I am now on Ubuntu :)

Hi guyz,
I am now on Ubuntu.
Thanks to Cool_G5 and Mehul Ved who helped me via Y! messenger!

Btw my first hour on Linux has been great, not as hindered as I thought!

btw I will be making copies of Ubuntu CD and Fedora DVD that Cool G5 has given me. I stay in Thane. So anybody needing can get in touch with me

jus PM me!

[People with tendencies to OS flame wars are advised to spare this thread]

OMG Winblows Fanboy now using Ubuntu :shock:

Great man! Keep moving with Linux and OSS.

BTW I think you do not need much time to be a linux intermediate user. You can try Arch linux then, it's one of the best available distro that can be configured on your way from the scratch.

CadCrazy said:
OMG Winblows Fanboy now using Ubuntu

I don't wish to be rude or arrogant, but if you never noticed, I was never a Windows fanboy. Even now, though I am impressed by Linux, it does mean that I am set to trash Windows. After somedays, may be I will be able to afford a high-end Mac. That doesn't mean that i will trash Windows and Linux that day!

Do you get that? And don't expect me to fill this forum with nauseating crap like praka123 bashing MS and other things.

This thread was just to share the excitement, not YOUR interests

@Deb, ya man, Linux ain't as difficult as I though it would be! Will surely try that distro once I get hands-on with Ubuntu

Same here... Two days ago, I have begun using linux and kick started with Ubuntu. I'm starting to like it now

rohan_shenoy said:
I don't wish to be rude or arrogant, but if you never noticed, I was never a Windows fanboy. Even now, though I am impressed by Linux, it does mean that I am set to trash Windows. After somedays, may be I will be able to afford a high-end Mac. That doesn't mean that i will trash Windows and Linux that day!

Do you get that? And don't expect me to fill this forum with nauseating crap like praka123 bashing MS and other things.

This thread was just to share the excitement, not YOUR interests

@Deb, ya man, Linux ain't as difficult as I though it would be! Will surely try that distro once I get hands-on with Ubuntu

Abe maine sirf mazaq ke tor pe bola tha. Forgot to put

smiley. Tune to mera yu hi kachra kar diya. Read my siggy.
BTW Happy linuxing

Even i'm on ubuntu too

Cool, Congrats.

I am sure the OS section in this forum will help you a lot.

And do not get angry over CadCrazy. LOL, he is a nice guy, he was just kidding.

din said:
And do not get angry over CadCrazy. LOL, he is a nice guy, he was just kidding.

Thank u sir. Dil garden garden ho gaya

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din said:
And do not get angry over CadCrazy. LOL, he is a nice guy, he was just kidding.

You, sir, lie.

Good to hear that Rohan

Just keep digging & you will learn a lot.

Me too enjoying Fedora 9

Welcome to the bandwagon
To be honest, I joined it an hour ago

Good luck linuxing to both of you and OSS Section seems dead here.

is it true that we can get ubuntu DVD for free

That's great move.. welcome to the Open Source Community.. install nmap and start using the power of Linux in hacking

@R2K
Linux is free, as in free beer and the air we breath
Thus, Ubuntu is also free
Download the ubuntu iso from their site, burn it onto a disc, boot from it and install it and viola, you are using Ubuntu

as for others
please help me here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96656

@rohan_shenoy.
Yep man; thats the spirit!

We should not be the slaves of technology; they are our slaves. And just like a gardner will surely spoil the pudding

; one OS will fit a job better than the other. thats what we ought to do; use them to our benefit and liking. Being a fanboy is like being a slave IMO. What do you guys say?

alias api = 'sudo sudo apt-get install'
api zsh mrxvt mocp filelight

Use zsh on mrxvt for pure shell bliss

IronManForever said:
Being a fanboy is like being a slave IMO

This comment is to be ignored by certain percentage of members in this forum. Reading it will only pi$s them off.

^^
LOL
But true

Congratulations

rohan_shenoy said:
Hi guyz,
I am now on Ubuntu.
Thanks to Cool_G5 and Mehul Ved who helped me via Y! messenger!

you should hang out at the irc channel now

Good that you got Ubuntu

I still have some issues with Ubuntu and Linux in general at the moment (although I have been running a dual-boot system with Ubuntu for close to two years now and I am fairly experienced with Linux)

1) Wine sucks...I can't play Guild Wars without major lag on Linux, and if I can't play Guild Wars on that OS, I spend the majority of my time on one that can.

