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Old 09-12-2012, 18:24
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The Puppy Linux derivative "Exprimo" has the option to switch window managers between JWM and Enlightenment E17 which gives users a chance to get acquainted with it. It is quite an elegant Desktop Environment.

Some discussion and download links here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81528
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Old 10-12-2012, 21:50
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Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) is the best ever. I've had a few minor problems but the regular updates and a spot of googling have fixed them very quickly.

I'm using it on an old HP Pavilion desktop. I have XP on a dual boot but to be honest it just looks poor and performs very badly in comparison. A new Samsung 24" monitor and the connection of my old but excellent Dinovo Edge bluetooth keyboard, really, is giving the best computer experience I've ever had. Fast, trouble free, and really good looking. Setup:

Firefox 17.01 with FT Deepdark 5.4.6
Thunderbird 17 email TT Deepdark 4.0
Libre Office
Adwaita theme
Space-Clouds wallpaper.
Skype
etc etc etc

I've even got my trusty old Lotus Organizer working under wine, can access all my files on the windows partition, and now prefer the use of that very well behaved sidebar. Brilliant operating system for me.
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Old 11-12-2012, 22:29
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Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) is the best ever.
12.10 for me. It fixed a few problems I was having with 12.04, and I love the improvements to the workspace switcher. I've also been able to get Aero working in Win7 running in VirtualBox under 12.10, which I couldn't do in 12.04.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they add to 13.04.
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Old 15-12-2012, 21:57
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12.10 for me. It fixed a few problems I was having with 12.04, and I love the improvements to the workspace switcher. I've also been able to get Aero working in Win7 running in VirtualBox under 12.10, which I couldn't do in 12.04.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they add to 13.04.
That's good to know.

I'll most likely wait for 13.04, wait several months, back up and give it a bash. I sort of mentally, and intuitively, left the windows interface after XP but impressed it's all working for you.
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Old 16-12-2012, 09:01
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That's good to know.

I'll most likely wait for 13.04, wait several months, back up and give it a bash. I sort of mentally, and intuitively, left the windows interface after XP but impressed it's all working for you.
Yeah, I'll give mainline Ubuntu another go at 13.04. Too many poor reviews of 12.10, though some people have found it fine of course. I've been using 12.04 on the missus' laptop, and I have to say Unity has finally grown on me. I just love it now.

I was really glad to read of improvements to Unity and Compiz recently, and also of the decision to stay one step behind Gnome releases. It makes sense for them to do it this way, as Gnome development seems so divisive these days. They have to make Ubuntu as stable as possible, and this will help imho.

13.04 will be excellent I reckon. But it will have to be to get me off KDE.
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Old 18-12-2012, 06:50
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I sort of mentally, and intuitively, left the windows interface after XP but impressed it's all working for you.
Heh - everything except Chrome under Aero in Win7. For some reason Chrome and Aero and Win7 and VirtualBox get on about as well as a box of cats during mating season. There's probably a fix out there somewhere, but I can run Chrome under Linux or Win7 without Aero so haven't bothered to find out.

Everything else is working swimmingly well under 12.10.
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Old 18-12-2012, 06:58
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Yeah, I'll give mainline Ubuntu another go at 13.04. Too many poor reviews of 12.10...
I thought the same at first. Then I realised a lot of the grumbling is around the Amazon results appearing in Dash searches. Fortunately this can be switched off via "System Settings > Privacy".

...I have to say Unity has finally grown on me. I just love it now.
Wait until you see the improvements under 12.10 (assuming they make it through to 13.04). I make a lot of use of workspaces in my day job, sometimes running 9 workspaces at once. The enhancements in this area are a joy to behold.

They're slowly turning Unity into something beautiful. I'm looking forward to the enhancements in 13.04. Hopefully they'll find some useful things around the desktop integration technology they added in 12.10.
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Old 23-12-2012, 20:31
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If youve had enough of xmas TV or need a excuse to get away from relatives

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2271

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.9/

Xfce also
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2263
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Old 23-12-2012, 21:13
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I'm using E17 with Bodhi Linux at the moment. It can be a bit strange at first, but like most DE's it's not long before you figure it out. The major selling point for me is the low system resources, meaning I can stick an Ubuntu based distro on our ancient-specced EeePC and it's still fast. It's amazing what it does with such minimal demands.
E17 looks nice. Does it support Dropbox and Skype? I can always fire up Virtualbox and try it out but if you happen to know that would be handy.

