J.O. Aho <user@example.net> did eloquently scribble: > Yellow Cat wrote: >> Ubuntu sucks. >> Yes, it does. It is slow, buggy and not functional. >> At least version 7.04, running on a 2-years-old Acer laptop >> Get Xubuntu instead. >> >> >> Although Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, it is much lighter on system >> requirements and far more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE. >> The reason for that is that Xubuntu uses the Xfce Desktop environment, > If you uninstall xfce and install ctwm, you get even less CPU demanding > desktop that is less bloated. Personally, I'd go with blackbox. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In article <1192578546.849902.220010@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com>, Yellow Cat wrote: > Although Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, it is much lighter on system > requirements and far more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE. I'm running Xubuntu 7.04 on a several-years-old Compaq notebook with 1GHz Pentium-II CPU and 256MB memory. It runs like a champ. Ubuntu or Kubuntu run well on more recent hardware, but Xubuntu is definitely the ticket for making good use of older hardware. On the other hand, I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper" on a 1.3GHz AMD Athlon destop system and that works quite well. It does have 1.5GB of memory and a reasonably fast 80GB hard drive, though. -- Roger Blake (Subtract 10s for email.)

1001 Webs wrote: >> I couldn't get Xfburn to work. >> Update: >> (graveman:6536): GLib-CRITICAL **: unquote_string_inplace: assertion >> `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed > > I think I know what's happening. > > In graveman I get: > "Communication error with cdrecord > Check that you have access to cdrecord 2.0" > > And Synaptic Package Manager says that cdrecord installed is: > "This is a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of > cdrecord. > It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility purposes. > Please use wodim instead of cdrecord." > > Anyone knows how to fix this? Had a similar problem with cdrecord, wodim and xcdroast. Was solved with an update of xcdroast. -- Pete LaGrange loyalty above all, save honor <http://68.197.144.194:7776/index.html>

* 1001 Webs wrote in alt.os.linux: > On Oct 19, 1:15 pm, spi...@freenet.co.uk wrote: >> J.O. Aho <u...@example.net> did eloquently scribble: >> >> > Yellow Cat wrote: >> >> Ubuntu sucks. >> >> Yes, it does. It is slow, buggy and not functional. >> >> At least version 7.04, running on a 2-years-old Acer laptop >> >> Get Xubuntu instead. >> >> >> Although Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, it is much lighter on system >> >> requirements and far more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE. >> >> The reason for that is that Xubuntu uses the Xfce Desktop >> >> environment, >> > If you uninstall xfce and install ctwm, you get even less CPU >> > demanding desktop that is less bloated. >> >> Personally, I'd go with blackbox. >> -- >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> ________ >> | spi...@freenet.co.uk | >> | | >> |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that >> |doesn't | >> | in | suck is probably the day they start >> | making | >> | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge >> | | >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------- > > That one looks much nicer. > > But Latest release: 0.70.1 > Published on Nov 3rd, 2005 > http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ > > Well, if it ain't broke why fix it? > > Then go with Fluxbox http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ or Openbox http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page -- David

In article <4720f09b$0$24395$5fc3050@news.tiscali.nl>, xubunt6 <xubunt6@none-mail.nl> wrote: >> In graveman I get: >> "Communication error with cdrecord >> Check that you have access to cdrecord 2.0" >> >> And Synaptic Package Manager says that cdrecord installed is: >> "This is a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of >> cdrecord. >> It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility purposes. >> Please use wodim instead of cdrecord." >> >> Anyone knows how to fix this? >> > >Yes, as it says: > >use = install wodim. (an commandline cd write tool too?) > >cdrecord is followed up by wodim, as it looks. I use xu 606, my dapper >repository still shows cdrecord, not wodim. This is not true: wodim is a dead fork from cdrecord. It first appeared in September 2006, published some releases to create the impresssion of an active development and finally died on May 5th 2007. wodim never did offer any feature not found in cdrecord for a long time and wodim is full of bugs compared to cdrecord. Ubuntu gives you the ability to install the real cdrecord, it is your choice. http://cdrecord.berlios.de/ -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

In article <1193782514.129957.95160@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>, 1001 Webs <1001webs@gmail.com> wrote: >I then tried to download from: >ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ >and it does not work. > >"The connection has timed out >The server at ftp.berlios.de is taking too long to respond." > >Dead end? No, you seem to have a defective firewall. The server works just fine. If you cannot get your sysadmin to fix your firewall, try to run ftp in passive mode..... -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily