Newbie query: Ubuntu vs openSUSE

[Rameshwar Kr. Sharma]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Johnny <candj01 at att.net> wrote:

> If you use anything but Ubuntu. Most of the other live CD I have to disable
> ipv6 thing to get on the Internet with Firefox. I have 3 PCs and have do do
> it on all. I did write this but if you try something other that Ubuntu 11.10
> you might want it handy. You can do a config:about and disable there but
> that only helps Firefox. I like unity. But I use unity2 better than Gnome.
> Just me.
> Merry Christmas and God Bless Johnny3 65+++

> Easier way to do this is to pass the kernel a parameter to disable ipv6 on
> bootup. To do that, edit /etc/default/grub and add "ipv6.disable_ipv6=1" on
> the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line so it looks similar to the following:

> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ipv6.disable_ipv6=1"

> Save the file and then run "sudo update-grub" to update grub.cfg and
> generate new initramfs images. Reboot and ipv6 should be disabled on all
> interfaces.

Merry Christmas to you also Johny, I am really liking Ubuntu and
definitely would give Unity a try, irrespective of what I heard.