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What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is an operating system. If you're here, you probably knew that. What you might not know is that Ubuntu has tens of millions of users on the desktop, and the majority of cloud servers are running Ubuntu*. Ubuntu is also making a play for mobile: there are already Ubuntu-based tablets available, and phones will be shipping sometime in 2014. If you live in China, you can go to physical Ubuntu stores and kiosks and buy devices supporting Ubuntu. If you live elsewhere, you can buy Ubuntu devices online from major vendors like Dell and smaller vendors like System76. While Ubuntu is an open community project, the trademark is not: if you see a hardware vendor saying a device supports Ubuntu, that means they are paying Canonical to certify the machines. How to install? You can, of course, just download and run Ubuntu on any old machine. The default image can run on DVD or USB key and serves as both an installation media and a bootable live environment (handy for recovery, even of Windows systems). If you are planning on dual booting, the general advice is to install Ubuntu after Windows, as the Windows boot loader can be rather selfish about hiding other operating systems. If you are dual booting Mac OSX, you will need to jump through even more hoops. What are these other -buntus? The Ubuntu project is actually a class of operating systems all sharing the same software archive and core system components. Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, and all the others are literally the same operating system with a different set of default packages installed. If you aren't happy with your desktop environment, you could install eg lubuntu-desktop onto a stock Ubuntu system and switch which one you use at the login screen. As of this writing, there are the following official flavors:
Unfortunately, this is wrong. Linux Mint used to be more or less Ubuntu with a different default install and the addition of the Mate and Cinnamon desktops. These days, however, Mint has decided to go off the deep end and start deliberately breaking things. As a much healthier alternative, I will point to the Ubuntu Mate project, who will in all likelihood become an official flavor just like the above. Both Mate and Cinnamon will be available out of the box on 14.10, at which point there will be no reason at all to use Mint. I've installed. What will I first notice? This is a pretty good interactive demo of what a default install looks like. Ubuntu's default desktop is different. In general the interface is designed to minimize "stuff" that's not the application content like window borders, panels, and so on. Maximized windows have their controls moved into the top panel, for instance, along with a global menu. The scroll bars are similarly very thin, with a drag tool that comes into view when you mouse near them. On my old netbook Ubuntu/Firefox was showing literally twice the web page content as the default Windows/IE. There is also a well thought-out series of indicator menus in the upper right. They start monochrome, and light up when something wants your attention. They're designed to be easy to ignore if you're working on something important. Unlike proprietary OSes, we are free to modify the majority of applications our users use to take advantage - music players will put controls in the audio menu, IM clients in the messaging menu, and so on. This contrasts with the Windows experience where every application puts it's own little icon in the system tray (so many, in fact, that Windows now autohides most of them). If you install such a Windows app with Wine, however, its indicator will be right next to the rest. Use the Software Center This is how you get software on Ubuntu. It's on the default launcher. There is a lot of first party software in Ubuntu - almost every open source project has been packaged and placed into the distribution. Software Center also acts as an app store, and many proprietary things are available there as well. Make sure you install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package by clicking this link. If you ticked the special box at install time you should already have it. This includes useful stuff like mp3 codecs that we can't for legal reasons bundle by default. Blame the US patent system. To install just flash, click this magical link inside Ubuntu. Very occasionally, you may want a third party piece of software that is either not available on Ubuntu or more up to date than is available on Ubuntu. For instance, to install beta versions of Wine you will need to click 3 buttons in the options menu. In general you should not expect to compile things from source, download binary files by hand, or other archaic nonsense. Technical Support: I highly recommend AskUbuntu.com, the Ubuntu Stack Exchange site. This is generally a way better place than traditional forums, mailing lists, and so on for asking questions. Especially highly complicated and interesting questions. You can even log in with your facebook account if you like. You can also try this thread, of course. Version numbers? Major versions use a Year.Month scheme and get an alphabetical adjective animal code name. LTS, or "Long Term Support" releases come out every 2 years and are supported for 5. LTS point releases (eg 14.04.1) come out intermittently and consist of updated images, mostly to support newer hardware. If you let update manager run you already have the latest point release. Between LTS releases, there are 3 major non-LTS releases, one every 6 months. You should probably be using the LTS releases. The interim releases are supported for only 9 months, and you are expected to migrate from one to the next within 3 months of them becoming available. Upgrading from older Ubuntus: You can choose from:
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Megaman posted:Care to explain this nonsense? Mint is used on the desktop more than Ubuntu from what I know. As far as popularity, Wikipedia statistics show as of this week 7.6 M hits from Mint and 994 M hits from Ubuntu. That makes Ubuntu approximately 130 times more popular, provided you think the Wikipedia-browsing habits of Ubuntu and Mint users are roughly comparable. Personally, I blame distrowatch for this weird misconception. Apologies if I come off as rude, I really don't mean to sound pissy I've just been dealing with tons of support emails from Mint users who think that my packages are broken and it's 100% Mint's fault. I don't even claim to support Mint, but they keep hearing that it's basically just Ubuntu.
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Jul 27, 2014 05:39
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The Merkinman posted:Look at me, I'm a designer for Canonical! *copy/pastes Apple icons because Apple*
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Aug 4, 2014 15:10
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The Merkinman posted:sudo apt-get install unity8
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Aug 5, 2014 20:13
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Helpimscared posted:Does unity still suck and spy on you via amazon?
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Aug 6, 2014 18:05
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I am not a book posted:Wait are you all really suggesting that since the icons are too similar to other instantly-recognizable icons, users should switch to different icons that look less like what the entire world expects to be the icon for a web browser?
