I noticed this on my laptop; the default Gnome layout looks horrible on it (its
too little space on 1280x768, which is considered low-res nowadays). I use the
one-panel Linux Mint configuration now, though. I don't think the default
layout should change though, perse. Perhaps we'll find these pr
Personally, I've been thinking about suggesting an 'updates'/'main-updates'
repo, for at least commonly used applications. It would be implemented in a way
in which apt wouldn't auto upgrade the program (or at least ask first), but it
would be accessed by an addon maybe, to the Ubuntu Software C
This is true on so many levels, Canonical, are you paying attention?!
Danny Piccirillo wrote:
>I came across this on reddit, thought it would be worth bringing here.
>http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/c090v/next_thing_for_ubuntu_to_learn_how_to_pay_their/
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunt
I think that providing a completely free install option with the Linux-libre
kernel would be more trouble than it's worth. As a couple have pointed out, it
could cause more accessibility issues and would require resources for its
upkeep that could be better used elsewhere.
There is a completel
Sorry for top-posting; it's Android.
I don't think he has an issue with the governance of the kernel project per se;
he's just presenting a fact. You can't really have a completely free Linux
distro or install option, which is what he proposed, when the very kernel of
the OS itself is non-free.
rker on the list, but I feel a bit compelled to
>> jump into the fray here.
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:49 -0400, John King wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ubuntu is targeted at a more mainstream user; that user more than likely
>>> wants his computer to
>>
Once again, the issue is basically that the Mp3 format is patented, nothing
else really that I know of.
Travis Beaty wrote:
>Hmm. This confuses me, then. Because I know it was a problem at one
>point, at least with SuSE. I had to get different packages from plf in
>order to play them.
>
>- T
GNewSense isn't an active project from what I could tell the last time I
checked out their site. Trisquel's more up-to-date.
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>On 10 June 2010 17:32, David Schlesinger wrote:
>> Having gotten that authoritative answer, I'm _still_ not sure it would have
>> the slightest
You're not alone; I too have found this confusing at times. My workaround was
to install Docky!
Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I've used Ubuntu since Hoary and love it.
>
>One thing that I have found has caught me out a lot recently is the
>appearance of active and minimised windows in
