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[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Not the faintest. Just tried it, and it hung in the Gdriver window. I had to kill it.

[Alejandro24 575]

Not the faintest. Just tried it, and it hung in the Gdriver window. I had to kill it.

Well , I'm going to try another thing. What should be the window dimentions of the lot editor?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Far as I know, it is the standard windows default which is about 1/3 of the screen. I have to look at my wine prefix library. This used to work just fine. I am on wine-1.5.15

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Moved to my testbed: Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64) with wine-1.5.15

with all the fixes I could think of with winetricks. Still no soap. Something wrong in wine, I think.

  Edited October 19, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[Ocram's Razr 963]

When is the scheduled release date for the full (not beta) version of the new Ubuntu?

--Ocram

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

12.10 Released now.

Upgrading as I type. The Beta I've been running is just fine for my purposes. Everything seems OK, and in fact for the past couple of days, the Beta designator has disappeared, so I guess it is the same as the official release that I am now downloading to my main partition.

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Monday, Oct. 22, 2012.

Yesterday's upgrade using the software manager's -d option was an unmitigated disaster. Today, I saved my entire user space, downloaded the DVD, and did a rebuild from that. Works fine, but I have to rebuild a lot of stuff over the next week or so. Have no idea what went wrong with the upgrade (usual method).

Naturally, I got all the defaults with silly stuff I don't want, so now I have some weeding and planting to do. Kompozer (Mozilla) web page maker seems to have disappeared. More digging to do. Also, it beats me why they have removed the GIMP from the general distribution when the GTK package the desktop depends on stands for GIMP Tool Kit. I guess most people really don't want to do an image manipulation, when it comes to the Mom and Pop type users. They've stopped including the Synaptic package that lets you easily upgrade stuff (calls apt-get from a GUI). They want you to use the cumbersome Software Catalogue. Oh well, such is life.

  Edited October 23, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[Alejandro24 575]

Steam for Linux: Valve realesed the beta test.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I suppose you'd have to have a Steam Account to run it? This is another ploy to get into your machine and snoop.

[Alejandro24 575]

I suppose you'd have to have a Steam Account to run it? This is another ploy to get into your machine and snoop.

I suppose it is... But lets wait for the anouncements of the tests.

I have another problem with wine: yesterday Mono runtime and Gecko have been updated, now SC4 doesn't open . Not sure if I must to reinstall the game or wine. Ah, I was forgetting it: Wine 1.5.16.

Also, Android counts as Linux, right?

  Edited October 28, 2012 by Alejandro24  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I suppose you'd have to have a Steam Account to run it? This is another ploy to get into your machine and snoop.

I suppose it is... But lets wait for the anouncements of the tests.

I have another problem with wine: yesterday Mono runtime and Gecko have been updated, now SC4 doesn't open . Not sure if I must to reinstall the game or wine. Ah, I was forgetting it: Wine 1.5.16.

Also, Android counts as Linux, right?

I fail to see what mono and gecko have to do with SC4. However, I have 1.15.15 from my distro, and I am having lockup troubles with SC4. I suspect that whatever they did between 14 and 15 has been exacerbated in 16. My distro isn't up to that level yet, and thanks for the warning. If necessary, you can fall back to 1.4.1 which works.

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EDIT: I have up on the current version of 1.5 that I had and reverted to 1.4.1 (the dependencies are broken so it was a bit of a job). No more lockups. The problem is definitely something in wine.

Android is a good question. Is it just another desktop on top of Linux? Which kernel?

  Edited October 29, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[Alejandro24 575]

I fail to see what mono and gecko have to do with SC4. However, I have 1.15.15 from my distro, and I am having lockup troubles with SC4. I suspect that whatever they did between 14 and 15 has been exacerbated in 16. My distro isn't up to that level yet, and thanks for the warning. If necessary, you can fall back to 1.4.1 which works.

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EDIT: I have up on the current version of 1.5 that I had and reverted to 1.4.1 (the dependencies are broken so it was a bit of a job). No more lockups. The problem is definitely something in wine.

Android is a good question. Is it just another desktop on top of Linux? Which kernel?

Well, it could be the best to get back to 1.4.

Android, the OS for movil devices like tablets and smartphones. Only I know is it uses a Linux Kernel 2.6 (3.0 from the version 4).

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Some news from the AMD graphics front. AMD will no longer support Linux kernels after the current version on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is why I can't get fglrx to load on 12.10.

The public domain open source 3D driver for Linux works fine for me in DVI with SC4. So there need be no panic over the loss of the catalyst driver. Laptops will have problems with overheats and shorter battery life with this driver. It beats the dickens out of both the processor and the GPU. If you have a laptop, upgrading to the current kernel (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64) is not recommended.

[Alejandro24 575]

Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" RC was released. Maybe in a few days or weeks there will be a new version of LM.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I take it the base of Nadia is Ubuntu 12.10?

[Alejandro24 575]

I take it the base of Nadia is Ubuntu 12.10?

Yes, that's how Linux Mint works, the base of each version is the current version of Ubuntu. In that case, the base of LM14 is U12.10, as in LM13 is U12.04, and so on in each version.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You would positively hate the new Unity desktop. It has more bugs than the insect house at the zoo.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

!##@###! Just had to purchase a DVD-player from Fluendo (19.99 Euros) for Ubuntu 12.10. Seems they can no longer support all the codecs either. The DVDs played just fine on 12.04.

