@jrg I think the point was more SO should be everything non-OS and SU should be everything OS, but yes it was essentially that way as far as my interpretation
Bounty offered: Why is my background image always disappearing when I log in? http://askubuntu.com/questions/139959/why-is-my-background-image-always-disappearing-when-i-log-in?atw=1 #background
Roland is insisting that you cannot sell computers with Ubuntu pre-installed without paying some fee to Canonical.
As I understand it, the only issue is trademarks... if you insist on marketing your computers by using the Ubuntu trademark, you need to get Canonical's permission.
@ChanHoSuh That is my understanding. The more ethical concern part of the thing is that you shouldn't be touting 'Ubuntu Inside' without permission (it would be seen as endorsement). I don't see how for a small shop selling the bare metal and providing the service of installing Ubuntu is in any way in violation of any of those terms.
@GeorgeEdison You mean linespacing? If so, sometimes legal documents are double-spaced so that changes can be penned in and initialed without re-printing the whole document. Perhaps slightly outdated for the GPL (who uses printed GPLs?) but....
Even Google's first response for yahoo finance is actually yahoo finance. I would think that not pinning something like that in your engine would belie a weakness in the engine
I seem to remember google be sued sometime in the last to years for antics with searches for Google Chrome. It wasn't the actual results, but that they but a sponsored link to it (like the normal sponsored links displayed first) above the results.
When I use Firefox and search Google, I've had stuff asking me to try Google Chrome appear. I do find it annoying and kinda contrary to the image they've built up in the earlier years of the company.
Oh, well that might have something to do with it. I can agree with that approach since you haven't searched yet. If they were tainting search results that would be different, but saying you can't tout your product on your product page seems silly
I doubt it too, but I don't think Google does. Any company that doesn't fear losing their place on the top is liable to run into a nasty surprise or two on their way down.
@jokerdino he's saying he doesn't have dash to search in gnome-classic
@ChanHoSuh Valid point. Letting fear dictate your actions is another sure way for downfall in what I think was a visionary company though. If all you worry about is consequences, then there's no more vision
@jokerdino I agree, I think the OP for somereason thinks that gnome should automatically remap the keyboard shortcut when the alternative is changed, and want your help fixing this "bug"
I think the OP thinks what @adempewolff just said, and for some reason doing what he did with update-alternatives works in some other DE but not Gnome classic.
every time i read the question it starts to read a little more like a complaint (any time i hear "works in X not in Y" i start feeling that way), so i'm going to let that one go too
@ChanHoSuh you'ld have to touch on hybrid graphics, hibernate, hdmi audio with open drivers on AMD/ATI, works on windows, and works in some non-unity DE...maybe toss in a little processor utilization and GPU overheating. then somehow find a way to make it not a bug
It depends. Ubuntu is free software (beyond some redistributable binary blobs), but if you're using it for commercial purposes there are trademark restrictions.
The Legal Fine Print
Permission from us is necessary to use any of the Trademarks under any circumstances other than those specific...
@jokerdino hi!
I'm only on for a short time
Trying to deal with this issue of the trademark/selling/marketing confusion - causing me no end of stress.
@ChanHoSuh I like the idea, but I think -- for me -- linux was about "will run on anything". Ubuntu took this and ran with it making it easy. Then once it had a large component of market share did the Unity thing(crushing old computers). Still, I take your point.
@jokerdino it's rather confusing if you ask me - because why do we need to "consult" Canonical if all we are doing is installing Ubuntu on prebuilt computers (from like say Clevo or something) and charging for the computer and the service of setting it up?
If a small business owner is going to provide a service and be transparent, but can't afford to pay for some fandangle agreement - I think this is a case of suffocation of the small business owner.
Typically to protect your trademark, you have to be pretty aggressive about it... so I wonder why Google went with "Chromium" for their open source version name.
But you see, jokerdino, and I've said this before, nowadays Microsoft is like the grumpy, formerly villainous, old man living down the street from you. In the late 90s, Microsoft really was seen as the evil empire.
@jokerdino I've never used KDE, but edit your network connections and look for a place where you can change your IPv4 settings from "Automatic (DCHP)" to "Automatic (DCHP) addresses only" and then the "DNS Servers:" field should pop up
@aking1012 hehe, thanks. I'm kind of hopeless when it comes to chat. I had already entered text so the upload box was greyed out, didn't realize you couldn't upload an image with text already in the box...
I am behind a network firewall that doesn't let me ssh through the default port. Because of that, I can't push any bzr branches to my repository. I would like to know if it is possible to somehow proxy the ssh through port 80 so I can push the branches.
I heard that corkscrew lets you do that bu...
In China, it's incredible slow (almost all of the public relays are IP blocked), and I feel guilty using it for watching youtube videos, etc. when some people need to bandwidth for documenting human rights abuses etc.
I do think I might need to upgrade my current solution (classic socks5 ssh tunnel) soon, as it looks like some Chinese ISPs are starting to use deep packet filtering to scan for and throttle ssh tunnels.
Bounty offered: Is is possible to render ONLY Compiz with Unity3D using llvmpipe? http://askubuntu.com/questions/139167/is-is-possible-to-render-only-compiz-with-unity3d-using-llvmpipe?atw=1 #driver
I did not know that we are taking points off for grammar, spelling mistakes :) . When I do a edit, I do it just to better relay the question. I do most of my ask Ubuntu at work wile doing 50 other things, like in-house support, and phone support, so mistakes are bound to happen :) . Just thought that I put my 2 cents in :)
I've just pasted a link to the code of a Launchpad project to an answer, and I noticed it remained as plain text. It would be nice if Launchpad shortcuts could be linkified automatically to point to the project's URL.