Still chugging away on Ubuntu 10.10 here. I invested a lot of effort getting it rock-solid and it just feels right.
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Old 23-12-2012, 22:51
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Still chugging away on Ubuntu 10.10 here. I invested a lot of effort getting it rock-solid and it just feels right.

You wont be upgrading to latest version then, that would be to you, its totally different.



E17 looks nice. Does it support Dropbox and Skype? I can always fire up Virtualbox and try it out but if you happen to know that would be handy.
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Skype = yes
type it into the search box
http://appcenter.bodhilinux.com/software/searchPost

Dropbox = yes
type it into the search box
http://appcenter.bodhilinux.com/software/searchPost

http://www.bodhilinux.com/index.php

Bohdi installs with the very basic of stuff, just to get you a desktop.
Then you just use the App ctr
http://appcenter.bodhilinux.com/
Choose what you want, hit install, job done

Its also Ubuntu based, so you get youre stability with it.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/about_bodhi.php
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Old 02-01-2013, 20:04
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Dunno if anyone here was aware, but there's been a countdown on Ubuntu.com for a big announcement set for today. Well, a video has been released featuring Mark Shuttleworth, bigging up his much vaunted (and widely expected) entry into the mobile phone arena - Ubuntu Phone.

At the moment it seems to be an OS looking for a vendor, but I have to say despite my reservations I think it looks really lovely. There's a lot of hurdles for them to overcome if this is to be a reality though - just ask Microsoft, who have thrown no end of money at their failures.

So I don't know how they're going to make this happen, but they're clearly very bullish about it. Based on the demo, yes I would like to give one a go but as ever the price would have to be right. But it doesn't look crap, and I really suspected it might be.
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Old 03-01-2013, 22:02
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You wont be upgrading to latest version then, that would be to you, its totally different.
Indeed Unity is but I've got Xubuntu 12.4 in a VM and that's OK. Thank you very much for the rest of your post.
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Old 12-01-2013, 20:56
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Had to post up. Dunno if anyone here is aware, but the Enlightenment E17 desktop recently reached it's first stable release. I've been using Bodhi Linux, which is an Ubuntu spinoff using this desktop, on my now really pretty dated specs-wise Asus EeePC 701 4Gb Surf. Well, completely surprising me, Bodhi recently provided this new stable release of E17 for the slightly older version of Bodhi I'm using.

And I have to say, I don't know what kind of Linux related Voodoo magic they are employing, but it's absolutely staggering just what they coax out of this tiny forgotten slab of joy. Once the update had installed, I rebooted and was greeted with a new configuration setup screen. I opted for the "Fancy" option, which adds lots of lovely widgets on screen, and a rather gorgeous dock too at the bottom. But also amazingly it's added compositing effects such as drop shadows and fade-in, fade-out effects. But none of this has impacted performance. The Eee is never going to be the fastest netbook, no matter what you put on it, but this is the closest to perfection I've ever seen it. Here's a sweet pic.

Would definitely, definitely seriously consider putting this on my main desktop.
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Old 12-01-2013, 23:20
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Had to post up. Dunno if anyone here is aware, but the Enlightenment E17 desktop recently reached it's first stable release. I've been using Bodhi Linux, which is an Ubuntu spinoff using this desktop, on my now really pretty dated specs-wise Asus EeePC 701 4Gb Surf. Well, completely surprising me, Bodhi recently provided this new stable release of E17 for the slightly older version of Bodhi I'm using.

And I have to say, I don't know what kind of Linux related Voodoo magic they are employing, but it's absolutely staggering just what they coax out of this tiny forgotten slab of joy. Once the update had installed, I rebooted and was greeted with a new configuration setup screen. I opted for the "Fancy" option, which adds lots of lovely widgets on screen, and a rather gorgeous dock too at the bottom. But also amazingly it's added compositing effects such as drop shadows and fade-in, fade-out effects. But none of this has impacted performance. The Eee is never going to be the fastest netbook, no matter what you put on it, but this is the closest to perfection I've ever seen it. Here's a sweet pic.

