[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32503977]Linux has never been too great on laptops to begin with but the past few kernel updates really fucked the battery life[/QUOTE]
what about BSD? freebsd and that sort of shit..
i'm considering switching to debian with freebsd core..
battery is short at my lubuntu 11.04 too..
I wouldn't even try it, honestly
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32562293]I wouldn't even try it, honestly[/QUOTE]
Yeah BSD isn't really meant to be run on laptops. The developers care about servers. They're not like Linux where their kernel is run on phones or toasters.
I've seen BSD on a toaster a few times
[editline]30th September 2011[/editline]
seriously, back in the early 90s there was a BBS called toasterm that (iirc) ran on a BSD variant, and in 2005 someone made a fully functional toaster that ran NetBSD
I've been using Mint for a few days and I love it! If I ever get a netbook I am installing it.
so who is ruining the linux kernel battery usage..?
"The new World Order" ?
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;32467999]"The New World Order" is behind this...
when they are going to fix it?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;32569601]so who is ruining the linux kernel battery usage..?
"The new World Order" ?[/QUOTE]
The battery usage is the name. The kernel just fixed a flaw that turned on battery saving which would crash some laptops.
Also, if the new world order existed, I doubt it's target would be Linux netbooks.
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;32569601]so who is ruining the linux kernel battery usage..?
"The new World Order" ?[/QUOTE]
As far as I understand, Linux has always had problems with power management. Which kinda makes sense because Microsoft did what they could to sabotage ACPI.
[url=http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf]Bill Gates on ACPI[/url]: "One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. [...] [b]Maybe we couid define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open[/b]."
[url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7279]Torvalds on ACPI[/url]: "Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce."
The funny part is that the Torvalds quote was from 2003, and the Microsoft memorandum wasn't leaked until, I think, 2007 or so. He got troll'd.
Got Arch working on VMWare:
[img]http://gyazo.com/beec9d00307865062ef84b48b56ed77a.png[/img]
For some reason last night Debian required fglrx to use a package that is missing, so now accelerated graphics does not work, anyone got any insight into why fglrx can't be installed and how to fix the issue.
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;32575560]Got Arch working on VMWare:
[img]http://gyazo.com/beec9d00307865062ef84b48b56ed77a.png[/img][/QUOTE]
xfce ftw, gotta love that tips and tricks window
[QUOTE=Cookieeater;32575560]Got Arch working on VMWare:
[img]http://gyazo.com/beec9d00307865062ef84b48b56ed77a.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I'm actually kind of unhappy with XFCE at the moment. It's a great little desktop environment, and has been my DE of choice in the past, but the mouse config dialog doesn't provide any way for me to disable mouse acceleration. That's an absolutely massive, crippling oversight in my opinion. It seems to me like mouse input is a piece of fundamental, core functionality and should be way high on their priority list. Sure, I can use xset every time I log in, but the point is I shouldn't have to.
[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;32571617]As far as I understand, Linux has always had problems with power management. Which kinda makes sense because Microsoft did what they could to sabotage ACPI.
[url=http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf]Bill Gates on ACPI[/url]: "One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the "ACPI" extensions somehow Windows specific. It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work. [...] [b]Maybe we couid define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not the others even if they are open[/b]."
[url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7279]Torvalds on ACPI[/url]: "Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce."
The funny part is that the Torvalds quote was from 2003, and the Microsoft memorandum wasn't leaked until, I think, 2007 or so. He got troll'd.[/QUOTE]
What, any ideas of Microsoft being the same company as it was 10 years ago is preposterous!
[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;32576088]I'm actually kind of unhappy with XFCE at the moment. It's a great little desktop environment, and has been my DE of choice in the past, but the mouse config dialog doesn't provide any way for me to disable mouse acceleration. That's an absolutely massive, crippling oversight in my opinion. It seems to me like mouse input is a piece of fundamental, core functionality and should be way high on their priority list. Sure, I can use xset every time I log in, but the point is I shouldn't have to.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you should crack open the dialog source and add it in?
This is just great, a update to xorg broke my graphics driver and now I am waiting on another close source release by AMD.
[QUOTE=Jookia;32577288]What, any ideas of Microsoft being the same company as it was 10 years ago is preposterous![/QUOTE]
Maybe I'm a little pessimistic, but I don't believe they can change that radically.
Even if they did, much of the damage is already done.
