Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (5 Viewers)

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yeah. I'm in the process of installing it over my ex-Windows 7 partition.

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's done!

 

[Martin]

welcome back :wink:

 

[Omair]

Now install codecs and vlc and enjoy your system, again

 

[blondu]

Now install codecs and vlc and enjoy your system, again

i so hate all the programs and restarts after i'm formatting my hard...it takes ages to get back to the way it was before

 

[Martin]

i so hate all the programs and restarts after i'm formatting my hard...it takes ages to get back to the way it was before

Not in linux. You just keep a list of programs that you had installed and feed that list to the package manager which will install them one by one. As for your settings and configuration stuff that remains on your system, don't have to set up every program from scratch.

 

[JCK]

Geeks all of you

 

[Omair]

Not in linux. You just keep a list of programs that you had installed and feed that list to the package manager which will install them one by one. As for your settings and configuration stuff that remains on your system, don't have to set up every program from scratch.

OR

In Linux, just backup your home folder and format or do whatever you want and get it back again and it will be as good as new + you won't lose any setting ..

 

[Martin]

OR

In Linux, just backup your home folder and format or do whatever you want and get it back again and it will be as good as new + you won't lose any setting ..

Settings are in your home directory, yes. But programs are installed globally on the system. So restoring your home directory will not restore the programs that were installed before the format/upgrade/whatever. That's why I say generate a list of installed programs you can then reinstall.

 

[Omair]

Not in linux. You just keep a list of programs that you had installed and feed that list to the package manager which will install them one by one. As for your settings and configuration stuff that remains on your system, don't have to set up every program from scratch.

Settings are in your home directory, yes. But programs are installed globally on the system. So restoring your home directory will not restore the programs that were installed before the format/upgrade/whatever. That's why I say generate a list of installed programs you can then reinstall.

I know i just didn't bold what I should've bolded before ..

all I mean that all you need is the list and the backup and you're set

 

[icemaη]

Okay Martin, here's something I got from the log

RADEON[0]: [dri]RadeonDRIGetVersion failed to open DRM

My display driver is ATI Radeon
Over to you geek...

 

[Martin]

I'm not a support worker, unfortunately. You should ask on www.ubuntuforums.org

What else does it say?

 

[icemaη]

I need to find an Indian

Didn't find anything when I grepped EE... Just the above statement...

 

[Martin]

I need to find an Indian

Didn't find anything when I grepped EE... Just the above statement...

http://foss.in/
http://planet.foss.in/

There's tons of foss people in India

 

[gray]

Okay Martin, here's something I got from the log

RADEON[0]: [dri]RadeonDRIGetVersion failed to open DRM

My display driver is ATI Radeon
Over to you geek...

DRM in Linux?

My gosh, it's begun...

 

[Martin]

(I'm clickable)

 

[Rami]

DRM in Linux?

My gosh, it's begun...

Direct Rendering Manager?

 

[icemaη]

Okay, another observation...

I tried $startx like Jack suggested, I get an error like
/dev/null: Permission denied. Unable to create Xsession.

 

[Martin]

You should debug this with ubuntu people or on www.launchpad.net, but just a small suggestion. Did you try the "alternative install cd"? Sometimes that one works when the regular one doesn't.

 

[icemaη]

I will try that. If that doesn't work, I'll try the Ubuntu forums...