Would definitely, definitely seriously consider putting this on my main desktop.
Space Harrier. Ain't played it for about 20 years now.

As for the distro, well it looks a bit childish for me. Perhaps it's aimed at Mac users or the new Windows 8 crowd. I'll stick with me Slackware.
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Old 13-01-2013, 10:58
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Had to post up. Dunno if anyone here is aware, but the Enlightenment E17 desktop recently reached it's first stable release. I've been using Bodhi Linux, which is an Ubuntu spinoff using this desktop, on my now really pretty dated specs-wise Asus EeePC 701 4Gb Surf. Well, completely surprising me, Bodhi recently provided this new stable release of E17 for the slightly older version of Bodhi I'm using.

And I have to say, I don't know what kind of Linux related Voodoo magic they are employing, but it's absolutely staggering just what they coax out of this tiny forgotten slab of joy. Once the update had installed, I rebooted and was greeted with a new configuration setup screen. I opted for the "Fancy" option, which adds lots of lovely widgets on screen, and a rather gorgeous dock too at the bottom. But also amazingly it's added compositing effects such as drop shadows and fade-in, fade-out effects. But none of this has impacted performance. The Eee is never going to be the fastest netbook, no matter what you put on it, but this is the closest to perfection I've ever seen it. Here's a sweet pic.

Would definitely, definitely seriously consider putting this on my main desktop.
Tried it last week, but found it way to basic for what i expexct from a OS.

Right click doesnt work, drag and drop to deskop doesnt work, setting background is long winded etc etc etc
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Old 13-01-2013, 17:16
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As for the distro, well it looks a bit childish for me. Perhaps it's aimed at Mac users or the new Windows 8 crowd. I'll stick with me Slackware.
Well, that's just the default look. You can make it look any way you want. There's nothing childish about it at all.

Tried it last week, but found it way to basic for what i expexct from a OS.

Right click doesnt work, drag and drop to deskop doesnt work, setting background is long winded etc etc etc
It's easy to use, come on! Everything's on left click on the desktop. I don't mind different as long as it works, and it does.
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Old 19-01-2013, 21:38
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3 pages of a survey for Gnome.
Its only by 5000 people but still intresting.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...2012_res&num=1
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Old 19-01-2013, 23:04
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Gets a bug fix release

http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.7
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Old 23-01-2013, 19:22
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTI4MjE
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Old 25-01-2013, 19:38
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Oooh gets spare hard drive out ready for sunday

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTI4MzA
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Old 25-01-2013, 19:40
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Intresting

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTI4MzM

Is it yet another nail in the coffin of Gnome\Unity\Mate?
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Old 28-01-2013, 21:17
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Hi All,

I've used Linux in the past but not for a while.

I have a few years old laptop connected to my TV that I use for streaming videos, music, etc. from my other PC.

I want to swap to using a linux distro for this and am looking for some suggestions please. I need it to play video over the network (different formats - xvid, mkv, etc.), music, and also a simple web browser also.

Are there any good linux distros that will do this?
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Old 28-01-2013, 22:07
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Hi All,

I've used Linux in the past but not for a while.

I have a few years old laptop connected to my TV that I use for streaming videos, music, etc. from my other PC.

I want to swap to using a linux distro for this and am looking for some suggestions please. I need it to play video over the network (different formats - xvid, mkv, etc.), music, and also a simple web browser also.

Are there any good linux distros that will do this?
Just about all of them will do that kind of stuff nowadays.

I would say that some distros are easier than others in getting file sharing and streaming etc set up. Linux Mint and Ubuntu are particularly user friendly in that respect.

I've also got openSUSE, and that took a wee bit more work to share files with Windows machines. And Crunchbang Linux felt like I was going back 5 years or so, to get things working. (fun though )
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Old 29-01-2013, 10:28
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Does anyone here make money out of Linux or are you all just using it for hobbyist stuff?
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Old 29-01-2013, 17:19
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Does anyone here make money out of Linux or are you all just using it for hobbyist stuff?
Eh? Linux is used the same way as Windows and Macs: Surfing the internet, watching youtube, and trolling
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