Linux

I haz win 7 on disk now.
I haz no dvd drive on laptop.
I dun did try to create a win 7 usb disk. That failed.

Anyone you can borrow an external drive from anyone? Would offer mine, but somebody else has pinched it.

Windows: fatal error like this:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/dual-boot-windows-7-ubuntu.html
(see end)

LED: mute sound

Laptop:HP pavillion dm1

It's taken years, but I've just discovered: vobcopy -m

Anybody planning on upgrading to the new LTS release?

I'll probably keep a LiveCD of it around but I think I'm starting to come to terms with Gnome 3.4 now. Interested in Mint's Cinnamon fork though, anybody tried that?

The LFGSS servers are likely to migrate. We're on 10.04 at the moment.

I'm not running a server at the moment unfortunately. Just interested in finding out how broken Unity is really :)

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you went for Ubuntu rather than Debian?

I will be doing a clean install of 12.04 over the weekend. Will post over the weekend about that. I tried Cinnamon a while back, and whilst I liked it. I found myself going back to XFCE mainly because thats what I have been running for years. Having said that they released 1.4 last month which has some new features, including a new Expose like feature.

If you are running 11.10 you can use these instructions to pick up a ppa for a Ubuntu build.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-cinnamon-1-4-in-ubuntu-12-0411-10.html

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you went for Ubuntu rather than Debian?

At the time it was because I was more a user than a sysadmin and that using Ubuntu on my desktop (at that time) gave me a low entry barrier into the world of sysadmin, and an environment in which I could replicate my live servers.

Nowadays I run Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop, and all of the new servers for the new project are based on CentOS.

However, LFGSS is in maintenance mode until the new stuff is done, and as it needs to survive for perhaps another year I should get it onto the new version to ensure security updates, etc. With that in mind, going to Ubuntu Server 12.04 is pretty easy as all of the existing configuration can be moved over without needing to re-work it and spend too much time on it.

Not exactly linux but its open source... This company on kickstarter are making an arduino satellite.
It's already hit its funding target, my only question is how they intend to get the thing in to LEO. Test flights on balloons are scheduled for September/October but that only takes you to 100,000 ft. The other 300,000 might prove tricky.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space

Anyway, it's a nice idea. I'd be interested in getting one of the sods to the moon or proper space. How hard can it be?

Back on topic proper, I'm currently playing with Linux Mint in a VM... I like the clean-ness of it compared to Ubuntu.

omfg RedHat EL 5 is a pain in the ass. I need to keep adding custom repo's to actually have a decent install. Current problem is Python. I need Python 2.6, but none of the repo's have pymongo as well for 2.6, only 2.4. This means I'm having to re-write shit loads of code to use old functions sigh

Is there no equivalent of Ubuntu's Launchpad.net where someone might have alpha builds of the packages you need?

Oh yeah, that's how I got Python 2.6 installed... however I've no idea how to build PyMongo into 2.6 ... guess I can do it by source perhaps

facepalm source install took 3 seconds and worked fine.

fuck package management! :)

Linux Mint sucks balls.

That is all.

I'm using a flava of linux that installs from binaries for the first time in YEARS.

Story: I gave up on Gentoo a couple of years ago and have been running strictly Windows until a week or two ago. Had a massive problem with Windows 8 (ugh), and couldn't get XP or 7 installed (ugh). Finally decided to grab a linux distro and try getting Office up with Wine. Booted into Ubuntu and was not impressed. Decided to grab Fedora (although was tempted by Slackware. Less by Gentoo. I can't really see how big the Gentoo community is anymore, but it seemed to be collapsing when I jumped ship). Happy with Fedora so far. Office is running, although large doc files seem a bit sluggish (~80k words with hundreds of footnotes).

Anyway. My point about binaries: It feels like cheating.

That is all.

(I guess I should figure out this SRPM stuff).

I heard they have padding for any hardware you've got.

But it won't support your Broadcom...

Hmm best linux for a windows person ? Need to quickly install a laptop

Mint

ok ta. I normally use Gentoo but that's a bit hardcore for them

Is Gentoo still good? I bailed on it about 4 or 5 years ago when I was getting endless conflicts because I wasn't updating enough. I'm enjoying Fedora, but I miss compiling everything for minimal gains which I can't notice.

Well you still get the occational fuck up, but I tend to run the ~ branches so it's my own fault. I really like it, but not using it as a desktop

Mint

i'm about to install mint on a laptop and trying to decide between cinnamon or MATE and mint 13 or mint 14. More windows-like the better. any suggestions?