Ubuntu 10.10

5uspect

You can get it here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

You can also get a lot of distros from ftp.heanet.ie if you want a fast download.
The only issue I have with ubuntu is wireless drivers with a broadcom card. Tho I've sorted it out with ndiswraper.

You shouldn't need to use the command line at all but it would be recommended to see what it can do.

AntiRip

I've installed it now long side Win 7. No wireless adaptor working. Went into Win 7 and the adaptor isn't working either now. Such a pain in the bum :rolleyes:

EKRIUQ

tman wrote: »

Press alt+f2 and type in "update-manager -d"

Cheers that did the trick, upgrading now I hope:o

5uspect

AntiRip wrote: »

I've installed it now long side Win 7. No wireless adaptor working. Went into Win 7 and the adaptor isn't working either now. Such a pain in the bum :rolleyes:

Is there a physical kill switch (Fn+F2 for example)?
You may need to enable it in Win7 first.

Also in Ubuntu go to system>administration>hardware drivers and enable any third party wifi drivers.

Also open a terminal (yeah I know ) and type iwconfig
Is there a wlan0 entry and what does it say?

AntiRip

5uspect wrote: »

Is there a physical kill switch (Fn+F2 for example)?
You may need to enable it in Win7 first.

Also in Ubuntu go to system>administration>hardware drivers and enable any third party wifi drivers.

Also open a terminal (yeah I know ) and type iwconfig
Is there a wlan0 entry and what does it say?

Thanks for replying, damn I've started a new thread as I didn't want to hijack this one

Will give them a go and get back to you

AntiRip

5uspect wrote: »

Also open a terminal (yeah I know ) and type iwconfig
Is there a wlan0 entry and what does it say?

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated

5uspect

So it looks like you are getting your wi-fi device on eth1.
You need to change the wireless interface id of network-manager-gnome to use eth1 instead of the default wlan0.


I use wicd for my wi-fi, I find it better than the gnome-network-manager.
You can install it from the synaptic package manager if you wish.

This is a nice UI where you can select and install software from a repository of popular open source software.

Ardent

Jonathan wrote: »

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

EDIT:
If you don't like terminal:

Thanks, those terminal commands did the job for me. Couldn't get over how long it took to install 10.10 once the upgrade files were downloaded!!

d'Oracle

I have been on Ubuntu for about a week.
Linux Newbie, 10.04

Should I bother upgrading?
I didn't want to wait the extra 2 days for 10.10.

Jagera

What is everyone's opinion on the Unity interface? I'm not finding it very friendly so far.. some examples

- when I press the "Web" category (Blue icon in below image) it simply opens Firefox.

- When I press Applications, then "Internet" I can't see Transmission Torrent. But its installed. If I search for "torrent" then KTorrent comes up....

Should I bother upgrading?

I am the same as you. 1 week on 10.04, and upgraded 2 days ago. I prefer the 10.04 interface.

source

bw wrote: »

What is everyone's opinion on the Unity interface? I'm not finding it very friendly so far.. some examples

- when I press the "Web" category (Blue icon in below image) it simply opens Firefox.

- When I press Applications, then "Internet" I can't see Transmission Torrent. But its installed. If I search for "torrent" then KTorrent comes up....




I am the same as you. 1 week on 10.04, and upgraded 2 days ago. I prefer the 10.04 interface.

Why didn't you install the full desktop version, it's exactly the same as 10.04, you could always do as i did and download unity through the software center. You can then choose between the two at login.

I do quite like the unity GUI, it's nice and handy to use. But yeah there are one or two little bugs in it.

Stokolan

foinse wrote: »

Why didn't you install the full desktop version, it's exactly the same as 10.04, you could always do as i did and download unity through the software center. You can then choose between the two at login.

I do quite like the unity GUI, it's nice and handy to use. But yeah there are one or two little bugs in it.

You can do that with the login with the netbook version anyway. You can also go back to the older 10.04 style, by selecting the 2d version.

Khannie

d'Oracle wrote: »

I have been on Ubuntu for about a week.
Linux Newbie, 10.04

Should I bother upgrading?
I didn't want to wait the extra 2 days for 10.10.

I wouldn't bother.

I did the upgrade myself at home and it went grand, but I'm sticking with 10.04 in the office for now.

Stokolan

Decided to put 10.10 on my main pc as a second OS,

Have a few minor issues with it that I'll have to try fix.

1 - No sound. Creative xfi card. Showing up in properties but just no sound coming out of it.
2 - Flash videos are jumpy and freezing.

Anyone got any ideas on whats the best thing to do for these? Or a link to an idiots guide to fixing them :P

Jagera

Khannie wrote: »

I did the upgrade myself at home and it went grand, but I'm sticking with 10.04 in the office for now.

I rolled back to 10.04 yesterday.

EDIT - by rolled back, I mean format & reinstall. I didn't perform a rollback function.

Bluefrog

Just to let anyone interested know, upgraded from Lucid this morning without any major issue on my Inspiron 9400.

Graphics feel distinctly snappier for some reason. Also Pulse audio (signatel card) which had been giving me no end of problems in Lucid with Skype etc seems to work great in Maverick.

Nice to see Empathy 2.32 which seems to have brought back audio to MSN and both Audio and video to Yahoo - haven't tested these yet though.

Only thing that broke was Burg but a quick re-install with the graphical Burg manager and an update took care of that.

