Comments on: Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop i386 bootable USB image

By: imgx64

imgx64 — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:36:15 +0000

“[1] And launchers in general: kupfer, gnome-do, synapse, etc”

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:23:35 +0000

Tobias, nothing but a case of replying to the wrong comment! See below.

By: Tobias Mann

Tobias Mann — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:52:18 +0000

Sorry I don’t follow. I could benifit from more information.

By: hhh

hhh — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:26:39 +0000

I tried Unetbootin as well as dd and both bypassed the Live session and dumped me back into Grub. I’m on Debian squeeze and Ubuntu only has USB instructions for Ubuntu and Windows.

Looks like the torrent is going to take a day to download, I’ll be sure to seed it for that long when I’m done taking 11.04 for a spin.

Thanks for this, K.

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:16:13 +0000

@ imgx64

“You got it right the second time. Basically, Unity[1] is supposed to be a user friendly command-line interface. The typical user interaction should consist of the user pressing Super, then typing (an approximation of) what he wants to do (name of program, file, song, etc) followed by Enter[2]. No more hunting icons around with a mouse.”

like dmenu?

Thanks all, very thought provoking Web site

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:14:35 +0000

@ Tobias Mann

like dmenu?

Thanks all, very thought provoking Web site

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:16:57 +0000

I tried to dd the iso to a USB drive and it didn’t boot, so I guessed no.

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:24:31 +0000

Wow they still don’t provide this?

By: Tobias Mann

Tobias Mann — Sun, 01 May 2011 07:13:52 +0000

K. Mandla

You seem to write a lot about minimalist operating systems in both physical requirements as well as UI. Unity is quite minimal in terms of UI under the right conitions the work flow is quite nice. I have yet to decide if the work flow is better than gnome 3 which has me puzzled. It runs very well on old hardware so you might check out the Fedora 15 beta.

Anyone who has used Ubuntu for any amount of time may have gotten attached to a style of UI those of you who replaced gnome panels with AWN or Docky might have less trouble. Someone completely new is going to have alot of respect for the new UI. As much as I don’t like the UI there are just things that make sense.

I hope you will review the Fedora 15 beta or at least the final as I think you will find Gnome-Shell refreshing.

By: hippytaff

hippytaff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:32:50 +0000

When synaptic told me to upgrade to 11.04 I tried and it crashed. I downloaded the iso twice and it didn’t work. I don’t even like unity or gnome shell ,but I though one should give it a go and stop being a stick in the mud, but no. I’m off to bodhi linux