Shoutbox

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Originally posted by ICQ
ok, now you've done that, , is this Comment from Canonical or from Billy Gates impersonating Canonical .. if i remember Redhat made some statement similiar to that a few years ago, but IMO even if Canonical Made tht statement, wouldnt suprise me since he's using a Windows Like installer in Ubuntu

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Honestly, the statement is taken out of context a bit, and was made during the beginnings of the dell Linux kerfuffle. I think what he was trying to say was a disclaimer to stop the birth of millions of n00bs, especially the ones that will give up after five minutes of wondering where the "start menu" is.

The link is an interview by Andreas Proschofsky while Mark was bouncing around Europe, so it doesn't strike me as being a fake.

I don't think he'd deny that Ubuntu makes a lot more sense than Windows, say, but it's getting through the years of conditioning that makes it hard to convince people to switch.

Shipped/Cancelled requests

    * 10 CDs requested on 2006-08-23. 10 CDs were approved and sent to the shipping company on 2006-08-29. Please note requests usually take from 4 to 6 weeks to deliver, depending on the country of shipping.
    * 3 CDs requested on 2007-04-20. 3 CDs were approved and sent to the shipping company on 2007-04-23. Please note requests usually take from 4 to 6 weeks to deliver, depending on the country of shipping.

this is what i hate,  i know these cd's are free, but are/will people actually use these cd's? . i'd like to see Canonical stop this " shipit free program '

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Originally posted by ICQ
this is what i hate,  i know these cd's are free, but are/will people actually use these cd's? . i'd like to see Canonical stop this " shipit free program '

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They do state the requested CD function is better suited to CD give-aways for college/university students etc, I for one could see a PC magazine requesting XXXX CD's for giving away with their monthly mag along with some other software and guides etc inside, infact i'd actually buy it if there were

Ordered a single CD a few days ago

3 Cds (the x86 and x64 pack). I want to try 64 bit again, but I'd also like a 32 bit version as this is the only pc that's capable of 64 bit in the house

Thanks.

I installed it but broke it trying to replace the graphics handler with something else and installing XGL or whatever it's called (I blame old tutorials)

I'll probably try again in summer or when there's some X1600 support

w00tage  CD's arrived today with stickers

yay!

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Originally posted by aNILEator


I installed it but broke it trying to replace the graphics handler with something else and installing XGL or whatever it's called (I blame old tutorials)

I'll probably try again in summer or when there's some X1600 support

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Forget about using beryl btw. Unless you want to use an old suckish version of it.

Compiz is quite nice though.
If you follow the tutorial that is linked to at wiki.beryl-..... to cchtml.com, then it covers it all.