My experence with Ubuntu 7.10

V

Vista User

Downloaded the image.
Burned image to a CD.
Booted from CD.
Selected "Start or Install" from menu.
System locked up with "Unsupported Video Mode"
Removed CD.
Placed CD in microwave.
Watched the CD sparkle. (The only thing Ubuntu 7.10 CD is good for)
Rebooted Vista.
Now I have a OS that works.
 
C

Charlie Tame

Vista said:
Downloaded the image.
Burned image to a CD.
Booted from CD.
Selected "Start or Install" from menu.
System locked up with "Unsupported Video Mode"
Removed CD.
Placed CD in microwave.
Watched the CD sparkle. (The only thing Ubuntu 7.10 CD is good for)
Rebooted Vista.
Now I have a OS that works.
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And the hardware was?
 
B

Bill

My microwave wouldn't start with the mugabe CD...says invalid for human
consumption

Is there a NG for complaints about mugabe?
 
G

Guest

Now for what stupid reason do you think he should post his hardware? What a
jerk you are. He already made his decision. He didn't ask for help. He was
making a statement.

You are really lame!
 
K

kevpan815

Vista said:
Downloaded the image.
Burned image to a CD.
Booted from CD.
Selected "Start or Install" from menu.
System locked up with "Unsupported Video Mode"
Removed CD.
Placed CD in microwave.
Watched the CD sparkle. (The only thing Ubuntu 7.10 CD is good for)
Rebooted Vista.
Now I have a OS that works.
Click to expand...

I Have Open Source Linux Ubuntu 7.10 Working Just Fine On Two Different
Computer's (An X64 Installation With An ATI Radeon X1300 Graphics Card,
And An X86 Installation With An Nvidia GeForce 8300GS Graphics Card),
Just FYI.
 
T

Telstar

Vista User said:
Downloaded the image.
Burned image to a CD.
Booted from CD.
Selected "Start or Install" from menu.
System locked up with "Unsupported Video Mode"
Removed CD.
Placed CD in microwave.
Watched the CD sparkle. (The only thing Ubuntu 7.10 CD is good for)
Rebooted Vista.
Now I have a OS that works.
Click to expand...

You are lucky. My system locked up period...with no message as to why.

My what a wonderful OS Ubuntu is....and this has happened with every
release.
 
D

dennis@home

I Have Open Source Linux Ubuntu 7.10 Working Just Fine On Two Different
Computer's (An X64 Installation With An ATI Radeon X1300 Graphics Card,
And An X86 Installation With An Nvidia GeForce 8300GS Graphics Card), Just
FYI.
Click to expand...

hoW comE yoU don'T posT froM onE oF youR ubuntU boxeS?
iS iT tO harD tO geT thE stupiD capitalS usinG ubuntU?
 
G

Guest

Pietr'''' Phudpuckr said:
Now for what stupid reason do you think he should post his hardware? What
a
jerk you are. He already made his decision. He didn't ask for help. He was
making a statement.

You are really lame!
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No he's not. the OP made an accusation: Ubuntu is bad.
Charlie was asking for some reason behind the statement.
If you make accusations, you'd better have facts to back
them up. In this case, the hardware looks fairly standard
and so the assertion has merit. The only way to know that
however was to know the type of hardware.

Tom Lake
 
L

Leythos

kevpan815 said:
I Have Open Source Linux Ubuntu 7.10 Working Just Fine On Two Different
Computer's (An X64 Installation With An ATI Radeon X1300 Graphics Card,
And An X86 Installation With An Nvidia GeForce 8300GS Graphics Card),
Just FYI.
Click to expand...

Other than it wiping my 7.0.4 install (erased the entire disk) when it
installed 7.10, and that it picked a monitor frequency that was not
supported on the monitor, it installed just fine.

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drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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C

Charlie Tame

No he's not. the OP made an accusation: Ubuntu is bad.
Charlie was asking for some reason behind the statement.
If you make accusations, you'd better have facts to back
them up. In this case, the hardware looks fairly standard
and so the assertion has merit. The only way to know that
however was to know the type of hardware.

Tom Lake
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Quite so Tom. For some season my first install went bad also, no idea
why, but powering down and trying again worked and everything has been
fine since. On the other had I don't usually put CDs in the microwave to
dispose of them so maybe his idea of "Burning a CD" differs from ours :)
 
R

Richard Urban

It would appear that the O/P really doesn't care. He decided NOT to use
Ubuntu. His choice.

I'm giving it (7.10) a shot but so far I am unhappy with it also.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
 
A

Adam Albright

Other than it wiping my 7.0.4 install (erased the entire disk) when it
installed 7.10, and that it picked a monitor frequency that was not
supported on the monitor, it installed just fine.
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I guess that claim all fanboy love to trout out when Windows
misbehaves that you're suppose to do research before doing stuff
doesn't apply when you screw things up, right?
 
F

Frank

Adam said:
I guess that claim all fanboy love to trout out when Windows
misbehaves that you're suppose to do research before doing stuff
doesn't apply when you screw things up, right?
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You tell us mr computer genius...you fuukin moron.
Frank
 
V

Vista User

Charlie Tame said:
Quite so Tom. For some season my first install went bad also, no idea why,
but powering down and trying again worked and everything has been fine
since. On the other had I don't usually put CDs in the microwave to
dispose of them so maybe his idea of "Burning a CD" differs from ours :)
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Just so you know I tried to boot the CD five times with the same result.
I just thought having some fun with the CD in the microwave would give me
some enjoyment from Ubuntu.
And it did for about 15 seconds.
 
C

Charlie Tame

Vista said:
Just so you know I tried to boot the CD five times with the same result.
I just thought having some fun with the CD in the microwave would give
me some enjoyment from Ubuntu.
And it did for about 15 seconds.
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Well I did not have such flawless results with that versions as with the
previous version, perhaps a case of trying to run before we can walk. I
was far from impressed by the Beta previously, and I already found what
appears to be one bug :)
 
C

Computer & Sound System Tech

I just thought having some fun with the CD in the microwave would give me
some enjoyment from Ubuntu.
And it did for about 15 seconds.
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always living for the present never thinking of the future, what about the
enjoyment for tomorrow, eh?

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M

Mike Hall - MVP

I trashed a perfectly good installation of Win 2000 while installing it onto
an older machine. It runs ok but the video card allows for no fancy
graphics, not that I care.

Fancy graphics do not make up for the fact that it will not run the programs
I want it to run. Until it can, it will never be a replacement for my
Windows production machine.

So it sits there essentially as an exercise in futility. It has no features
or capability over and above Windows Vista, XP or 2000 that would make me
want to dual boot.

For third world countries, being free should make it popular except that
pirating Windows is more popular, and understandably so. Windows runs all
well known and popular programs. Why use an OS that doesn't?

Desktop versions of Linux are a world away from the business side, so do not
take what I am saying as a hit against Linux. It proves itself well in some
areas, and so it should. It is, after all, the much vaunted and highly
capable Unix ported to the cheap end of hardware.
 

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