I want to try Linux, any advice
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Managed to install Ubuntu. Works fine now, just one problem. The screen resolution is wrong. I go to System -> Preferences -> Display and under resolution there is only 640 x 480 (4:3) available.
Anything i can do to get some other resolutions?
thanks
Anything i can do to get some other resolutions?
thanks
Soldato
Managed to install Ubuntu. Works fine now, just one problem. The screen resolution is wrong. I go to System -> Preferences -> Display and under resolution there is only 640 x 480 (4:3) available.
Anything i can do to get some other resolutions?
thanks
Have you installed the relevant driver for your graphics card yet? I *think* Ubuntu should do this for you if you look at the "System"-->"Administration"-->"Hardware Driver" dialogue
Soldato
Mandriva is supposed to be good for people new to Linux. But i recommend Linux Mint. The setup isn't that different to Windows... and yes, i know you've already installed Ubuntu. Whatever... you can always change... or dual boot.
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I tried Fedora Core as my 1st distro, it was a bit heavy. My next outing was with debian, which was nice, but I quickly killed the OS by installing a lot of nonfree software out of other distro's deb packages, and fighting with metapackages. Have been using Xubuntu since then, and very reliably.
I kind of want to try Fedora again now, I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux a lot at work, and find it all to be very correct, very solid. I use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server a lot too, and it's not nice, everything just seems to be a hacky patch, like bashing Linux with a rock until it does what they want it to. There's the odd Debian machine too, and they're very reliable when you're not trying to hack nonfree stuff onto them.
Yet more OSs, there's a lot of AIX, which has a rather nifty set of built in commands to query or set anything quickly, unfortunately I know almost none of these commands, so it's always a fight. It uses ksh with vi keys too, which is OK when you get used to it, old school. Only trouble is it's quite hard to find anything to use them for, the desktop versions usually become hugely powerful, really expensive terminal emulators. If your using your own software with DB2 they're generally pretty hefty workhorses, especially the regattas, but then you need to learn to drive a HMC, it's all very enterprise.
I kind of want to try Fedora again now, I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux a lot at work, and find it all to be very correct, very solid. I use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server a lot too, and it's not nice, everything just seems to be a hacky patch, like bashing Linux with a rock until it does what they want it to. There's the odd Debian machine too, and they're very reliable when you're not trying to hack nonfree stuff onto them.
Yet more OSs, there's a lot of AIX, which has a rather nifty set of built in commands to query or set anything quickly, unfortunately I know almost none of these commands, so it's always a fight. It uses ksh with vi keys too, which is OK when you get used to it, old school. Only trouble is it's quite hard to find anything to use them for, the desktop versions usually become hugely powerful, really expensive terminal emulators. If your using your own software with DB2 they're generally pretty hefty workhorses, especially the regattas, but then you need to learn to drive a HMC, it's all very enterprise.
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did you get it sorted?
congratulations... have you even read the thread?
Yeah - my hangover cleared up nicely. Don't know about OP's problems though
