Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18 October 2011 16:36, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Francis (Grizzly) Smit
On 18/10/11 16:36, Heracles wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10 the only choices are unity

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10 the only

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Simon Males
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Henare Degan henare.de...@gmail.com wrote: In all seriousness it's been OK fighting^Wusing it today but that's because I'm not using advanced features like two whole monitors. Since it took Linux about 10 years to get multi-monitor working last time I'm

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 13:31:59 Ken Foskey wrote: A gear will appear near your name, you can then select classic Gnome from the start up. Personally I have moved to XUbuntu and xfce. Seems to work OK for me so far. I did this by installing xubuntu and then using the gear wheel to select

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Jeremy Visser
I wish it was green. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread James Linder
On 18/10/2011, at 8:32 PM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Henare Degan
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 23:32, Simon Males s...@sime.net.au wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Henare Degan henare.de...@gmail.com wrote: In all seriousness it's been OK fighting^Wusing it today but that's because I'm not using advanced features like two whole monitors. Since it took

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Henare Degan
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 23:51, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: I wish it was green. Have you tried openSUSE? :P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] MAC sleep - freq scale

2011-10-18 Thread James Linder
G'day all (long story omitted) I'm trying to install (any, but tried various ubuntu and SuSE) on my mac. All easy (but the EFI bios makes a compelling case to dual boot, not single boot) [The efi uses hard disk and os utils to set bios stuff] Running OSX the freq is 2.7G and my quad core runs

Re: [SLUG] MAC sleep - freq scale

2011-10-18 Thread peter
James == James Linder j...@tigger.ws writes: James G'day all (long story omitted) I'm trying to install (any, but James tried various ubuntu and SuSE) on my mac. James On the two distros I tried freq gets throttled to 1.6, 2.2 and James 2.7G Idle at 1.6 and the machine gets HOT Mac runs at

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread gonzo01
Just use Linux Mint 11 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
Heh .. I was using 11.04 to Get Stuff Done but with a move of house I decided to get Debian 6.02 up on the other drive again and have not looked back since. I did not realise what I was missing .. great screensavers, for one. If you are battling with *buntu, you should go back to the source.