[GNUz] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[John Ring]

Hi,

I don't currently use Linux, but may do in the future at some point when I
have more time to learn it.  That meeting time clashes with another
meeting, so I can't attend them.

John Ring


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Rik Tindall <ask at infohelp.co.nz> wrote:

> is working well in liveDVD session..
>>
>> But anything ('Unity') that removes the standard multi-desktop
>> FOSS/Linux distro experience, ain't real GNU/Linux!
>>
>> Tests continue.
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Six here at the monthly workshop
>>
>
> Seven showed up in all, one just to get the 12.04 LTS iso: no one had that
> with them, but the broadband onsite works well enough usually.
>
> This post from a trusty 12.04 install - GNOME 'classic - no effects'
> option. Will use it until there's something worth migrating to - probably
> Mint 17 over 14.04.
>
> On the Unity 14.04 I struck a bug where System Monitor (and then an
> installed Synaptic package) wouldn't display, though sidebar said they were
> running. Was this because I had a 32-bit Ubuntu DVD, running on the i3
> quad-cores at the lab (that have 4GB RAM)? At home, on a Core2 Duo box, the
> same DVD didn't produce that fault (3GB RAM).
>
> But I've tried a native install of this now, with Unity working as it
> wants to. First try of the MATE 1.8 unsupported mod isn't nice though,
> generating a boot error then having no panels or any control menus when it
> started. At F2 the terminal font was tiny illegible but "reboot" got me
> back to work eventually..
>
> Will test the 64-bit 14.04 next.
>
>
>  Regards
>>
>> Rik
>>
>> pp Freenix GNUz
>>
>
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