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Aug 11, 2014 05:21
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): you should be using the "browser" icon instead of the chrome icon.
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I am not a book posted:Oh for sure Numix looks really nice, not my particular cup of tea but I can appreciate the work that's gone into it because it really shows. There are better metaphors for a browser icon than trying to suggest "Safari" in a browser that isn't even named that.
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Aug 12, 2014 07:13
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Stanley Pain posted:What the gently caress are you smoking? Copying an icon because 10% of people will recognize it doesn't make sense, especially since a large chunk of those 10% would recognize a more standard icon as well. quote:Ubuntu being the next Android I don't think Ubuntu will grow particularly quickly in this regard, but it's certainly not doing an Apple walled-garden strategy.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:27
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Stanley Pain posted:Units sold/shipped is a bloody dubious metric to use at best. Subscriber + Market Share numbers paint a different picture. In the US it's about 50/50 Android/iOS and in the rest of the world it's 35/65 give or take ~5%. I would also suggest that using straight up market share is not correct, as it weights by the price of the item and Apple products are several times more expensive than Android products. Apple users should not count three times as much  That said, if people use iDevices 3 times longer before replacing them then units sold will underestimate them in a similarly bad way. Regardless, this is a bit of a silly thing to be arguing about. There are plenty of good reasons not to ape the safari icon.
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Aug 12, 2014 19:37
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Surprise T Rex posted:I wish I'd known about Mint basically being terrible before now. I'd always thought it was basically an almost-identical alternative to Ubuntu.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:44
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Applebees posted:Those are the packages that are currently published in the PPA, so that wine1.7-amd64_1.7.17-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb is for raring. Applebees posted:Is there a place that archives the debs from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa? Specifically, I am looking for wine 1.7.17 for trusty. I have them automatically rsync'd to here: http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/binary/ Sometimes the server runs out of disk space and it takes me a while to realize it and it'll miss a few versions though.
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Aug 16, 2014 02:46
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deimos posted:Also throwback to the dumb icon talk, they're technically stealing webkit's icon, not safari's.
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Aug 16, 2014 02:47
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Prince John posted:Is there a kind soul in this thread that is able to compile a version of wine 1.3.34 or earlier so it will run on a 64 bit 14.04 install please? Looking at the bug though a much more recent workaround patch was posted: https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47950&action=diff Try applying that to a modern wine (the patch was made for wine 1.7.15) and you'll have much better luck compiling from source.
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Aug 16, 2014 02:53
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Prince John posted:Hey Shadowhawk, thanks for the help. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967 The source of the problem was vmware - when you suspend a virtual machine, some strange things can happen to the system time unless you enable a certain option to keep it in sync. I reset the system clock on the VM and rebuilt the package, and all appears to be normal. Closing bug.
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I've been getting occasional nagging-sounding email asking me to keep putting out new Wine betas for 12.04. I'd rather not since it's old and extra work, but I'd really like to know what sort of use case desktop users might have for beta Wine releases but not the latest LTS.
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Aug 17, 2014 22:34
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evol262 posted:As someone who still has to backport fixes to RHEL5 sometimes, welcome to long-term support.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:25
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syntaxfunction posted:The first is that you can't drag and drop things from the launcher to the desktop (Or anywhere else). I checked online and it's an acknowledged bug. It just seems bizarre to me you'd ship something where drag and drop doesn't work. It should be made to work, don't get me wrong, but it's actually a pretty uncommon use case.
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Sep 21, 2014 07:51
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Xenomorph posted:How can you tell when a package will be updated? edit: Going a step further, depending on your scale, you could also make a launchpad team and have that team own the PPA (or several PPAs, like a -staging and -production). Then make yourself (or whoever works with/replaces you) members of that team. For 250 dollars a year you can become a paid launchpad account which will give you the right to make said PPA private, but that's probably unnecessary. ShadowHawk fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 00:35
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ShadowHawk posted:One solution you can do is make a launchpad account and setup your own PPA, then just use the launchpad interface to copy the packages you want in there. That way it'll never disappear (or get updated) due to someone else, and you can also merge in whatever other third party package you want. Forget all this, it was fixed in Ubuntu yesterday: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pacemaker/+bug/1353473
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Oct 2, 2014 00:44
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ghostofbox posted:I tried out 14.10 for a while, started from a clean install. General answer is yes. Type "privacy" into the dash, click the "Security and Privacy", click the tab for search, and turn off "Online search results".
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Nov 4, 2014 22:29
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Yvershek posted:Since 12.10, I'm unable to connect to anything through my network card. I've looked around before and it seems like the network card isn't detected. Everything works perfectly if I boot and try the release without installing. Unfortunately, once it's installed it stops working. I never had any problems with 12.04 or earlier, so I'm wondering what the cause is.
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Dec 2, 2014 05:48
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Grumpwagon posted:Any idea when the Ubuntu Wine Team PPA will be updated? It appears to be stuck on 1.7.38 from March 12th (newest is 1.7.43).
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May 27, 2015 13:36
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Grumpwagon posted:Not to nag, but it has now been 3 months since an update. Is there something I can do to facilitate this process? I know I could just build it from source, but I appreciate it automatically updating. If you think it would be better to just build it, I will though.
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Jun 14, 2015 08:21
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 Those updates you are forcefully reverting are the support you say you want
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Aquila posted:I've not force reverting anything, I'm installing the OS as distributed on the ISO and then testing what happens with and without letting it pull packages during and after install. Support is delivered via package updates. If you prevent updates you are effectively turning down support.
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