Ubuntu Precise Pangolin

[myglaren]

Upgraded my laptop to 12.10 Quietly Qrazy last night, also installed it on the Dell Netbook that was temporarily running Linux Mint Maya as I couldn't get the wifi to work with Ubuntu 12.04.
Found what I had been doing wrong whilst installing Mint and applied it to QQ (running from a USB dongle) and it worked fine.

When I installed it it took a while longer to get the wifi going again, mainly dumnity on my part - there are conflicting drivers for Broadcom hardware.
My laptop always just works
Haven't found any great difference yet except the update link is missing from the usual place.

The netbook, previously ground to a halt by having all of it's impressive 7Gb SSD crammed full of XP, now flies on Ubuntu with many more programs installed (office suite for one).

Discovered that it had a webcam when it wanted to take a photo of me as a start up icon. A very unpleasant experience.

I have it hooked up to the downstairs stereo currently feeding youtube music to me. Going back to it's owner tomorrow, I have been waiting for her to supply me with a username and password for weeks. Do you think she will like being Eleftheria Arvanitaki?

I would have done a clean install on mine but it wouldn't recognise the USB dongle as a boot device, despite having created it as one, and couldn't see the DVD writer - a most unusual situation.

[CitroJim]

I didn't even know QQ was released Steve. I guess it's not an LTS as regular PP updates have not mentioned it..

So, from what you say then, not a not of significant difference to be seen and not worth updating from PP then?

[myglaren]

I think it was released on Friday.

There are a few cosmetic tweaks but I haven't found much to shout about. I mainly wanted it for the Netbook, rather that Maya as I am not too familiar with Mint, although I have mucked about with it in the past and it was on the wife's laptop for a while as it didn't seem to like 10.10.

I wanted a clean install on mine as my battery is banjaxed and I keep pulling to DC connector out of it, and it is likely storing up problems for me - possibly why the USB wasn't recognised as a boot device - I have run Mint from it in the recent past, same with the DVD writer, worked fine a couple of weeks back.

I do like to have the most recent release running though, although generally wait until it has been out for a couple of weeks as the servers usually run hot but there was no delay this time.



Quantal Quetzal

[CitroJim]

That's a very pretty little bird Steve

I'll give QQ a go on my laptop at some point. Just to have a butchers...

[Gingerposer]

Newb alert (to Linux) - I quite fancy trying linux on the laptop - currently running windows 7. Is it easy enough to run it from usb flash memory, just to give it a try?

[myglaren]

Newb alert (to Linux) - I quite fancy trying linux on the laptop - currently running windows 7. Is it easy enough to run it from usb flash memory, just to give it a try?

It is indeed, I have been running Linux Mint and Ubuntu on the netbook for over a month from a 4Gb dongle - doing it this way allows you to save stuff - configurations, bookmarks and history as long as there is space on the drive.

You will need to make a bootable dongle and I don't know if that is doable from Windows without something like Nero installed but there is another option -WUBI.
I have never tried it but it runs from a folder within Windows. I believe that it is inferior to a proper installed version - as is the dongle option.

Have a shufty through the website before deciding.

I can send you a dongle with it on to borrow and try if you wish.

[Gingerposer]

I'm away all week for work, so I'll hopefully get a chance to read up about it - if I get any kind of data signal in shetland!

[myglaren]

A look at QQ (bit naff)


'nuther one:


There are alternative desktop themes. I was going to have the Cinnamon version of May but opted for Mate instead (boring)

Here is Cinnamon.

Found a better one earlier, lost power (again) and can't remember where it was.