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Written by Chad
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Monday, 21 March 2011 06:13 |
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Not quite content with a standard interface from Ubuntu 10.10 desktop (as of this writing the Unity interface is not supported yet with GMA500 video cards hence the reason I am using desktop instead of netbook interface), I went back to searching for more distros to try.
One that I am giving a try out is Fubuntu (go check the site for more info on it) and one of the things that I love is that it is FEDORA based. So all my past user experience with Fedora on other laptops, RH based servers etc comes into play.
Fubuntu is new enough right now that it didn't come with Wifi working out of the box, or the Poulsbo driver working either, so I'm having to work on getting that going. But I do like the media/icons/color scheme and interface tweaks it has over the normal desktoping environment too. If I make this my full distro for the netbook, I'll come back and write a "Fubuntu how-to for Dell Mini 1010" :) |
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Written by Chad
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Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:44 |
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Sad story but true.. my 1.1 or 1.0 version of Joli was a better deal for my laptop than the updated 1.2. In fact, 1.2 actually crashed itself. So I took the time to download the ISO install it via that. it came back up, but with all my custom settings gone again and STILL missing video support etc, I felt the time was ripe to try out some more.
I didn't search very far however. JoliOS is based on Ubuntu Netbook Revision 10.10. I installed that with some issues, mostly that the Poulsbo driver doesn't come installed on it for the GMA 500 video card. Followed some instructions from the site and it was up and going with essentially a copy and pasted sudo command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-3d
from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo
The GOOD news is that my VIDEO works again! And it even sees and uses my TV tuner! How freaking sweet. Ultimately I think I'm too much of a power user for Joli. I need to be able to have quicker smoother access to nitty gritty parts of the system; namely easier ways to install packages (just leave the Synaptic package manager in there huh?) as well as the folder system, terminal access etc. And seriously why do videos work with Ubuntu and not with Joli? How did you guys screw that up?
So now I'm off to install Citrix, the NX Client, and tweak on the interface to make more use of the small screen. I really dont think it needs a complete redesign.. the Unity interface would be great if it worked on the Dell mini 10. But.. I'm functional and that is better than pretty :) |
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Written by Chad
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:21 |
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I finally decided to upgrade. It's been the process of better part of a few weeks, but it's working. SEO is even working. Can't upgrade to 1.6 yet even though it is out already because I'm scared to upgrade the PHP parser on my server, but that will probably come soon too.
Onward and upward.. be careful out there. bwahaha |
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