All in all, pleased I took the plunge.

Jonathan

I think i'll leave my laptop with 10.04. It's an OSXless (Lucid/Win7) MacBookPro 5,5 and I don't really have the time at the moment to get fix it if the upgrade breaks one of the many EFI/HFS+/Mactel tricks...

Might do a clean install on the desktop later though.

Tar.Aldarion

just put it on gfs netbook, the desktop version. The netbook version had more bugs...lots of flickering screen and nothing much happening. If you get an error installing from usb about a configuration error, go into syslinux config and remove 'ui' from the last line and then install. It will work fine then, what a pain.

Sparky

Stokolan wrote: »

1 - No sound. Creative xfi card. Showing up in properties but just no sound coming out of it.

This issue I have on the desktop for a while. Doesnt bother me too much, but for the moment I've decided to run it in VMware on another monitor beside Win7

pickarooney

I don't think I'll bother with this, yet again. I can't see any real point in these releases and am just going to stick with my tried and trusted Jaunty install.

the_real_dave

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't think I'll bother with this, yet again. I can't see any real point in these releases and am just going to stick with my tried and trusted Jaunty install.

My server still runs Jaunty, my main desktop runs Karmic, my second desktop runs Lucid, but my laptop and VNC Encoding Server runs Maverick The lappy uses LUbuntu 10.10

matrim

I was having HD problems with the Karmic install on my laptop so got a new HD and installed Maverick last night. No driver issues on a Dell Inspiron 6400 and it feels much snappier and looks better than Karmic.

So far everything is working fine but I've still to install a couple of things.

bnt

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't think I'll bother with this, yet again. I can't see any real point in these releases and am just going to stick with my tried and trusted Jaunty install.

They don't demand that you update every six months - that's why they do Long Term Support (LTS) releases too. The last LTS release was 10.04, so if you're on a slower update cycle, that's the one for you.

I have intermittent issues with suspend on a T400 and I suspect it is to do with the newer intel graphics driver.

It also works well with a W510 after you do some fiddling. A really annoying issue was Gnome reverting to its default theme when I was using the proprietary Nvidia driver and Compiz. I am pretty sure one of the causes was having the hardware mute button on at boot! It was somehow causing a timeout with some sound daemon.

Ardent

I'm a new convert to Ubuntu and I have issues with suspend too on 10.10 (Dell Latitude D600). The laptop doesn't wake up and I have to cut power and start again. From what I can gather, this issue was fixed in a previous release of Ubuntu but the problem surfaced again in 10.04. I find that unbelieveable and I can totally understand why people here are hesitant to upgrade to new releases.

At the moment, my work around is to get the laptop to hibernate rather than suspend when the lid is closed. Takes a bit longer to get back into things but thanksfully Ubuntu has a quick load time.

Mycroft H

I've said it before and i'll say it again.

Jaunty was and is still the best ubuntu version :pac:

Stuxnet

Ardent wrote: »

I'm a new convert to Ubuntu and I have issues with suspend too on 10.10 (Dell Latitude D600). The laptop doesn't wake up and I have to cut power and start again. From what I can gather, this issue was fixed in a previous release of Ubuntu but the problem surfaced again in 10.04. I find that unbelieveable and I can totally understand why people here are hesitant to upgrade to new releases.

At the moment, my work around is to get the laptop to hibernate rather than suspend when the lid is closed. Takes a bit longer to get back into things but thanksfully Ubuntu has a quick load time.

your supposed to create a swap space partition same size as your ram, or no more then 4 gigs for hibernation to work properly, before you install, then tell the installer ...this is my /swap

DeepBlue

I'm on Xubuntu 10.04 LTS atm and wondering if it's worth upgrading to Xubuntu 10.10.
Any opinions or pointers on where I could find info on whether the upgrade is worthwhile?

Understandably Ubuntu info tends to swamp Xubuntu info.

rfrederick

I've done the upgrade on all of my machines (including my VirtualBox VMs), and they all went grand except for an older P4 machine with an older NVIDIA card. The NVIDIA-96 driver, which the card requires, doesn't work with 10.10 at the moment. The maintainer at NVIDIA admitted that he hasn't had enough time to update the driver and would get around to it soon (a complete cop out IMO).

I've been impressed so far as far as the boot time goes. I've noticed a significant increase in boot performance on my office machine, which has to mount a number of network drives (NFS and SMB). The only thing I've encountered problems with (other than the above) is x3270: the menus don't readily respond to a click-and-hold, and there is a very noticeable amount of artifacing when performing operations within the terminal window.

Mycroft H

rfrederick wrote: »

I've done the upgrade on all of my machines (including my VirtualBox VMs), and they all went grand except for an older P4 machine with an older NVIDIA card. The NVIDIA-96 driver, which the card requires, doesn't work with 10.10 at the moment. The maintainer at NVIDIA admitted that he hasn't had enough time to update the driver and would get around to it soon (a complete cop out IMO).

I've been impressed so far as far as the boot time goes. I've noticed a significant increase in boot performance on my office machine, which has to mount a number of network drives (NFS and SMB). The only thing I've encountered problems with (other than the above) is x3270: the menus don't readily respond to a click-and-hold, and there is a very noticeable amount of artifacing when performing operations within the terminal window.

Install the driver direct from nvidia manually?

It really isnt that hard