Ubuntu 7.04 is now available.

[dfwjacker]

Which is what I said.

Microsoft have NOT "made it deliberately difficult to dual-boot Vista with any other operating system" - where is your proof for this allegation?

Microsoft have made improvements to the boot loader. I could make the same allegation against Ubuntu - why didn't they make 7.04 easier to install in a dual boot with Vista when Vista was out months ahead of it? This Vista bashing is getting very tiresome and despite my attempts to be friendly and conciliatory to you T-Rexx you persist in making ridiculous claims.

Give me a fucking break... Everything Microsoft does is deliberate and designed to increase and maintain its monopoly.

"Improvements" to the boot loader are an excuse for more of their typical anti-competitive/anti-consumer behavior which Microsoft has the market cornered on.

Furthermore, unlike Microsoft, ubuntu doesn't have a monopoly on PCs and is not FORCED upon everyone that purchases a new PC. Like it or not, a company in Microsoft's position does have legal restrictions that others don't. The saying "you can't have your cake and eat it" comes to mind. Only in Microsoft's case they have the cake, eat the cake, and then spit it in everyone else's face.

Unfortunately, years of the monopoly friendly Bush administration and DOJ has allowed Microsoft to run amok with their anti-competitive/anti-consumer abuses with no fear of prosecution. I for one am look forward to a Democratic administration & DOJ that will deal harshly with Microsoft's continuing abuses so we can finally have some competition and innovation in this industry. Microsoft has been stifling innovation for years and years, we can only dream of the the innovative software and computer systems we would be using by now if they didn't have a stranglehold on our computers.

 

[Apollo]

Whats with the Microsoft bitching. Yes they have a monopoly. It's what happens when your the one that revolutionizes the computer field. If it had been Mac instead, people would be bitching how they have a monopoly. Get over it. It isn't gonna change. No one is forced to use Microsoft, which is obvious with Linux. If you dont want Windows, then download Linux. Seriously.

Microsoft has the BEST word processor. I don't care what you say or throw out there to argue my statement. I have tried other word processors(abiword, openoffice.org) none of them have grammar corrector. They have the best spell check out there, and it is just a fucking awesome program. Thats why I am pissed my computer didn't come with it. I have to deal with other lesser programs.

Linux is still awsome btw.

PS: I would also like to point out Vista is a very good program. It is very sound and strong. I get shit done, and it doesn't break down on me. I can see why those people who downloaded the OS would hate it, but I bought it with it straight on the computer (which I think is the best thing to do) and it is perfect (ok not perfect. OS X is as perfect as it gets) so get over yourselfs. Stop trying to pick apart a OS that doesnt have much to pick at. It isnt XP.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

/\ you guys and your OS war.

anywho...t, my hard drives are not mounted. here are the screen shots.

 

[Marbas]

I've been playing around with the Ubuntu 7.04 live CD for the past few days.

Even though it's been a fairly steep learning curve for me (I know next to nothing about computers, and XP is the only OS I've ever used) I'm loving it so far.

I have a feeling that (after a bit more research, and playing around) I will probably install it alongside Windows.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

/\ i think you should make a second sigy that has says the same thing but has a bunch of OS logos. because noelie, you are now a linux user too!

 

[Marbas]

Problems: Ubuntu can see the other partitions on my internal drive, and my usb flash drive, but it can't see any of my other external usb drives. Kubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't seem to see anything at all, except for my flash drive.

I got as far as installing Ubuntu, but couldn't seem to get access to any of my files, which are virtually all stored on my external drives. I didn't like the way it automatically set itself as the default boot-up OS, so I've unistalled it for now.

I will still be playing around with the live cd versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu, but any help or advice as to why none of my external drives are accessible would be much appreciated.

 

[Marbas]

re: My post above: browsing the web, I've discovered that this inability to access usb external drives seems to be a common problem.

Ubuntu 7.04 includes a "Windows migration tool", which will copy your browser bookmarks, e-mail contacts, wallpaper, etc. from your Windows installation into the Linux equivalents.

That part of the installation didn't work for me; I receieved a message that there was nothing to import.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

/\ Hoody, this sounds related to the problems i'm having. kubuntu does't see any of my hard drives (including my two external USB drives). the only thing it does see is my 4 gig USB flash drive. T, I think will be getting back to me to explain how to fix it though.

 

[Marbas]

I'm not giving up just yet though; I'm typing this on Firefox running in Ubuntu from the live cd. I think I will re-install it (or Kubuntu) tomorrow, and see if I can solve the problem; there is a lot of help and advice on the web about mounting hard-drives, but a lot of it seems way over my head. Still, it's about time I put a bit of effort into learning something new.

 

[Apollo]

...well i still havent technically installed ubuntu on my computer. i decided not to cause it seemed like too much trouble to me, but i really do want ubuntu so i was wondering...

if someone could simply show me how to partition my harddrive with Vista than i can could do the rest, i am almost certain. ubuntu install recognizes my main harddrive and mass storage device but thats it. so i know i dont have any partitions. thank you in advanced. someone showed how to create a partition or something or other a few posts up, but how do i create one in the Vista OS.

 

[Apollo]

i didnt exactly know what he was doing in ubuntu so i didnt bother trying to partition in there. but i will try that now. i am going to assume this is what you wanted.

 

[dfwjacker]

Someone has compiled a list of 10 great applications, some up and coming, that you may or may not know about and can easily install on Ubuntu 7.04

Follow link for installation instructions and screenshots.

The list of applications from the link:

Soundconverter - Soundconverter is a small application that allow you to convert audio files in many audio types. You can select a lot of options or convert entire folders in just few clicks.

Brasero - Probably one of the best CD/DVD burning application for GNOME.
Full integration with Totem and Beagle.

