koffiejunkie
Executive Member
My remarks about how well Wine works is based on my having to work with Microsoft Office 2007 in Wine, so excuse the bias
It doesn't even work 100% in Windows-
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My remarks about how well Wine works is based on my having to work with Microsoft Office 2007 in Wine, so excuse the bias
It doesn't even work 100% in Windowskoffiejunkie
Executive Member
Ubuntu
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
In about 40 minutes. I think - I never received any confirmation of the time. I seem to remember someone saying it starts at 08:00
Best of luck!
In the meantime I'll be trying to decipher this http://tinyurl.com/56ep4x to see if it's within my limited capabilities.
Again: good luck!
d0b33
Honorary Master
Yep go with ubuntu, just use the repo browser(add/remove) and search for 'picasa' and 'raw' it will auto magically install the apps you select.
web
Executive Member
Mandriva, sorry had to throw that in.
...and the best of luck to you tooBest of luck!
In the meantime I'll be trying to decipher this http://tinyurl.com/56ep4x to see if it's within my limited capabilities.
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
Best of luck!
In the meantime I'll be trying to decipher this http://tinyurl.com/56ep4x to see if it's within my limited capabilities.
So you got the netbook then? Which one?
The Aspire One and so far this has been an exercise in futility.
d0b33
Honorary Master
You trying to install Ubuntu? intrepid?
Take it to the Linux section we'll help you out.
Thanks but I've already spent nearly a day on this and thats about my limit.
Everything seems to work but the wireless networking. Going to fiddle a little tonight and then wipe Ubuntu off and load up windows or something else tomorrow.
Interesting, a colleague of mine bought an Acer netbook preinstalled with Linux (can't remember which flavour) and the thing that impressed him most was the ease of networking.
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
It actually comes with Fedora on. It's got that silly menu interface on top (I haven't figured out how to get rid of it), but under the skin it's a fairly regular fedora. A colleague bought one for their travels (they're gone now) and I helped them a bit to put Skype and a few bits/pieces on.
Getting rid of that was actually pretty straight forward. Maybe I'll reinstall the default OS again (Fedora 8 iirc) and get on with other things. I really liked the way Ubuntu looked on it but it's too much hassle.
d0b33
Honorary Master
Yeah, stick to the default OS if you're having trouble with Ubuntu. Linux is still Linux.