[QUOTE=Jookia;32577288]Maybe you should crack open the dialog source and add it in?[/QUOTE]
I was actually about 20 minutes into digging through 'xfsettingsd/pointers.c' before I realized that just setting accel to 1.0 seemed to do the trick. Now I feel like a bit of an idiot.
I know I tried it before and it just felt 'wrong' for some reason, I'm not sure what the change was.
my laptop doesn't have a scroll lock key, any way I can map it to Fn+caps lock or something?
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32578181]my laptop doesn't have a scroll lock key, any way I can map it to Fn+caps lock or something?[/QUOTE]
What are you on? Cause I know for shit like Ubuntu there's a Keyboard Shortcuts menu. It might be in Debian
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32579197]What are you on? Cause I know for shit like Ubuntu there's a Keyboard Shortcuts menu. It might be in Debian[/QUOTE]I use Debian, but I've got the minimal installation
Hello there! I just installed Ubuntu and i have a couple of small questions.
1. How do you guys do the fancy print out of the kernel and dist along with misc info?
2.Is there anyway i can make things in the Software center download more than one at a time?
3. What would you guys recommend as a IDE for java?
4. I'm currently dual booting with windows 7, But when the screen pops up to select witch one i want, I cant move the selection. I'm thinking this is probably due to my wireless keyboard. Any ideas?
Any help is much appreciated, I'm here to learn :)
[QUOTE=Phreebird;32579887]Hello there! I just installed Ubuntu and i have a couple of small questions.
1. How do you guys do the fancy print out of the kernel and dist along with misc info?
2.Is there anyway i can make things in the Software center download more than one at a time?
3. What would you guys recommend as a IDE for java?
4. I'm currently dual booting with windows 7, But when the screen pops up to select witch one i want, I cant move the selection. I'm thinking this is probably due to my wireless keyboard. Any ideas?
Any help is much appreciated, I'm here to learn :)[/QUOTE]
1. Go google Archey, that's what you are looking for.
2. Uh, not that I know of, I kinda avoid using it for some reason.
3. Either Eclipse or NetBeans.
4. That might be the problem, but I am not very sure.
[QUOTE=Phreebird;32579887]
4. I'm currently dual booting with windows 7, But when the screen pops up to select witch one i want, I cant move the selection. I'm thinking this is probably due to my wireless keyboard. Any ideas?
[/QUOTE]
On some PCs you have to enable "USB Keyboards" in the BIOS.
2. Use synaptic instead? It's a more technical interface to the same package management system.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32580287]On some PCs you have to enable "USB Keyboards" in the BIOS.[/QUOTE]
I will look into that after this finishes...
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ohcomethefuckon.png[/IMG]
Gonna be here awhile :(
[editline]2nd October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32580287]On some PCs you have to enable "USB Keyboards" in the BIOS.[/QUOTE]
That seems to have fixed it, Thanks!
[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;32580298]2. Use synaptic instead? It's a more technical interface to the same package management system. [/QUOTE]
Much better, Thank you!
[editline]2nd October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=DuCT;32580068]1. Go google Archey, that's what you are looking for.
2. Uh, not that I know of, I kinda avoid using it for some reason.
3. Either Eclipse or NetBeans.
4. That might be the problem, but I am not very sure.[/QUOTE]
1: That was exactly what i was looking for!
Thank you!
Does Mint come with the Gtk+ library?
[QUOTE=Octave;32594466]Does Mint come with the Gtk+ library?[/QUOTE]it should, yes
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;32594493]it should, yes[/QUOTE]when I try:
[code]#include <gtk/gtk.h>[/code]
it says no such file/directory.
I thought it was supposed to be installed too, but i guess it's not in the right path? Kind of confused about this.
[QUOTE=Octave;32594658]when I try:
[code]#include <gtk/gtk.h>[/code]
it says no such file/directory.
I thought it was supposed to be installed too, but i guess it's not in the right path? Kind of confused about this.[/QUOTE]
You'll probably need a "devel" package for that. Something along the lines of libgtk-devel.
How do you get Korean and Japanese on your Ubuntu? Is there a console command I can use?
[QUOTE=oldboy;32621504]How do you get Korean and Japanese on your Ubuntu? Is there a console command I can use?[/QUOTE]
Go to system administration and add another language?
I was bored so I decided to install crunchbang
It's awesome so far
First time using linux in a few months
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