Comments on Archimedes Trajano: The Ordeal with Ubuntu

I was using Mint rather than Ubuntu after Mandriva...

2007-02-14T22:32:00.000-05:00

I was using Mint rather than Ubuntu after Mandriva and FreeBSD (which I haven't blogged about yet).

I do use Beryl and I have done the configurations to the way I like it now (for the most part).

However, I still cannot get the phone to sync up nor get the webcam working with MSN or Yahoo.

I still haven't found a theme as nice as LunaQQ for Gnome or KDE. In fact the only thing I would like to change in Luna QQ is to have a bigger min/max/close button like the Visa smoked theme on beryl.

Also the machine is not as responsive with and without Beryl (actually more responsive with Beryl) than it is on Windows.

So back to Windows yet again.

You never get away all those codec issue with Ubun...

2007-02-14T22:15:00.000-05:00

You never get away all those codec issue with Ubuntu. It is due to license that prevent them to include the right propiertary codec during the OS installation. So you may still need Automatix even Feisty is out.

About Beryl, though I'm enjoying it for the moment. I don't recommend unless you prepare to get your hands dirty to hacking the Xorg configuration files yourself. And it doesn't work very well with some applications. I'm not sure if it is in beta stage as well.

But I quite enjoy using Linux, esp Ubuntu. I learnt a lots of thing from it.

I am waiting for Feisty Fawn to come out before I ...

2007-02-08T14:50:00.000-05:00

I am waiting for Feisty Fawn to come out before I try Ubuntu again. The last beta (I haven't tried the current one) didn't work out on my machine either. Apparently someone else had the same issue, though I can't find the link anymore (I need the message so I can look it up again).

I've used Beryl with AIGLX on Mandriva and it is quite nice, except that Mandriva 2007 does not really provide a way of easily putting in newer versions of their software unless someone RPMs it (same with almost any distro I've seen) so trying to install KDE 3.5.6 just corrupted my Mandriva installation.

Try ubuntu 6.10 and beryl with AIGLX instead o xgl...

2007-02-08T14:38:00.000-05:00

Try ubuntu 6.10 and beryl with AIGLX instead o xgl. It takes almost no CPU time at all on my nvidia laptop. Unfortunately, I don't know how to help you with your boot problem with ubuntu 6.10, perhaps you could add some option to GRUB when it tries to boot the live CD...

Xgl, looks nice, but BAD IDEA, the thing was too C...

2006-12-01T21:26:00.000-05:00

Xgl, looks nice, but BAD IDEA, the thing was too CPU intensive. I also tried switching to Kubuntu by installing kubuntu-desktop. Seems okay, but it doesn't "feel" as good as Gnome I guess

Anyway I decided to be masochistic and try to see ...

2006-11-30T18:02:00.000-05:00

Anyway I decided to be masochistic and try to see if I can get the video working again. Good news I got it working. I used Automatix rather than EasyUbuntu and it was way smoother. So the lesson is don't bother with EasyUbuntu. I used Automatix to reinstall the NVidia drivers and some of the codecs. I also installed Picassa which works quite nicely I might add.