Jokosher - This is a Garageband-like application with a good list of features (it’s still too young for some users) but with some problems caused principally by the non-existent JACK usage (so there are many alerts).

Sbackup - Absolutely the best solution for Desktop/Power users to backup their data.
Sbackup, a software born during one of the last Google Summer Of Code, allow the user to set all the preferences for a complete or incremental backup.

Here is a quite-complete features list:

* Backup any subset of files and directories
* Exclude files and directories by regex expressions
* Exclude files by type (extension)
* Exclude files by maximum file size
* Backup to local filesystem
* Backup to any Gnome-VFS supported remote filesystem (including sftp and ftp)
* Full and incremental backups
* Scheduling backups via cron
* Gnome GUI for configuration
* Gnome GUI for restore
* Command-line restore tool that also provides a Python API for restoring a file or directory
* Backing up package list in Debian derived distributions
* On restore, existing files are not overwritten, but are renamed to a safe name

Thoggen - This application let you rip DVD into OGG video files.
I think that it’s one of the best software because of its clear and functional interface, understandable from new users too. And, off course, it spreads open formats.

PiTiVi - Ok, ok, this video editing app is still under hard developement but.. I like it!
If someone will help the main developer, probably this will be able to became one of the most requested software by desktop users.
It has a well designed interface, and some intresting ideas.

Disk-Manager - This software automatically detect new Hard drives and/or partitions and allow you to configure their usage in the best way.
It writes changes to /etc/fstab and preserve a sort of “cache” or “history” for every configuration you tried.
It uses Devices IDs instead of UNIX like method (ie. /dev/hda1, /dev/hdc3 etc..).

Tracker - Probably the best solution to index and search your data.
It has a database that can be used trough some APIs to integrate a full and well organized application. For example. Do you need images? Or music? just one click
Authors are currently trying to spread this software inside the GNOME community because it’s faster than beagle (written in MONO) and has a lot of fantastic features (just imagine rhytmbox or f-spot that doesn’t need to watch any directory, leaving all the work to only one app: Tracker).

Affinity - Affinity is one of the much sexy interfaces to programs like tracker and beagle. It could be integrated in the panels like an applet or launched as a normal program in the notification area. Currently in a high level of development, I’m waiting for its future release (0.2) that probably will be one of the best interfaces you’ve ever seen on your Linux installation.

Gnome-compiz-manager - There are almost two ways to configure compiz (desktop effects) on Feisty by default: using the simple interface of the Desktop Effects applet situated in the menu System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects, or trough the bad (but full of power and highly configurable) interface of gconf (launch gconf-editor with the keyboard shortcut Alt+F2).
Another way is to install this beautiful software that will allow you to configure more option of your compiz installation (including hot-corners, keyboard shortcuts and many more things).

 

[Marbas]

I've just spent a few hours trying to re-install Ubuntu, without success.

When I first installed it, a few days ago, I just followed the instructions on the screen; the installer created a new 55G partition on my 200G disc, and installed Ubuntu onto the new partition. My Windows partition remained untouched, resulting in this:

One hard drive divided into three partions:
30G Windows
145G Data
55G Ubuntu

Now that I am trying to re-install it I had assumed that I would be able to simply install Ubuntu onto the 55G partition that it created last time, but I keep getting the error message that there is not enough space.

It's all very confusing: much as I would love to give Ubuntu a fair trial I think I will have to wait until the next release before trying to install it again.


Additional point: does anyone know if it is possible to re-combine the 55G partition and the 145G partition to get back to one 200G partition, or are these chages irreversible?

 

[Marbas]

^
Thanks, noelie, I saw that tool on Ubuntu; if I can manage to use it to re-combine the partitions maybe I will be able to start all over again and do a clean install of Ubuntu. I really would like to able to give it a fair trial before I dismiss it.

 

[Marbas]

Yippee! I have it working now!

After arsing about with Gnome Partition Editor for a while I managed to re-install it to the unused bit of my hard drive, then, after downloading Disk Manager, I am now able to access my USB external drives in Ubuntu. It took me a while though; I had to open them by right-clicking on the entry from within Disk Manger and then bookmarking them. I'm sure there must be a much easier way of doing all this stuff, but at least I got there in the end.

 

[Apollo]

Ok i am trying to install Ubuntu. I was on the live CD posting this but it got unbearably slow so here i am on Vista doing it. This is GParted:

the 70.94 is the one Noelie said I should use for ubuntu and i should resize it to 1/3. i havent done this yet but i want to assume that this will create two new partitions? and then i should make them of equal size to the new root. and the others to blah blah

This is the manual section of partition manager:

I think that the 3200MB is the 70.94 but then again I was thinking the 4700 should be it. now i dont think i should change that to the root and the others to other things because those things are simply my entire 160GB harddrive.

here is the prepare disk space section:

i dont know if this helps at all?

this is the install section, i dont know if this will help either

ummm i am assuming i should simply resize the 70.94GB space and then go to partition manager in the install and set the different sections as root and swap and ext3. i could be completely wrong thats why i am asking you guys.

 

[Apollo]

ok so i SHOULD resize the 70.94 to 1/3 and that will do create two other partitions and stuff...sigh i'll just experiment and see what happens.

 

[Apollo]

ok i did that and this is what it is now. i changed one of the allocated to linux-swap and i tried to change the other unallocated to sp3 but it says i cant have 4 partitions are primary so i am just going to leave as is. will this be good enough?

 

[Apollo]

or is this better?

 

[Apollo]

i give up. i am trying to partition the 70.94 and then i get a error message saying it cant happen. then it goes on to mount all of the partitions for some reason(i dont even know what it means when it is mounted) fuck it. i have no BIG use for ubuntu.