White Cuban Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 first off, im abit scared of wiping it, dunno :/, if you guys think its safe, what distro would you reccommend ? i would love something with huge support, but ubuntu sounds Quite heavy. please help me here. thank you. i want it to be a speedyBeast. and ill use it for many uses, though not anything serverish related. just Web, mail. and stuff(Lots of it, LOTS OF IT!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 23, 2008 Well, I found this page which shows that most things will work fine. Exception may or may not be the camera which is unlikely. The fingerprint reader, which would not work (at least with *buntu 6.10 two years ago). And the wireless has a slight chance of not being natively supported, depending on the chipset installed at the time of manufacture. It seems that most units will use a natively supported ipw3945, while a smaller number use a Broadcom set that needs ndiswrapper to work. But both chipsets have a working solution. How much RAM do you have? You might want to use a lighter desktop, like XFCE over a heavier GNOME session. If that is still heavier than you like, there are many other options (fluxbox, icewm, enlightenment, etc). Maybe try Xubuntu for starters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Xubuntu is a good alternative if you like Ubuntu but you are looking for a lighter impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_was_here Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 CrunchBang Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cuban Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 talking from my ubuntu, right now. awesome, though the font's suck, on web, any tips? btw, any General tips? how should i start? im in 8.04, ill upgrade 8.10 overnight. though. what should i do :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 23, 2008 Fonts suck on websites? Could it be that some of these sites are specifying MS TrueType fonts, and that you don't have them installed on your Linux box? sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts If you have a specific site as an example, it would benefit you to look and see how that site is calling for a font. Your Windows box may be picking the first font specified, but if that font doesn't exist on your Linux box, then the second or so fallback font may be the one that is used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cuban Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 it says that package was there, but has something wrong or w/e Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Installing Microsoft Truetype fonts on Ubuntu You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. This is done by default in Feisty. After you do that, use the following command from the command line: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory. After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command: sudo fc-cache -fv Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cuban Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 thats just what he said.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GatorV Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Well maybe he forgot activating the Universe Repositiorie, there is where msttcorefonts is located. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 And have you done it all? You have to enable ?Universe? repositories like it is explained, then press "Edit>Reload Package Information" if you use synaptic. Then after (if you use synaptic) search for it and install it. Here's what happens when I install it on my syste user@deb:~$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: msttcorefonts (...) These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross- platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format. --19:56:32-- http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe => `./andale32.exe' Resolving surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net... 130.59.138.20 Connecting to surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net|130.59.138.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=surfnet.dl .sourceforge.net [following] --19:56:34-- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=surfne t.dl.sourceforge.net => `./andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net' (...) sub> So, unless your system isspecial, the method should work for it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cuban Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 oh it asks me, didn't notice, thanks. though its stuck in 0% :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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