I find both the Tree view and the Places view useful. Changing from one view to the other is not fast because one have to go into the appearance menu. It's even slower with Oneiric because this menu can now be far away.
(Before Unity, I always had the tree view on and I used my bookmarks directly...
Any idea why I cannot install from the Ubuntu Software Center? I'm utilizing my wi-fi but I get "Failed to download package files" check your Internet settings
It does not work for me. I think Ubuntu 11.10 doesnot have any functionality for automatically adjusting screen brightness when switching between AC and battery.
@JorgeCastro: Currently the routers and load balancers are Ubuntu server. The routers are slotted to be replaced with Cisco hardware. On the whole though most stuff will move to CentOS. We want to consolidate it so it easier to manage, and Dell management stuff goes into CentOS easier
I am not able to boot Ubuntu 10.11 due to a Radeon card driver problem I have read nearly everything on the web now.
My idea is to get into Ubuntu at least and then download the latest driver.
I have read to try
sudo apt-get remove radeon-*
but when I enter it I am warned that its harmful.
Can s...
Also a larger picture it seems like Server is the secondary consideration and gets things maybe more suited for desktop -- that is a feeling though, would need more thought to articulate it well.
That being said our experience with Ubuntu server hasn't been negative persay, but for the most part we need to pick a distribution to make management more uniform
@Oli: I think this is all you get out SATA II. Disk benchmarks are tricky, depends on random/sequential tests, block size, read/write mixture. Then there is also latency as part of the bechmark results
I'm attempting to get an Ubuntu MinimalCD Install working without much luck..
Working from the guide posted here I can get the CD to boot and I select the Command-Line Installer option. After selecting my Language and Keyboard settings the installer fails on Configure the network with DHCP with...
plus, I think it'd be cool to use the spot utilities to be like "If the spot instance is less than 50 cents, yes, up to a maximum of 10, otherwise, keep me at 5 instances"
and then EBS all the partial work units so you don't really lose compute time if you blow it away
and then (this is the cool part)
when doing this also probe HPs cloud and Rackspace for the prices of instances
Bounty offered: How to configure Grub to show only splash-screen and error messages during boot and shutd... http://askubuntu.com/questions/79500/how-to-configure-grub-to-show-only-splash-screen-and-error-messages-during-boot #boot