Comments on: My Issues With Ubuntu 8.10 After Four Months http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months Ubuntuness is next to Godliness Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:54:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brett Legree http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1622 Brett Legree Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:22:56 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1622 It never hurts to be able to know how to do things in an advanced way, so I kept that post of yours for just such a day.<br><br>My first *nix file server (back in '03) ran FreeBSD, CLI only and headless - it was a great learning experience and not that hard at all (the FreeBSD manual is amazing). Eventually the hardware failed but the machine was solid 24/7 until then.<br><br>Sometimes I'll try out the GUI stuff too just to see if it works, so this time I thought "hey, why not?" and it worked.<br><br>Good old Caps Lock - I was going to buy one of those Happy Hacking Keyboards that put Ctrl where Caps Lock is some time ago, and never did - the remap is just as good!<br><br>(and that was pretty darned funny... !) It never hurts to be able to know how to do things in an advanced way, so I kept that post of yours for just such a day.

My first *nix file server (back in '03) ran FreeBSD, CLI only and headless – it was a great learning experience and not that hard at all (the FreeBSD manual is amazing). Eventually the hardware failed but the machine was solid 24/7 until then.

Sometimes I'll try out the GUI stuff too just to see if it works, so this time I thought “hey, why not?” and it worked.

Good old Caps Lock – I was going to buy one of those Happy Hacking Keyboards that put Ctrl where Caps Lock is some time ago, and never did – the remap is just as good!

(and that was pretty darned funny… !)

]]> By: randyjensen http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1621 randyjensen Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:41:15 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1621 I think for most people, Disk Manager is probably perfect. I guess I do some things that may be considered a little more advanced/not-normal, but as people become more advanced they're going to be expecting those things of their OS.<br><br>That is awesome that you've remapped Caps Lock. Now that you mention it, I can't think of the last time I used it???<br><br>THANKS FOR THE COMMENT ....sorry, had to do it :) I think for most people, Disk Manager is probably perfect. I guess I do some things that may be considered a little more advanced/not-normal, but as people become more advanced they're going to be expecting those things of their OS.

That is awesome that you've remapped Caps Lock. Now that you mention it, I can't think of the last time I used it???

THANKS FOR THE COMMENT ….sorry, had to do it :)

]]> By: Brett Legree http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1619 Brett Legree Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:22:06 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1619 Incidentally... I switched one of the machines because it was running XP and the "Active Desktop" just started randomly crashing - no reason...<br><br>(Oh, and the Caps Lock key thing - I did that on Windows too, but it needed a third-party app that made a registry change, and a reboot - a bloody reboot! - to remap a key...) Incidentally… I switched one of the machines because it was running XP and the “Active Desktop” just started randomly crashing – no reason…

(Oh, and the Caps Lock key thing – I did that on Windows too, but it needed a third-party app that made a registry change, and a reboot – a bloody reboot! – to remap a key…)

]]> By: Brett Legree http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1617 Brett Legree Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:19:20 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1617 I've had Firefox crash a couple of times but it doesn't seem to be too often, and with the session restore it doesn't bug me really.<br><br>I use Disk Manager for all disk management stuff and that seems to work pretty well for me (I had read your excellent post on mounting NTFS drives but I felt lazy that night and tried Disk Manager instead - no problems so far!)<br><br>I hate Caps Lock so I used the Keyboard Preferences to make it an additional Ctrl key :)<br><br>-Brett I've had Firefox crash a couple of times but it doesn't seem to be too often, and with the session restore it doesn't bug me really.

I use Disk Manager for all disk management stuff and that seems to work pretty well for me (I had read your excellent post on mounting NTFS drives but I felt lazy that night and tried Disk Manager instead – no problems so far!)

I hate Caps Lock so I used the Keyboard Preferences to make it an additional Ctrl key :)

-Brett

]]> By: randyjensen http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1606 randyjensen Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:05:36 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1606 While I agree that the Ubuntu community stands above the general Linux community, they're one in the same to the average user. They're aren't necessarily going to end up on the official Ubuntu forum everytime they search for something.<br><br>As for Firefox, I use it for the addons. You take them away from me, and there's no reason for me not to switch to Chrome or even that joke of a browser Safari. I run just as many addons on all my Windows machines and Firefox hasn't crashed since the first days of 3.0.<br><br>I've tried podcast support with many different apps and nothing works as well as iTunes. This doesn't bother me all that much since I'm really just waiting for Songbird 2.0 which I think is going to kill iTunes just as Firefox is killing IE.<br><br>I don't know if I'll be able to limit my 'Good' list to only 12. I'm really happy with Ubuntu and want to make clear that this isn't a post just to trash it. I hope it's taken for what it is, me wanting to see Ubuntu become the OS for everyone. While I agree that the Ubuntu community stands above the general Linux community, they're one in the same to the average user. They're aren't necessarily going to end up on the official Ubuntu forum everytime they search for something.

As for Firefox, I use it for the addons. You take them away from me, and there's no reason for me not to switch to Chrome or even that joke of a browser Safari. I run just as many addons on all my Windows machines and Firefox hasn't crashed since the first days of 3.0.

I've tried podcast support with many different apps and nothing works as well as iTunes. This doesn't bother me all that much since I'm really just waiting for Songbird 2.0 which I think is going to kill iTunes just as Firefox is killing IE.

I don't know if I'll be able to limit my 'Good' list to only 12. I'm really happy with Ubuntu and want to make clear that this isn't a post just to trash it. I hope it's taken for what it is, me wanting to see Ubuntu become the OS for everyone.

]]> By: Pablonius Monk http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/issues-ubuntu-810-months/comment-page-1#comment-1605 Pablonius Monk Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:19:16 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1605 Good observations, Randy. I'm having the same problem you mentioned with Pulse Audio. Your comment about the Linux Community cannot be said about the Ubuntu Linux community. If you spend any significant time on the Ubuntu forums, you can really appreciate the difference in tone. As for Firefox, I've found it pretty stable in 8.10. You might try uninstalling a few add-ons in order to streamline your Firefox performance. I'll take your point about the one-good-browser available in Linux. Google has stated that Chrome for Linux & Mac will be available in a few weeks. That will instantly be a solid browser in the Linux stable along with Firefox. <br><br>As for your issues with podcasts in Songbird, have you tried Rhythmbox's podcasting support? I know that support for iPods is weak in Rhythmbox. Thanks for the great post.<br><br>I encourage you to post 12 positive observations about your 4 months with Ubuntu. I'm curious to hear about the good stuff too. Good observations, Randy. I'm having the same problem you mentioned with Pulse Audio. Your comment about the Linux Community cannot be said about the Ubuntu Linux community. If you spend any significant time on the Ubuntu forums, you can really appreciate the difference in tone. As for Firefox, I've found it pretty stable in 8.10. You might try uninstalling a few add-ons in order to streamline your Firefox performance. I'll take your point about the one-good-browser available in Linux. Google has stated that Chrome for Linux & Mac will be available in a few weeks. That will instantly be a solid browser in the Linux stable along with Firefox.

As for your issues with podcasts in Songbird, have you tried Rhythmbox's podcasting support? I know that support for iPods is weak in Rhythmbox. Thanks for the great post.

I encourage you to post 12 positive observations about your 4 months with Ubuntu. I'm curious to hear about the good stuff too.

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