It depends on what you do. It's certainly a beautiful Linux distro. I personally have never booted into XP since I've installed it. My girlfriend likes to use XP, though, and I wouldn't mind keeping it around. As a second OS that you can use whenever you honestly don't need XP, it's perfect. It also doesn't take much space and the partition manager that is built into the ISO (boot the installer off a USB stick, dont try using the EXE installer) works just fine. It didn't delete any of the data on my SSD when I messed with the partition and made room for Jolicloud.
New kernel out since a few days. Up to version 0.8 now.
Bamp.
Gonna install this now, but does it only just install alongside your Windows Install, or can you completely wipe the HDD and start over, or am I being a complete tool?
Gonna install this now, but does it only just install alongside your Windows Install, or can you completely wipe the HDD and start over, or am I being a complete tool?
Both can be done.CammRobb wrote:
Bamp.
Gonna install this now, but does it only just install alongside your Windows Install, or can you completely wipe the HDD and start over, or am I being a complete tool?
Wowzer, that was the easiest install I've ever done. Piece of piss, and damn this shit is fast.
The RC is now out (imagine that is what you have, Camm). Going to update my computer today and get it, too.
Tried it and got some error when it tried to boot into it.. Something about something being "null or invalid".
Try installing it on your netbook again. You might also want to look at the list of supported devices that it works on...
I'm trying to put it on my desktop
Well that might be your problem. Just put Ubuntu on there...
Netbooks do quite well for some Diablo II and retro gamingliquidat0r wrote:
Well you're not really supposed to play games on netbooks ...Finray wrote:
How is game compatibility? I might try it out.
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Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Just a quick thing I posted on the Jolicloud forum to fix/edit the boot prompt so you can select between XP and whatever Jolicloud kernels you have installed and how to remove old kernels:
1) Install Start-up Manager via these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/StartUpManager (even though that is for Ubuntu, it will still work for Jolicloud) Here you can manage all of your start-up settings without ever having to work with a txt file or the command line.
2) To remove the old kernels, open a terminal and enter the following commandType in your password and you are now in the Synaptic Package Manager. Go to the Search bar and type in "jolicloud" and press Enter. Then there will be a long line of various packages and some will have green boxes next to them, others will not. Sort them by whether or not they are checked (click the column header above the green/white boxes). Now scroll down until you find the various images/kernels for Jolicloud. When you find a version you wish to remove, click its green box and mark it for complete removal. It's good practice to always keep the most recent kernel and the last kernel you know you didn't have any issues with. For me this is the most recent and the version before it.Code:
sudo synaptic
If you have any further questions, feel free to post them here.
I'm going to buy a netbook today, probably an Acer Aspire One. Should Jolicloud be the first thing i install?
From what i've read in here and seen elsewhere, it looks ideal for my purposes.
From what i've read in here and seen elsewhere, it looks ideal for my purposes.
Yes.
ThanksCapnNismo wrote:
Yes.
yeah it's really, really good.baggs wrote:
ThanksCapnNismo wrote:
Yes.
Big ol' Bampity Bamp!
My sister came to me asking to speed up her netbook, I suggest we could put Linux on it, she didn't know what that was. (She only knows of Windows and Mac OS)
So, whilst figuring out which distro to install I remembered about some operating system that Tazz mentioned a while ago.
So I've downloaded the ISO, and bootable USB creater, and I'm away to install it, see what it's like now!
My sister came to me asking to speed up her netbook, I suggest we could put Linux on it, she didn't know what that was. (She only knows of Windows and Mac OS)
So, whilst figuring out which distro to install I remembered about some operating system that Tazz mentioned a while ago.
So I've downloaded the ISO, and bootable USB creater, and I'm away to install it, see what it's like now!
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
why's this thread still going on after this^?max wrote:
It's ubuntu all right, gnome and all.
Runs 2.6.30 kernel, so hardware support should be good
Personally I'd just install a regular distro and then start tweaking
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
I bumped because this is for a 13 year old girl, I have limited experience with Linux, and I highly doubt my sister is able to learn Linux commands for installing stuff!Shahter wrote:
why's this thread still going on after this^?max wrote:
It's ubuntu all right, gnome and all.
Runs 2.6.30 kernel, so hardware support should be good
Personally I'd just install a regular distro and then start tweaking
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
if one so desires, ubuntu (and a number of other distro's) is 100% gui these days.Camm wrote:
I bumped because this is for a 13 year old girl, I have limited experience with Linux, and I highly doubt my sister is able to learn Linux commands for installing stuff!Shahter wrote:
why's this thread still going on after this^?max wrote:
It's ubuntu all right, gnome and all.
Runs 2.6.30 kernel, so hardware support should be good
Personally I'd just install a regular distro and then start tweaking
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
That's the beauty with Jolicloud, Camm - you really don't need to learn any commands at all unless something really goes wrong or you want to start getting creative with the installation. All of the programs you'd really possibly need are in their "app store" - she really shouldn't have a hard time working with that.
same goes for just about any modern linux distro. just pick one that goes easier on the system resources and you'll be fine. no need to go "creative" with the installation at all.
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
Just let the coon use what he wants. jeezus.Shahter wrote:
same goes for just about any modern linux distro. just pick one that goes easier on the system resources and you'll be fine. no need to go "creative" with the installation at all.
everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... seriously. ♥
pretty much this. Anything other than answering the question is pretty much just "projecting" how smart you think you are.tazz. wrote:
Just let the coon use what he wants. jeezus.Shahter wrote:
same goes for just about any modern linux distro. just pick one that goes easier on the system resources and you'll be fine. no need to go "creative" with the installation at all.
not "projecting" anything. just pointing out that any linux distro is just that - a linux distro.jsnipy wrote:
pretty much this. Anything other than answering the question is pretty much just "projecting" how smart you think you are.tazz. wrote:
Just let the coon use what he wants. jeezus.Shahter wrote:
same goes for just about any modern linux distro. just pick one that goes easier on the system resources and you'll be fine. no need to go "creative" with the installation at all.
if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.