[ubuntu-us-in] Ubuntu-us-in Digest, Vol 40, Issue 5

[Scott D Howard]

I am really enjoying 11.04, better than any previous version. However the
only issue I have is that my Dell laptop with a Broadcom wireless card is
not working with 11.04. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.



On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:00 AM, <ubuntu-us-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com>wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:27:24 -0400
> From: "Jeremy L. Gaddis" <jlgaddis at gnu.org>
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> "Mark C. Miller" <mmiller at millermc.net> wrote:
> > I'd love to try the switch over, but the new meatier graphics
> > requirements for Unity are stopping me.  I have some old P4 HT
> > machines that have been running ubuntu since I first started with
> > 8.04.  Now, I'm dead-in-the-water.  Good thing I tested it with a
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> I'm not an Ubuntu-on-the-desktop user, but 11.04 has both xfce[0] and
> awesome[1] (my choice) according to packages.ubuntu.com.  Both will have
> *much* lower resource requirements.
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> Being a CLI junkie and "mouse-hater" I find that awesome works quite
> well for me on those instances when I do need a GUI (mostly just for a
> browser).
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> Perhaps one of those might be better suited for your older machines?
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> [0]: http://www.xfce.org/
> [1]: http://awesome.naquadah.org/
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