E.g. when I write lp:qreator it is recognized as a Launchpad project and gets ...
@jokerdino Serverfault mods wouldn't migrate my post, so I just copy-pasted it to Super User... keeping my fingers crossed for some good answers. superuser.com/questions/429570/…
@ShyamK you shoudl watch Revolution OS - its a fairly dated movie but gives you a solid recourse of the history of the Linux Kernel / OS / FSF movement - vodpod.com/watch/46377-revolution-os-1hr-25-mins
@ShyamK because it's not a yes/no question, if you need an enterprise solution use red hat, if you don't use fedora or ubuntu based on your personal preferences
I've used Fedora and Ubuntu, and both have features I like. I generally lean towards Ubuntu as Fedora is a little more "cutting edge" in their release cycle which with my hardware has led to some annoying bugs and regressions
I would like to know the difference between these two Operating system. I know both are open source. But apart from it, what makes Ubuntu special and what makes Fedora special?
It will be really great if the answer mentions the disadvantage in each OS.
Thanks in advance.
@ChanHoSuh I noticed this last night and commented how I wished I could have a screencast of the sentient mouse "homing in on clickable targets and clicking on them, wreaking havoc"
Great answer: Is it legal to sell computers with Ubuntu installed http://askubuntu.com/questions/142611/is-it-legal-to-sell-computers-with-ubuntu-installed/142620?atw=1#142620 #installation
12.04 freezes up alot.. and twice I had my mouse pointer freeze up.. I am using a laptop and hence not using a mouse. Just the touch pad. Any ideas why? Why the mouse gets stuck? Why the desktop gets stuck? And why there is an update yet?
@ShyamK sorry, I can't really help you with that question. There are a million reasons why your mouse pointer freezes, ranging from the actual touchpad being buggy, your computer freezing because the CPU/memory/whatever is being used at 100%, to software freezing.
you can check your log files to see if there are any hints there
I've noticed the synaptics driver seems to have a lot of issues in Ubuntu.
I was using another driver which was more stable, but it didn't have all the features I wanted. Pretty happy now with the current version... but I will watch any further updates with suspicion.
Thanks. But I don't think the touchpad is buggy.. works just fine in WIndows... 100% usage freezes up the system.. hmm okay.. any idea what will be logged in the log file on such an occurence? Anything specific?
@jokerdino okay.. but I dint know any command to suspend the lap.. Never used a lap before.. :(
Check a package's dependencies / dependent packages. (This can be done in Synaptic by viewing the properties of a package):
apt-cache depend 'package-name'
apt-cache rdepend 'package-name'
Browse available packages
apt-cache pkgnames
apt-cache search '.*'
apt-cache show 'package-name'
Search...
@Achu don't flag for migration of Ubuntu questions to Ask Ubuntu, they are on-topic for Super User & rest assured, all flags will be declinedunless the OP asks for migration.
I read this question, which helped, but where is the line?
Just because a question is about an Apple product, doesn't mean it is off-topic (not at all actually) just because another (more specific) site exists for that kind of question.
Then again, a question that would be more at home on anothe...
Cannot connect via wireless to campus network but can connect via ethernet and can connect via wireless to router at home. <-- intermittent wireless problem Some websites won't load (eg. Hotmail), some will load without formatting (eg. Facebook) and some will load fine (eg. Ask Ubuntu). <--probably slow loading and not getting the formatting/js file before timeout Sites requiring a password (eg. Twitter / Facebook) will bring up an Untrusted connection warning. <-- added ssl makes the connection too slow and getting the credentials times out
i think there's too much opinion allowed in that one. i like the If I decided today to start earning a living doing software development for Linux, where would one begin? part, but the rest is too subjective
@aking1012 There used to be a nasty bug with broadcom chipsets connecting to WPA2 Enterprise networks, although it went away for me with a kernel update a year or two ago...
fair enough. it probably belongs on ubuntu forums as a discussion on where the demand is for apps in ubuntu app-store and how one gets started in that arena
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.4 on my HP 32-bit Pavilion, from time to time my cursor goes berserk. Completely beyond my control, it zaps all over my workspace, homing in on clickable targets and clicking on them, wreaking havoc, opening and closing and activating at random.
In addition to the p...
of course, just because they are hardware problems doesn't mean there can't be a software solution.... I just don't feel like remotely walking someone through testing and configuring Xorg.conf when they really should just buy a new mouse
It depends. Ubuntu is free software (beyond some redistributable binary blobs), but if you're using it for commercial purposes there are trademark restrictions.
The Legal Fine Print
Permission from us is necessary to use any of the Trademarks under any circumstances other than those specific...
It comes up in chat sometimes, so I figured I'ld post a question and answer on the thing.
I would like to know the difference between these two Operating system. I know both are open source. But apart from it, what makes Ubuntu special and what makes Fedora special?
It will be really great if the answer mentions the disadvantage in each OS.
Thanks in advance.
Check a package's dependencies / dependent packages. (This can be done in Synaptic by viewing the properties of a package):
apt-cache depend 'package-name'
apt-cache rdepend 'package-name'
Browse available packages
apt-cache pkgnames
apt-cache search '.*'
apt-cache show 'package-name'
Search...
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.4 on my HP 32-bit Pavilion, from time to time my cursor goes berserk. Completely beyond my control, it zaps all over my workspace, homing in on clickable targets and clicking on them, wreaking havoc, opening and closing and activating at random.
In addition to the p...
