That's quite impressive, especially considering that Ubuntu is not even 10 years old yet.

This post has been edited by G-17: Apr 5 2011, 11:17 PM

Gnome 3 is officially released

Tried it but here is wad i think :

Pros : Love the switching workspaces and managing windows

Cons : Fonts are ugly and too big

Prefer Unity though

yerpp, me ordered the CDs, download the ISOs.... from a version into the another for years and not even once managed to be installed and run. haha

Since so many users are using ubuntu, from their reviews and perspective I don't find too difficult to understand about ubuntu and how it works, the basics at least

Well, let me be honest here. I don't like to use things that too many people use, like Ubuntu and Firefox for example, and they don't even attract me to use them. Exclusivity, ftw.

my pow is a bit wierd:

somehow i sense 'the dude' would take over the role of the leader tha good in selling products (whose cult was responsible for hitting newton on his head), went up to stage and speak the same odd stuff (but in a less charismatic may...) and went something like... 'i introduce you: the *b*n-phone™'

i prefer the original, or at least the dude from the movie 'ahoy' of the silicon valley to portray 'em...

btw, i bet you are not one of those 'devil worshipers', or '*rse-*n*l supporters' when comes to english premier league? oh yeah, you'll never walk alo-

*b!tch slapped by mods for posting non related stuff*

Yeah, I'm don't support them, I'd rather go with the low-ranked team, because at least they tried their best.

*kicked in the ass by mods for being off-topic*

Need some help here, I installed LMDE on my external HDD. Now the HDD boots from my laptop just fine, but I need a method of booting it on another PC especially when the PC does not allow you to change the boot order. Or, more like, the BIOS seems to ignore my HDD and just skips straight away to Windows (boo!). I need to override that currently, though.

The GRUB bootloader is installed on the external's MBR, though.

... Just ignore the fact that I need to make it a boot-anywhere HDD installation without me having to force the PC's BIOS to boot from it especially when no changes in the boot order which probably violates a rule of "You must use the computer as-is, no booting from your own HDD or something" if there exists hohohohoho.

^I don't think there's a way to get it to boot from the external drive unless you specify USB booting in your BIOS..... either that or I didn't quite understand your question (sorry, it's been a tiring day for me)

Well nevermind then, I... somehow got through it.

... Since I'm on LMDE...

... well, I'm already on it. I mean, turning on the "unstable" repos and... you know what's next.

(Yeah I'm playing "Break your Debian" now).

Just playing around with it. If it goes kantoi then... well, tough luck. Which is why I got it on my external and not on the main laptop

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 12 2011, 09:33 PM

^I'm curious on how you got the ext.HDD to boot (without specifying in BIOS/EFI)

Also, you might want to read up on Apt pinning if you're thinking of mixing Testing/Unstable sources. That way you (in theory) keep your system a tad more well-behaved.

I can give you a run-down on pinning if you want, though reading Debian's wiki will be infinitely more informative.

The update finished safely, but then I'm now trying to tackle the problem of GRUB not detecting my kernel images. It's the file not found error

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Added on April 13, 2011, 12:45 pmWell, to cut the story short: I eff'd up. Too many missing depends that not even the Sid repos can help me out from, it's the "No installation candidate" hell D:

'Tis okay though, at least I learned another lesson - no wait, that's the reason I set up LMDE in the HDD

But man for a second I sure was thinking "Wow KDE is faster than GNOME o_o" before I did the "break your debian" thing.

Actually I do reckon even with its bloatedness KDE is faster than GNOME, at least my experience with LMDE and Ubuntu tells me so.

Probably because the GNOME in LMDE is a bit modified (Mint menu takes a while to load so yeah), while the KDE I have is pretty much the vanilla kdebase-workspace packages minus Konqueror (because I removed it right after it got installed).

... Now I'm tempted to start over and do things that way (keep default GNOME, but install as minimum of KDE as I can).

Overall it has been a ride

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 13 2011, 12:51 PM

LOL! I am so noob. How you guys the KDE 4.6 users manage to change the theme? searching hi and low but couldn’t find any of it

try looking around in KDE-Look.org

well I just happened to have some leftover themes from my KDE 4.5, so it all got carried over to KDE 4.6

also in System Settings you can pick "Get New..." ranging from system colors, window decs, plasma themes, icons, plus a ton of others I lost count already KDE will then load the database from KDE-Look.org and you can install straight from there.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 15 2011, 10:14 AM

I see, off-line preinstall themes no more, no wonder. Will try it at home. Thanks.

You can download it elsewhere and install it on your own, though. Just make sure you know what folder to install to. Like for Plasma themes it's usually in the ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme folder.

How to install plasma is a bit tricky.... from where I am going to install and run it?

why i still need to put the command "nouveau.modeset=0" at the back line of kernel?

Actually, to boot into ext drive without messing with the BIOS/EFI, you'll need to modify the local drive's MBR to point back to the external drive. Its the only way to do it.

@ Farkinid, G-17: It's just that the PC has been set to boot from USB devices (which includes my HDD), probably the admin forgot to reset it to ALWAYS boot from main HDD. Then again, that's one of the few PCs I can use my HDD, but then after I broke LMDE I accidentally nuked my HDD before I backed up anything on it. But there's so many "antique" things in there I don't think I can be bothered to remember and retrieve all of them...

Hmm.. when you say nuke, what kind of nuke do you mean? I use testdisk to mine formatted drives all the time.