topleft of the window. :dunno
That wasn't why I switched......
I was just updating to Ubuntu 10.10. The installer did not like my set up. More specifically Grub2 would not detect my Windows installation. Fedora still uses the original Grub. This picked up everything without a hitch. I prefer Ubuntu to Fedora, but if I can't get it work on my hardware....
Grub2 has gone out of it's way to prevent any easy manual configuration. If "sudo update-grub" doesn't do the job, you have to be a super linux geek to analize things and figure out what's happening. The Ubuntu boards are filled with posts from people having Grub2 problems and an equal number of people saying "there is no problem, it's the users fault RTFM". Not sure if those people actually see what's going on. I've installed a lot of distros on a lot of different hardware so I am not a newbie...but there is so much to learn no one can know everything about even a single distro.
Mo Feb 07 2011 14:30:56 EST von Harbard @ UncensoredThat wasn't why I switched......
I was just updating to Ubuntu 10.10. The installer did not like my set up. More specifically Grub2 would not detect my Windows installation. Fedora still uses the original Grub. This picked up everything without a hitch. I prefer Ubuntu to Fedora, but if I can't get it work on my hardware....
Grub2 has gone out of it's way to prevent any easy manual configuration. If "sudo update-grub" doesn't do the job, you have to be a super linux geek to analize things and figure out what's happening. The Ubuntu boards are filled with posts from people having Grub2 problems and an equal number of people saying "there is no problem, it's the users fault RTFM". Not sure if those people actually see what's going on. I've installed a lot of distros on a lot of different hardware so I am not a newbie...but there is so much to learn no one can know everything about even a single distro.
wrooooong. you have to have the grade dr. prof rear. med. grub. alternatively the 16th DAN in bootloaders also fits in.
if you just want to get it fucking done run apt-get install lilo, edit the fucking text file with the 5 lines you need, run lilo and done.
and no, I don't need no os alike prompt working in a byzantine [tm by IG] syntax similar to other roman languages as mandarin chinese.
for that reason i've got GRML. the box won't boot? use grml to fix it, boot back into it.
all my so far tries to use grub ended at the 'useless waste of time'-threshhold of half an hour.
well, your obversion is correct; in fact grml was named by that; the letters you type to express your extreme discompfort with your current situation...
and thats the cd you pop in to change it again ;-)
Mini, and installed OpenNode; I now report that the performance I was getting before which I thought was good as "ass".
Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) got some bug up thier
collective butt about moving the max, min and close buttons to the
left side of a window. EVERYONE complained. They basically said
There's an easy fix, you have to configure metacity somewhere, there's lots of reference how to do it, but I forget what I did offhand.
The sad part is it shows that they want to be like the mac, even though this particular interface issue doesn't work since you're right near the File menu where as on a mac you're not so if you're spastic like me, you want to hit the file menu and you end up hitting the close button.
all my so far tries to use grub ended at the 'useless waste of
time'-threshhold of half an hour.
Nice to hear I'm not the only one who appreciates progress.
Unfortunately, I can't run VMware ESXi on it because I have an FXO card in it and my hardware doesn't support PCI passthru.
So ... VMware Server, or VirtualBox? Or something else?
well, unless you need windows/bsd vms I think vserver / virtoutzo is the right choice.
From comments around the intarwebs, you would think I was the only person (outside of the project members) who likes Gnome-Shell.
What I found annoying was that the VirtualBox running in headless mode offers no way to later come along and "attach" to the console. The non-free version does, but that doesn't help, does it. I had to install a VNC server on the guest.
It's come a long way in the last year or two since I first tried it. Bridged networking actually works properly now, and doesn't require any ugly hacks to the host's networking setup anymore. And the guest tools are good too; I liked being able to share a host filesystem without having to go to great lengths.
Unless by non free version you mean the non usb version. I use the usb version so maybe that isn't there in the non-usb version. But I thought the lack of USB support was the only difference.
hm, actualy the non free version is free to use for pretty much everything (even on cooperate environments), unless you're doing it in large scale deployments (ala roll it out on every workstation at your company etc.) so why not use that one?