Comments on: Yet another Jaunty beta screenshot

By: Accepting things as they are « Motho ke motho ka botho

Accepting things as they are « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:57 +0000

[...] yes, when I install a full Ubuntu suite, like I did a few weeks ago, I set the machine to login automatically. But it wasn’t in an effort to improve the boot [...]

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:46:22 +0000

I’ve been running KDE 4.2 from the PPA repository on Intrepid. I heartily recommend it. You’ll like it in 9.04. It’s ready for nontechnical users who aren’t used to Windows. Ones who are, 4.3 should be more comprehensible to them. (IME, KDE4 so far just confuses Windows XP users even as they think it’s really pretty.)

By: Links 29/03/2009: GNU/Linux at DreamWorks, Bubba | Boycott Novell

Links 29/03/2009: GNU/Linux at DreamWorks, Bubba | Boycott Novell — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:22:36 +0000

[...] Yet another Jaunty beta screenshot [...]

By: Yet another Jaunty (Kubuntu) beta screenshot « Motho ke motho ka botho

Yet another Jaunty (Kubuntu) beta screenshot « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:38:07 +0000

[...] reiterate the same points I made with the Gnome Ubuntu version: It sets up easily, with no hardware difficulties on a 1Ghz Pentium III with a few [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:16:08 +0000

I seem to remember a bar of “things” that loaded after the login. That’s what I was referring to when I said the cursor appears and the startup sound plays before the desktop is ready.

Of course it could just be that I am so unfamiliar with Gnome as to not know what I am talking about. I vote for the latter.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:10:38 +0000

Whoops, thanks for mentioning that. I hadn’t noticed. I wouldn’t want to lose my .deb for Chimera, the xaw-based browser.

By: James

James — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:20:04 +0000

X.org (and X11 before it) have shown the cursor before the window manager/desktop environment was loaded for as long as I can remember, which is about nine years.

Not that it matters much for me. I’ve got my system to automatically log my account in, then instantly lock the screen as everything loads in the background. It’s very nice to be able just type in a password and have the illusion that Gnome loaded instantly.

By: thealphanerd

thealphanerd — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:12:14 +0000

And oh, Filefront is closing, better download those files quick.

By: moo

moo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:59:07 +0000

Thank you, you rule…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:20:38 +0000

Sorry. I am having a image-hosting-service duel to the death. Results to follow.