2) I need Office 2007 very badly for documents that I get from Uni mates and so on...using Virtualbox or w/e to run it is a pain. Linux Office suites are epic fail atm, compared to Office 2007.

3) I cannot use my webcam on Linux...which sucks as I use it almost everyday...I have to boot into Windows to use it and combined with GW, this means I never ever run Linux on my system anymore.

@ hullap - Give the address of the IRC. :razz:

@ Faraaz - It will be better that you stay on windows, if you are finding it tough in ubuntu linux.

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faraaz said:
Good that you got Ubuntu
2) I need Office 2007 very badly for documents that I get from Uni mates and so on...using Virtualbox or w/e to run it is a pain. Linux Office suites are epic fail atm, compared to Office 2007.

Openoffice on ubuntu can open you MS Office 2007 documents. Are you missing some feature present in MS Office 2007?

faraaz said:
3) I cannot use my webcam on Linux...which sucks as I use it almost everyday...I have to boot into Windows to use it and combined with GW, this means I never ever run Linux on my system anymore.

Which webcam? See if my blog post can help *mehulved.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/hurray-got-my-webcam-working-on-linux/

faraaz said:
1) Wine sucks...I can't play Guild Wars without major lag on Linux, and if I can't play Guild Wars on that OS, I spend the majority of my time on one that can.

2) I need Office 2007 very badly for documents that I get from Uni mates and so on...using Virtualbox or w/e to run it is a pain. Linux Office suites are epic fail atm, compared to Office 2007.

3) I cannot use my webcam on Linux...which sucks as I use it almost everyday...I have to boot into Windows to use it and combined with GW, this means I never ever run Linux on my system anymore.

1. Use windows for that. Emulation needs a lotta resources and isnt simply upto the mark if you want to play windows games most of the time.

2. OpenOffice.org as mehulved said. Though you may have been used to the MSOffice 2007 UI. Otherwise office suites are built almost the same, and I do not percieve much difference in using O

/MSoffice(Pre-2007)/Thinkfree/LotusSymphony/ Etc; as for a casual user, all provide the essentiial functions; OpenOffice.org is the best once can get in Linux and it adheres to its promise :!:

. If you are working with macros; then you have a tough time.

3. Well; depends on your hardware exactly. My webcam worked after downloading a simple file for it.

mehulved said:
Openoffice on ubuntu can open you MS Office 2007 documents. Are you missing some feature present in MS Office 2007?

Which webcam? See if my blog post can help *mehulved.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/hurray-got-my-webcam-working-on-linux/

The webcam is the one which comes built in with the ASUS G1S. Probably they've updated drivers by now (I had to mess with /dev stuff last time on Gutsy Gibbon to get it working, and even then, not very well). For Office, I have to use templates, work with field text like inserted tables of contents, headers/footers etc which Open Office does NOT handle properly. It also messes up the formatting a LOT, in that the document looks one way on Linux but looks messed up and out of whack on Windows (and this is just text I'm talking about. If you are using overlays and inserted images in anything but the simplest arrangement, you are screwed again).

^^ Yes thats true, why? because none is fking the other; its just that they are different. OOo file on MSO or the o0ther way round, you are likely to get errors. But If you have to take it to print to somewhere; you can always save as PDF in OOo and take it there.

Can anyone help me with Broadcom BCM4311 wireless adapter in Ubuntu Hardy? Please do not tell me to edit it's firmware or use edited/modded firmware.

@Narangz

Please check the below link, this will help you, i have installed Broadcom drivers on my laptop using this link.

*ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766560

^^It mentions editing the firmware, doesn't it?

sudo aptitude remove b43-fwcutter

Well thanks for help.

Congrats Buddy!
When you switched to Linux, i came back on Windows

^hmmm, ya even I will shortly repair my corrupted XP because my finger-pront protected pendrive is not supported in lunux

But, so far, linux has been good

ubuntu is now boring me. am having lots of problems. just hangs many times. may be coz of compiz fusion.

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
ubuntu is now boring me. am having lots of problems. just hangs many times. may be coz of compiz fusion.

please use the [rant] tags

like this
[rant]
Xp is very unstable

it keeps crashing on me, Explorer just crashed now when i was replying
*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/10925/rant.JPG

[/rant]