alan Pope wrote:
I dont find any of the new stuff singing and dancing. The idea behind
GNOME Shell and Unity is that it gets out of the way and lets you get
on with your work. It mostly seems to do that for me.
For me, they just make it harder to do work.
On 29 October 2011 10:24, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 29 October 2011 00:58, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
I really
hope 12.04 maintains Gnome 2.x as 10.04. I did try Gnome 3 but discarded
it
as it was not as obvious to use as the alternatives.
It won't. GNOME 2
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