Linux Day 1

[lpetersson]

Linux Day 1:

Last night I installed kUbuntu on Khaine, and it mostly went well.
A couple of snags were hit, but with the right blessings of the Omnissiah and incense to soothe the Machine's spirit all was soon well and I was booting into a new and strange Operating system.

Unlike last time I tried Ubuntu, Nvidia had provided a fairly simply way of enabling Dual-Monitor output. Getting it to save the configuration changes were a different matter as I had to run the program as root and there was no obvious way of doing that.
Coming from Windows I'm used to holding Shift + Right Clicking when I need to do something with elevated credentials.
Never mind though, ridding the galaxy of Xenos, Mutants and Heretics is a journey, not a destination and with the help of digitalangel I managed to overcome this obstacle as well.
Ok, that's an exaggeration, she told me step by step what to do :-D
A couple of reboots later, and Ubuntu is now stretched across two monitors.

A nice thing about Linux is of course the sheer amount of free software available and I was soon on MSN again courtesy of Pidgin.
I found a couple of Solitaire clients which I'll be trying out later ^_^
Firefox has all my usual add ons installed so the most important things have been taken care off.

Now we come to the 'To Do List' for the evening:
1) Install VMWare
2) Find an e-mail client that allows IMAP access to Hotmail
3) Figure out how to mount additional hard drives!!! (I may have solved this one...)
4) Figure out how to 'map'/connect to network shares so they are always there when I log in!!!
5) Find a decent WinAmp replacement
6) Find a good video player (I'm guessing VLC will be the choice here)
7) Go to the gym
8) Make a big tasty burger
9) Eat a big tasty burger
10) Paint either some Tau or a Razorback

Comments

[digitalangel.livejournal.com]

Your formatting is all screwed up. :p

2) Like I said last night, I use Mozilla's Seamonkey suite which is email/browser/IRC/webpage composer/address book in one. Otherwise Google and see what other people suggest as best one?

5) Ditto Google for this. Also you could just do one big query post on ubuntuforums.org. :D

6) VLC is indeed the best choice

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

fixed the formatting :-D

[digitalangel.livejournal.com]

These post of mine may help...

http://digitalangel.livejournal.com/545360.html

And kubuntu tagged may unearth gems.

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Cheers, I'll check that out more thoroughly when I get home...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mauler_/]

Try here for some suggestions on #5? :]

[allezbleu.livejournal.com]

finally!

im not a fan of KDE, but i use plain old ubuntu at work, stretched across 3 monitors. I had to do the X config by hand though :)

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Once I've gotten Ubuntu running properly on this machine, then I'm getting Ubuntu with gnome on my other less powerful machine to see what that's like ^_^

[digitalangel.livejournal.com]

You can switch desktops easily enough. When logging in, you can select which desktop (it's on the bottom labelled "session type").

You can decide upon desktop each time you startup.

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? Ahh, I'll try that then... ^_^

[warlockuk.livejournal.com]

I've found VLC to be a pile of shite across the board myself. Forget what I used on Linux...

[lpetersson.livejournal.com]

Really? I quite like it for Windows... :-0

[cbr-paul.livejournal.com]

Eudora can handle some webmail-based accoutns but it does require some customisation (ultimately, Hotmail, Yahoo and the likes don't really want you to be able to read and send mail without viewing all the adverts that sustain their free service).

http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showpost.php?p=12121&postcount=7