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My compiz works great until I start OpenOffice. Their menus don't work and I once again have no titlebar... all the other programs are fine, however.
I had that problem - found a solution in the ubuntuforums. Can't remember off the top of my head, but it involved something to do with legacy mode, I think.
The_Techie
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I also had that problem some time ago, the legacy mode thing rings a bell (can't remember exactly)
Definitely check the Ubuntuforums
The_Unbeliever
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OpenSuSE 10.3 and KDE here.
Compiz-fusion won't work on my video card
At least I'm having a stable environment
Can't wait for OpenSuSE 11 to be released
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Compiz-fusion won't work on my video card
At least I'm having a stable environment
Can't wait for OpenSuSE 11 to be released
Firewall - Smoothwall
Server - SME v7.3
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Tux
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Can't wait for OpenSuSE 11 to be released
It's not very stable at the moment but it looks good
Busy setting up Suse10.3 on my personal pc. Had Ubuntu Edgy Etter on it
I had the same problem when using PuppyLinux3.01 with Compiz. The system would suddenly become unstable as soon as OO was launched.
It's not the issue with Ubuntu, though.
The_Unbeliever
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Managed to get compiz to work on my lappy.
Very pretty, but just enough slow to be an irritant, so I uninstalled it.
Very pretty, but just enough slow to be an irritant, so I uninstalled it.
Managed to get compiz to work on my lappy.
Very pretty, but just enough slow to be an irritant, so I uninstalled it.
Yeah I installed compiz on my laptop a while back, but also found it to get annoying. Too slow and cumbersome to access via a touchpad.
Slow? What are your laptop specs?
Mine is fast and agile on old ATI Radeon 9000 with AthlonXP-M @2Ghz & 1Gb RAM laptop.
Mine are not that good
I use Compiz on my desktop, I just find that on my laptop I use it mostly for work, so pretty is pretty useless.
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Real™ Debian™
Testing (Lenny) 32bit on my work machine - I installed it when I started this job in January last year, have only restarted when I had to move to another desk (the way we're expanding, this happens every three months or so). I do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade every monday morning. Absolutely trouble free so far.
Testing (Lenny) 32bit on my work machine - I installed it when I started this job in January last year, have only restarted when I had to move to another desk (the way we're expanding, this happens every three months or so). I do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade every monday morning. Absolutely trouble free so far.
Ubuntu 8.04 - really good, the forums are super helpful
If you have ubuntu put your hardware here : www.ubuntuhcl.com and brainstorm.ubuntu.com is alos worth taking a look at!
If you have ubuntu put your hardware here : www.ubuntuhcl.com and brainstorm.ubuntu.com is alos worth taking a look at!
koffiejunkie
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Real™ Debian™
Testing (Lenny) 32bit on my work machine - I installed it when I started this job in January last year, have only restarted when I had to move to another desk (the way we're expanding, this happens every three months or so). I do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade every monday morning. Absolutely trouble free so far.
I guess I should update this. I have several virtual machines under VMWare Server, all with RHEL4 or RHEL5 in different states of destruction to test things out before attempting it on clients' servers. Needless to say, with an 80GB disc, I was running out of space, and it was also a performance killer. At the same time, I've also been doing more database work , and frequently run out of memory testing things.
So I planed a major upgrade:
1. Add 2GB memory.
2. Move to 64bit Debian Lenny.
3. Throw out the 80GB, put in three 160GB discs, RAID5 them and put LVM on top, so I'll be able to systematically replace them and grow my available space as needed, without any disruption.
One thing I forgot, is that long ago, when I was still running Etch (before it went stable), there was an update to X.org which broke FBmerge specifically on cards using the radeon.o driver. Since I use two screens at work, this is vital. So I rolled back the X.org packages and pinned them. This survived a dist-upgrade - I love apt!
Anyway, reinstalling gave me the newest version of X, which brought with it new problems. For one thing, they added this randr business, which became the default way of doing things. This is fine, except that randr's support for my 5 year old Radeon 7000 is broken - so badly broken I don't even have 2D acceleration! But in their infinite wisdom, the X developers REMOVED FBMerge. Which means my card became useless. So now I have an nVidia 8600 GTS (I think?) with the nVidia driver.
One other snag I ran into is that 64bit implementations of Flash really suck. nsplugin turned out to be the best, but I would still get websites that would push my CPU usage (2GHz Athlon64) to 100% - all for a simple banner. Thankfully, Adobe's 64bit plug-in has become available as a beta release. This has made a tremendous difference.
So all is good now. Real™ Debian™ still rulez
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Mandriva 2008.1. Unix tech recommended it after he got tired of me moaning about Vista (came std on new laptop). Managed to get it all working with a tweak here or there except internal 3G card, had to plug the old one back in.
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Running LINPUS LITE (can never take that name seriously) on my Acer Aspire One, and Ubuntu8.10 at work and home
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Have you tried Ubuntu on it yet? Apart from a few networking issues it was pretty nice but I had to go back.