This app works just fine but it cost me over $26 Cdn. what with collector commissions and exchange.

I guess the world is now supposed to be ready to pay and pay for stuff they used to get for free.

[Alejandro24 575]

Ubuntu has became a too commercial Linux. I think is time to change of distro, don't you think Nonny?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Ubuntu has became a too commercial Linux. I think is time to change of distro, don't you think Nonny?

Not unless Linux Mint improves it bug reporting structure. I can afford a few little things like the Fluendo DVD player, but I don't intend to get caught in a Windows-like licensing grab.

If you really want to be a purist in this, you can always go to debian (blecch!).

I prefer a more professional outfit, and can live with Canonical's eructations for a while longer. For what I want to do with a computer, I can just stop updating any time, and live with what I have.

[Alejandro24 575]

Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" has just been released.

Based in Ubuntu 12.10, It comes with two editions, Cinnamon 1.6 and MATE 1.4, for 32 and 64 bits. The improvements of the system includes many corrections of MATE and the support for Dropbox in Caja. Also Cinnamon 1.6 includes the new features of this desktop, released in september more or less, and with Nemo, the replace of Nautilus. MintStick replaces the imagewriter for booteable USB, also Gedit 3 replaced the old Gedti 2.30. Complete list of new features here.

Well, but I think I'll going to update around more later, I'm too busy now .

[hummer0328 6]

The beta1 for Elementary OS Luna was released last month, so today I finally decided to try it out. All I can say is WOW! Cause it has left me speechless. Most beautiful linux distro ever!

It's a VERY heavily customized Ubuntu 12.04, but even in beta feels much more stable than Ubuntu (especially 12.10). It has a nice lightweight feel, and is blazing fast (unlike 12.10). The devs have done a lot of work, especially with the custom apps. For example take Files (based of Marlin) which blows Nautilus right out of the water as it is both beautiful, functional and super fast. Noise, the music player, is again both fast and beautiful. All the custom apps are. I've noticed better battery life on my laptop too. I can go from login to 10 open apps in just a few seconds on a 3 year old laptop.

The only thing I had a hard time with was getting my wireless printer to work. Otherwise everything else just seems to work. And since it's based off ubuntu you still get access to the software center for installing anything else you need. If this is what they call beta, I can't wait for the final product.

The folks over at Canonical should takie notice, cause this is how an OS should look and feel.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

I partitioned off half of my desktop months ago and I was wondering if there was a way to make it dual boot with Linux but have the partition used for storing the majority of the normal files be viewable/usable by Windows 7 as an external hard drive?

--Ocram

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Linux needs two small partitions. One about 10GB for swap space and one about 20GB for the system and user files. If you use the live CD installer you can allow it to make its partitions along side the windows partitions. It will just take some space from them.

Do a disk cleanup and a defragmentation run before you do this to be on the safe side.

[Ionic-Elm 13]

Not again! Well, yes again. I'm restarting my distro project, for good this time. The reason I stopped is because Arch kept changing things, but seems to have slowed down, so I can work without changing things again. The aim of my Linux OS is to be like your typical "easy-use" Linux, such as Ubuntu, but no clutter that upsets the Linux community.

Here's the URL:

http://simplewarelinux.org/index.php

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Interesting, and good luck with it. Got a kernel update today, so I am now on GNU/Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64. Have to retest some stuff when I get off the net.

[Ionic-Elm 13]

Thanks. I've got 3 possible mirrors waiting to call me or e-mail me back. No response from any of them so far. I'm putting that out of the way so I have multiple places to host the beta.

I have these locations lined out so far:

• Kansas City. MO (main mirror)
  
• Hebron, IN (NetNITCO, pending)
  
• Dallas, TX (Evolucix/Colo4Dallas, pending)
  
• Germany (ProviderService, pending)
  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

If you are looking for additional mirrors you might try the Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. It would give you a Canadian mirror.

[Ionic-Elm 13]

I'll try them.

NetNITCO said to e-mail my requirements after January 3rd since they are re-evaluating their mirror program due to space constraints. Evolucix gave me a sponsored VPS to host the site on, and ProviderService has not e-mailed back. However, a company called SolidShellSecurity donated 2 mirrors in Dallas and NYC.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

wine 1.5.20 was thoroughly broken yesterday. Today, a new "version" of 1.5.20 came in from the distro, and all is now well with SC4D.

I gather from posts on the Ubuntu forums that things were bad all over. Those guys are getting sloppier and sloppier. Here's hoping this little adventure has snapped a few heads around.

[Alejandro24 575]

Just for revive this thread, I've founded an article of about the transition of an user of GNU/Linux to Windows, in a humoristic state.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The really funny part of it is the number of years that I put up with all that nonsense, even though I was fully aware of UNIX. Never, never, ever, again. I was actually thinking of heresy because I was thinking about trying out Windows 8, but I see now it would have to be on its own box and couldn't use any of my disks because they are not formatted for MFT.

It is clear that the Windows community is bereft, like a cult. It is used to being abused by Microsoft, and bows towards Washington state (Redmond). The next thing we'll see will be Windows prayer rugs.