Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

hcgtv · 2006-10-05 20:50:49

maniqui wrote:

I didn’t get the tip of using an ip out of the range…
My wi-fi network is actually configured this way:
Router IP: 10.0.0.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
My machine IP: 10.0.0.133

If 10.0.0.133 is served from a DHCP table, it could end up being different next week. Since DHCP leases end up expiring, another laptop in your house could grab your IP address.

If you create a static IP, let’s say 10.0.0.20, it will always be the same, no matter what. Then on your other machines, you could add your machine to the hosts file and gain access to it.

For WinXP: C:\Windows\systems32\drivers\etc\hosts

10.0.0.1 router.maniqui.com
10.0.0.20 ubuntu.maniqui.com

maniqui · 2006-10-05 21:23:45

hi hcgtv.

I always use static IP address.
I asked because i didnt understand why it had to be out of the range of the router, but now, I think I understand.

Going back to this migration… I have some “internal” dilemmas:

I want to share my Thunderbird profile among Ubuntu and WinXP. Right now, the profile is in an NTFS partition.
Now, I have three options:

move the profile to a “bridge partition” in FAT32 (readable/writeable from both systems).
keep it in the NTFS partition and use the ntfs-3g driver to read and write from Linux.
move it to a Ext3 partition and use the FS Driver to write on it from Windows

I hate to have all this options! :D
I can’t decide…

Another question: do you ever tried to run a WinXP image in a virtual machine on Ubuntu?

hcgtv · 2006-10-05 21:30:06

maniqui wrote:

move the profile to a “bridge partition” in FAT32 (readable/writeable from both systems).

This is the best option, it’s worked for me very well.

maniqui wrote:

Another question: do you ever tried to run a WinXP image in a virtual machine on Ubuntu?

No I haven’t but I’m leaning towards this for the future, beats having to dual boot.

maniqui · 2006-10-08 05:12:43

hi.

Anyone with Ubuntu and Firefox…
please, visit this site: http://www.heffernans.ie/ and please, tell me if you see the last option (“Contact”) of the main menu in a new line (= below “Home”). (Site is not mine, I just using it as an example of what is happening)

I have seen it in FF (Win) and it looks as spected (the “Contact” link at the end of the horizontal menu)

I dont know why my FF (Linux) is rendering it in a different way.
I have notice something similar in other site but I cant remember which one…

Of course, the text-size in Firefox is set to normal…

Thanks.

hcgtv · 2006-10-08 05:31:07

maniqui wrote:

Anyone with Ubuntu and Firefox…

Debian Etch, Gnome 2.14.3 (08/08/2006)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1)

Looks fine to me, exactly like it does in Windows. I’m using Bitstream fonts in Firefox on Linux, they seem to work rather well in rendering pages.

maniqui · 2006-10-08 15:46:22

Here:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060921 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.7

And now, I have installed Opera 9.02 and it has the same “problem” for me.
The font sizes seems to be fine for the site, but it just breaks in the main menu.

I have installed IEs4Linux and the site looks well there.

I cant figure out what could be happening…

Sencer · 2006-10-26 08:03:16

Maybe it’s worth a new topic, but there’s been some good opinions collected here, so I’ll just tack it on here for now:

Today is the scheduled release of the new Ubuntu Release: 6.10 Edgy Eft. :)

While a lot of the changes are under the hood, there’s also Firefox2, newer version of Gnome, a new Kernel and some other updated stuff. The better boot-up time is one of the things that look interesting me.

http://news.com.com/Ubuntu+update+is+Edgy+on+boot+speed/2100-1012_3-6129594.html?tag=nefd.top

I’ll probably wait a week or two before the upgrade, in case some odd things do turn out, but I am pretty sure I am going to do it.

Last edited by Sencer (2006-10-26 08:03:35)

maniqui · 2006-10-26 15:11:18

Suave!

I was about to reinstall Ubuntu 6.06 (I’m a bit obsesive and I couldn’t fix the “problem” I have with Firefox, see post above) but now, I will install and try this new release…

I thought that new releases of Ubuntu come out after 18 months… Don’t know why I thought that…

Well.. just more dispersion and yet, I haven’t started to learn how to set an LAMP environment and learn PHP.

hcgtv · 2006-10-26 15:20:00

maniqui wrote:

Well.. just more dispersion and yet, I haven’t started to learn how to set an LAMP environment and learn PHP.

Welcome to the world of Linux ;)

I’ll upgrade to Edgy Eft today, hopefully the mirrors won’t be too busy. I was already running a lot of the newer stuff when I was running Debian Sid on my workstation, let’s see what Ubuntu does with it.

Sencer · 2006-10-26 15:42:46

Ubuntu has a new release every 6 month, which you can upgrade to, but don’t have, too. Regular releases are supported (with updates, security etc.) for 18 Months, the LTS releases (like 6.06) are supported for 3 years. (Both times for the desktop version, the server versions have longer support times).
Once the support times end, you have to upgrade to a newer release (can’t make version jumps IIRC, so you’ll have to step through the intermediate versions – but maybe that will change in the future…?).

edit: btw, I am using the torrents to download the alternate-CD from which to upgrade (saves bw, when you have multiple installations to update).

Last edited by Sencer (2006-10-26 15:54:39)

maniqui · 2006-10-26 16:31:42

Thanks for the explanation, Sencer.

I’m downloading the desktop-CD using bittorrent, and the ETA is 9 hours approx…

I’m still planning my re-partitioning strategy.

When I partitioned my HDD, I followed this partition strategy, that is a bit Windows-user centered, but it leaves a partition for testing Linux.
So, I ended up with many NTFS partitions, a FAT32 partition and just a 4GB Ext3 partition to test linux, as you can see here.

Now, I want to make more room for Linux stuff. Even, I want to have a separate partition for /home, as I have read that is advisable to do so.

I’m still hesitating about the sizes for each partition, and I will have to do some risk manouvres with the partitions…

Sorry for this post, that is a bit offtopic, but this forum is like therapy for mi!

Shadowkahn · 2006-10-26 23:36:51

This is to Anark, I have been trying to get Ubuntu to work on a Sony Vaio PCV L640, and I’m having nothing but problems with the x-server failing. I too was only able to get ubuntu on the system by using 5.10. Any tips would be appreciated in this matter – I plan to dist-upgrade once I get the bugs out of ubuntu 5.10 that I am having with the x-server.

It is amazing how lost I feel when it comes to dipping my foot into linux with this computer.

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