Comments on: S03E18 – Laughing Gas

By: csgeek

csgeek — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:08:41 +0000

The feature where Ubuntu just starts installing as you’re answering questions. That was around years ago on Caldera (before they turned evil) and I haven’t seen it since. I’m glad someone else has started doing that again.

Though my favorite part of that installer is still missing. While it was installing packages it let you play pacman:

http://linuxbook.orbdesigns.com/ch03/images/btlb330i.jpg

By: Mike Walter

Mike Walter — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:24:55 +0000

Laura might want to look at UberStudent.org for her post graduate work. It is built on top of Debian and Ubuntu. Lots of pre-installed and pre-configured tools for higher level student research, like Zotero and Mendeley. I upgraded to Maverick under it and it ran just fine before and after. It’s running on my old AMD 2500 desktop and on my ACER AspireOne D250 netbook (without Unity, not enough graphics power).

By: Zac

Zac — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:35:13 +0000

Good podcast again.

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Latitude 2100 netbook and everything worked out of the box, and it’s running perfectly. I am using the desktop version because I can auto hide the menu bars to get max vertical screen space, because on this netbook it’s a little short (Dell has fixed this on their next version). Ubuntu font looks great and have it as default in OpenOffice. Ubuntu One is improved and I find very useful. The Ubuntu One indicator should be installed by default though. The option to install the codecs at install made life so much easier. Well done to all.

I would like to see more work done at a faster pace on the Software Centre to make it the centre for all software, and to make software available both paid and free. Software availabiltiy and installation (I know there is plenty of free software) is one of the keys to greater Linux adoption on the desktop for the non-techy populus.

By: Roddie

Roddie — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:43 +0000

I’m enjoying the redesign of The Fridge (am I really the only person who reads that site??) but am wondering when the ghastly Planet Ubuntu is due for a facelift; it looks worryingly like something I would have knocked up in FrontPage 10 years ago!