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Originally posted by: VinDSL
I dunno - will Synaptics install all my TTF fonts?!?!?
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If they are in the repos, then yes Synaptic will easily take care of this. If you are talking about Microsoft TTF, then all you have to do is open Add/Remove Applications, search for restricted extras and install the meta package. In one shot, Ubuntu will install Flash, Sun Java, A ton of codecs, (Except protected DVD playback and Windows codecs like WMA, WMV which will require you to add the medibuntu repos which is also easily done from either the terminal or the gui.) and most of the juicy bits Ubuntu is missing out of the box.

 
Originally posted by: VinDSL
Originally posted by: compman25
Why not just use synaptic and let ubuntu install them and do all the work?
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I dunno - will Synaptics install all my TTF fonts?!?!?

I've got quite a collection!

My Firefox install(s) will display every font on this page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Seems simpler just to copy n' paste them to my Linux '.fonts' folder...

What am I missing?
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Since you said the MS fonts that was all I thought you were talking about, and yes, synaptic will install the MS fonts automatically.
 
Originally posted by: soonerproud
Originally posted by: VinDSL
I dunno - will Synaptics install all my TTF fonts?!?!?
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If they are in the repos, then yes Synaptic will easily take care of this. If you are talking about Microsoft TTF, then all you have to do is open Add/Remove Applications, search for restricted extras and install the meta package. In one shot, Ubuntu will install Flash, Sun Java, A ton of codecs, (Except protected DVD playback and Windows codecs like WMA, WMV which will require you to add the medibuntu repos which is also easily done from either the terminal or the gui.) and most of the juicy bits Ubuntu is missing out of the box.
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And that's what the deal is with Mint, asked earlier. It's just Ubuntu with all the juicy bits installed, some extra GUI menus, the gnome slab menu and (IMO) a nicer looking color scheme.
 
Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
And that's what the deal is with Mint, asked earlier. It's just Ubuntu with all the juicy bits installed, some extra GUI menus, the gnome slab menu and (IMO) a nicer looking color scheme.
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Yeah, I might try Linux Mint next.

There's a reason(s) that it's #3 in hits over on DistroWatch!

I did some more reading on Mint, and I guess they have a rating system in place for the repos - tells you which ones are tested and 'safe' to install, e.g. won't break anything - ones that haven't been tested, but are thought to be safe - ones that haven't been tested and are thought not to be safe - and ones that have been tested and are not safe. And, so forth, and so on...

That, alone, might be reason enough to run Mint vs Ubuntu! 🙂
 
That, alone, might be reason enough to run Mint vs Ubuntu!
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I just don't trust 3rd party repos at all, it's the only way to be sure. The only non-official repos I have configured are snapshot.debian.net and debian-multimedia.org and both of them are run by Debian developers.
 
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
VinDSL, you can resize partitions (FAT32, NTFS, even ones with fakeRAID) within SUSE installer
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~Cool

On my lappy, I stuck a new 320 GB Hitachi Travelstar in it and installed various flavors of Linux using Live CDs. Actually, I was goofing around, waiting for my Thermaltake BlacX Docking Station to arrive so I could D2D Vista - and I didn't pay a lot of attention to the installers. I just clicked through the screens using the default settings and ended up with a mess of kernels and GRUB choices - all of which worked, sans the WiFi.

When the docking station arrived, I formatted the Travelstar using Windows (which took forever) and mirrored Vista onto it (from my old HD) using Clonezilla. A few days later, I shrunk the Windows partition by half using the native partitioner in Vista and installed openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4 on the same drive.

Next, I installed openSUSE 11.1 Gnome on one of my W2K Pro machines - the one I'm typing on right now. I used SystemRescueCD to shrink the Windows partition on it, not the SUSE installer.

Dittos for installing Ubu on my XP machine - used SystemRescueCD to shrink the Windows partition on that machine too.

I simply haven't tried resizing a partition using the installer in SUSE, Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. SystemRescueCD is a Live CD that's built with Gentoo, Reiser4, and Btrfs 0.16, but it's a mash-up, so that doesn't count!

Maybe I'll try that next time... 😀
 
Here's a weird one for you...

I was going to download Windows 7 beta today, but got distracted and installed openSUSE 11.1 Gnome x64 on my lappy instead. Didn't like Gnome on the lappy!

The weird thing is, I love openSUSE Gnome on my desktop, but I don't like it on my lappy - and I love openSUSE KDE 4 on my lappy, but don't care for it on my desktop.

LoL! It's NOT like I'm fickle or anything... really!

I installed openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4 x64 on my lappy, and I'm finally downloading Windows 7 beta, 12 hours later.

In the middle of all this, I went to the movies and watched "The Wrestler" - Mickey Rourke's new movie - so I'm surprised I got anything done today!

Anyway, my WiFi and Sound worked great with Gnome without having to mess around, just like KDE 4!
 
Anyway, my WiFi and Sound worked great with Gnome without having to mess around, just like KDE 4!
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That's because KDE and Gnome don't really affect whether your hardware works or not. The kernel has most drivers and Xorg has the video driver, all the applications layered on top just look to see if the appropriate device exists.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
That's because KDE and Gnome don't really affect whether your hardware works or not.
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Heh!

Well, I would tend to agree with that, with qualification.

Sure, when I got 3D working on my lappy's ATI chipset, it worked in both KDE and Gnome, but...

I'm running KDE and Gnome openSUSE on the same machine/same drive, and you would be surprised how differently they handle the graphic hardware (sometimes). Compiz Fusion comes to mind. It works fine on Gnome, but it locks up (the hardware) on KDE 4.1 more often than not. Then, again, Compiz Fusion is a mess, sooo...

Speaking of KDE, I just installed KDE 4.2 and all I can say is "WoW! They fixed it!"

LoL!

Now it's Gnome's turn to play catchup... 😀
 
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