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the elephant · Off Topic / General Chat

To the #! Jury:

While I am not certain that this is the proper location to post something like this, nor am I sure that this has not been posted repeatedly in the past, please find attached below my first attempt to become part of the #! family. (Aww... so sweet...)

the (insert clever internym here) elephant

So if it is a massively reposted cartoon, shoot me. ;-)

If not, enjoy reliving the Linux Experience vicariously through my bloodshot eyes... HAHAHA!!!

the elephant · Help & Support (Stable)

Thanks, folks! I will try both. However, I was wondering whether this is an issue with this machine? (Acer ZG5)

#! is happily running (well, so far) on our Dell Mini 1012 and is coexisting with the Joli OS so far - none of the Joli-takes-over-grub-and-kills-your-drive issues I have read about...

More reading is in my future...

the elephant · Help & Support (Stable)

Okay, I got Statler up and running from a DVD last evening. Veeeeeeeeery cool. Sort of Voodoo Mysterioso, if you ask me. I like it.

I used the Openbox version, 32 bit.

It runs well (this is a subjective guess, of course as I know zero about this distro right now) on my Acer AspireOne AOA150 ZG5. I did not try the microphone, but that has never worked for me when I did the OSX OSx86 thing to it, nor under Mint 11 nor under Ubuntu 11.04. I will try all the sound in and out stuff tonight. Maybe Audacity if that is an option...

I tried to use the INSTALL GRAPHICAL VERSION (or whatever the menu says) and nothing happened at all. If I type on any keys at all save for Enter I get the lovely Death Beep that shatters the "wa" of all the other library patrons and throws the librarians into slobbering fits of angst-filled rage.

Did my DVD go boom?

Make another?

Or is this correct behavior for this model?

Also, I tried it on my Nokia Booklet 3G and - you guessed it - no GMA 500 Poulsbo support at all. Will there ever be any support for this chip, this much hated piece of Intel Stupidity that plagues so many netbook owners who wish to be free of Windows? Joli OS *just works* with this chip. All features are on and work very well. My Nokia is dog slow, so hardware acceleration is not just nifty but needed!

I promise to pore over the fora and read as much as I can, but my time on "teh interwebs" is severely limited for the next two months. So can anyone flings some information my way regarding this stuff?

By the way, the desktop info that acts like a pilot's head up display is very slick. Glad I am trialing this very different distro. Thanks to all who have helped put it together!

By the way, I am planning on trialing the Xfce4 version later this week. I have zero idea what I am doing or even what Xfce4 means, but I am having a lot of fun!

the elephant

the elephant · Introductions

Hey, I am a symphony orchestra musician by trade and a budding geek on my off time. I just got into the whole GNU/Linux world and was turned onto this distro this afternoon. I have just downloaded the ISO and have a wonky netbook to trial it on. If nobody ends up dead from this experience you will likely see a lot of me here, whining and crying due to my lack of Linux knowledge.

I am currently playing with Mint 11 and Ubuntu 11.04; very tame stuff, I know. I am adventurous by nature so I quickly decided that I needed to learn some things the easy way and some needs more of the old shock value. This distro looks to be to my liking in a big way, and I have a spare netbook to play with. So why not?

Please be kind to me and what will probably be a ceaseless stream of what many of you will consider to be very newbish questions and ideas that are ill informed.

I will try to be a good boy and learn as much as I can as quickly as I can.

By the way, the black site is uber slick looking to me; very attractive, indeed.

Here is to me not killing my computer and to learning tons of new stuff, to boot!

Cheers!

Wade

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#1 Re: Off Topic / General Chat » the cool random internet stuff thread 1.0 » 2011-08-18 00:21:04

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