Got Linux to boot! 1533

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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:22:39 -0700,

So the root problem was Apple's difficulty in handling the .iso burning? :)

One thing I found when I was using Knoppix at a clients, for an extensive time, ( a couple of weeks) it got *faster* as it cached stuff, the machines had 512M of ram, and Knoppix really moves with that much ram.

After a while, Knoppix, was faster, than running XP from the harddrive

Can't recall for sure, but I *think* that Warty (the released version) hides all that, with a note at the bottom of the screen to press esc if you want all the details during the boot. Hoary is a prerelease, and I suspect that most of the folks using it, will be watching the boot, for problems. :)

It's a configurable option in FF IIRC. Don't know if it's default on in Hoary.

if you dbl click on the calendar that pops up when you click on the clock display, you get Evolution's calendar window, with the day you clicked on. Nice integration :)

Timezones, the LiveCD will grab the time from the hw clock, and (IIRC) update it's own time, from the net if pos, but you have to select your time zone for the clock displayed on the GNOME menubar to be correct. The LiveCD has no way to tell where you are.

There are, I (for example) use an "Aqua" like skin, the name of which, escapes me at the moment. I don't care for Ubuntu's default skin. But like. Don't know what the LiveCD comes with for themes.

matter of preferance I suppose. Of course, you can always us a different windowmanager, with different button configs, if you chose. But I prefer it this way personally.

No, you use the pbuttword you log in with, Ubuntu uses sudo for administration, there is no root pbuttword set by default, root can't actually log in, on the default config. You'd have to sudo a shell or the like to become root.

yeah, I find GNOME's help system to be little help :) It's rather resource hungry, and doesn't carry much useful info. Although it does bring in the man pages, and that's nice.

Works fine here, might be a PPC issue, don't know. But if you were expecting an icon to pop up, that may be turned off. Go to

Yes, including adding things like a dictionary lookup, a file lookup tool, a small command line util, address book search, etc. Plus any app on the machine. Also, you can add a connect to server applet, which will allow you to connect via ftp, sftp, smb, nfs, etc, treats them all as part of the filesystem, so you can easily drag and drop files from a remote ftp server, to an smb share on another machine. Etc.

and there are a whole heck of a lot of them.

like so many other things, it's configurable.

LiveCDs rock.

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