Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (21 Viewers)
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i tried that with the md5sum application for windows, got the checksum file, verified the image, burnt it AGAIN and verified the data on it too!!! but it simply didnt boot.
so i downloaded the DVD image, but then after booting, when it's loading, in verbose mode it says 'loading gdm' an then the screen goes blank and my monitor LED keeps blinking. the system doent respond to any keystrokes.
i just gave up n gave the then faulty Kubuntu 6.10 cd a try(it used to hang while loading the partition manager before), and it worked this time, so installed Kubuntu!
anyways, you guys have any idea why my screen went blank when loading gdm in Gentoo live dvd?
so i downloaded the DVD image, but then after booting, when it's loading, in verbose mode it says 'loading gdm' an then the screen goes blank and my monitor LED keeps blinking. the system doent respond to any keystrokes.
i just gave up n gave the then faulty Kubuntu 6.10 cd a try(it used to hang while loading the partition manager before), and it worked this time, so installed Kubuntu!
anyways, you guys have any idea why my screen went blank when loading gdm in Gentoo live dvd?
Fair enough... but it's just little things, like the fact that I have to go through about 5 steps to set up a wallpaper randomising script in Gnome, but it's a default option in KDE. And the way Gnome would sometimes choke when I tried to reposition some of the icons in my panel (they turn into little question marks and become unresponsive). Of course, none of these things alone is enough to make me choose one over the other, but they add up.
But that's where the settings are...
May I suggest you try Utilities -> KMag Screen Magnifier?
That was the first place I looked, looked around, didn't seem to be what I was looking for, clicked away, and then 15 minutes later, found myself back there again.. 
May I suggest you try Utilities -> KMag Screen Magnifier?
"bloated" eh? For the love of god tell me how to remap window resizing from Alt+MiddleButton to Alt+RightButton (as in kde). Here's the answer. You can't without hacking the source code. Bloat may be evil but when the defaults are f up, I'll take configurability any day.
I'd rather take a bit longer to find what I need rather than not find it, know what I mean?
That may be because the guis for stuff like wireless aren't very good in the first place. I never use gui for that myself. In fact there's pretty active development in this area right now, so soon I think you'll have much nicer guis for wifi.
But the real reason you couldn't get it working is because it wasn't really there at all, not a proper implementation.
Bloat may be evil but when the defaults are f up, I'll take configurability any day.I'd rather take a bit longer to find what I need rather than not find it, know what I mean?
That was the first place I looked, looked around, didn't seem to be what I was looking for, clicked away, and then 15 minutes later, found myself back there again..
But the real reason you couldn't get it working is because it wasn't really there at all, not a proper implementation.
It's hard to say why this happens, it's usually a hardware thing. When the screen goes black it's probably your video driver that's messed up.
Some cd images are just evil, I remember trying to boot from the Ubuntu Dapper cd and it just wouldn't, crashed everytime, full system freeze. I think I worked around it eventually, don't remember how anymore.
Some cd images are just evil, I remember trying to boot from the Ubuntu Dapper cd and it just wouldn't, crashed everytime, full system freeze. I think I worked around it eventually, don't remember how anymore.
According to Mark Shuttleworth, Feisty Fawn will largely be geared towards end-user/desktop stuff, while a lot of what was seen in Edgy was funky under-the-hood stuff. Granted, Edgy is the first and only Ubuntu I've tried so far, so I must admit I'm very much looking forward to the final release of Feisty (I've got the date marked down on my calendar umpkin
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According to Mark Shuttleworth, Feisty Fawn will largely be geared towards end-user/desktop stuff, while a lot of what was seen in Edgy was funky under-the-hood stuff. Granted, Edgy is the first and only Ubuntu I've tried so far, so I must admit I'm very much looking forward to the final release of Feisty (I've got the date marked down on my calendar umpkin
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gdm has a way of screwing up itself. Do you know what gdm does? It manages sessions, so that you can have multiple users logged in at the same time, saves your session on exit (if you tell it too) etc. But gdm (and I think also kdm) can be flaky, so I prefer not to use them. I log in at the console and type startx.