[FredLUG] Re: half the night of sleep

[Bradford Abbott]

Side issue. I cannot explain this.

I am having a brain freeze. I can't find terminal in ubuntu.


On Apr 2, 6:49 pm, Bradford Abbott <bradfordleeabb... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> now paul...
> i am joining the ubuntu fringe group of the fredlug, so we don't hear
> tons and tons about fedora.
>
> On Apr 2, 6:35 pm, Paul Frields <sticks... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately "better" is not always what it's cracked up to be.
> > Proprietary drivers can be hazardous given that they don't keep up
> > with development in the kernel and other code, and hence can crash
> > without warning and without any way of debugging or fixing them
> > properly. There are countless problems in forums for all distros that
> > tell the tale of woe visited on hapless users by proprietary drivers!
>
> > To benefit from the development done in actual free software, try the
> > Nouveau (NVidia) and Radeon (ATI) drivers that should just work out of
> > the box for most systems. That's what's installed by default in
> > Fedora. Free video drivers are an incredibly important part of the
> > desktop user experience and it's why Red Hat has invested in
> > participating in the communities that create that code.
>
> > Paul
>
> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Chris O'Donnell <chri... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What video card? You may need to load a proprietary driver. Although Ubuntu
> > > usually tells you if there is a proprietary driver available that will give
> > > better performance.
>
> > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bradford Abbott
> > > <bradfordleeabb... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> So, I jumped in. Loaded ubuntu.
> > >> Slow load on the old laptop. But within minutes I am sold. Wonderful.
> > >> The computer runs. Background processes are near nil. It's intuitive.
> > >> And every single item in every pulldown list is either readily
> > >> understandable, or figure-out-able from the hover-hint.
>
> > >> Now my problem. (you knew there was at least one.)
>
> > >> I can only run 800by600 pixels (4:3)
> > >> and my ubuntu window is minimum one inch away from each edge of the
> > >> 14.something inch screen.
>
> > >> well, sacrificed some sleep, sleeping in before work, gonna be tired.
> > >> can't stay up to fix this. i am just a hobby-ist.
>
> > >> Back to the windows for answers.
> > >> but... but... this is so pretty!
> > >> My computer works! it's right here!
>
> > >> I can't believe i need a modern day computer to run linux. one day all
> > >> the stars will align.
>
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