So I'm guessing there is a lot of Linux guys here and I have just bought a new HDD for installing Linux. So what do you guys recommend for a total newbie (with only Linux that is) like me?
Anything else than Ubuntu
Thanks
I reckon Ubuntu is your best bet Pretty n00b friendly
Edit: lol Just noticed the big writing saying not ubuntu my bad
Try looking here http://www.linux.org/dist/
Set language to english and intel compatible and it will show all the Linux Distributions Maybe just see wht you like the look off
MacaronyMax said:
I reckon Ubuntu is your best bet Pretty n00b friendly
Edit: lol Just noticed the big writing saying not ubuntu my bad
Try looking here http://www.linux.org/dist/
Set language to english and intel compatible and it will show all the Linux Distributions Maybe just see wht you like the look off
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Thx will do
BTW how did you know I have an intel?
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Thx will do
BTW how did you know I have an intel?
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I didn't There was no AMD lol
i'm thinking about Linux now, haha, would i be able to set a dual boot on my laptop that already has XP on it?
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i'm thinking about Linux now, haha, would i be able to set a dual boot on my laptop that already has XP on it?
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Yep you would either need another harddrive or to partition your harddrive or to run in a VM
i was just gonna make another partition, and if i do, and it installs, will it automatically ask me which to boot from when i power it on?
Why not Ubuntu just out of curiosity. Don't want to start a flame war
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i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
factualpuddle said:
i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
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Not too big realy maybe 8GB if your not going to use it much but otherwise more
factualpuddle said:
i personally chose ubuntu, lol, how big would you say i need the partition to be?
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Ubuntu can make almost all the partition work for you
Keithod said:
Why not Ubuntu just out of curiosity. Don't want to start a flame war
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I just think it's too common and too similar to Windows I want something new
Oh okay. If you try something "exotic" let us know your feedback!! I am going to do a reinstall on my computer soon and was thinking of switching away from Ubuntu just for the sake of trying something new so I'd like to hear some objective reviews.
Have you thought about "rolling your own"?
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Keithod said:
Oh okay. If you try something "exotic" let us know your feedback!! I am going to do a reinstall on my computer soon and was thinking of switching away from Ubuntu just for the sake of trying something new so I'd like to hear some objective reviews.
Have you thought about "rolling your own"?
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What do you mean? I did write "newbie" in the title right?
Sorry I meant you can make your own. There's a site dedicated to it but you might not want to do that just yet. Have you looked at OpenSuse? Haven't used it in a while but it was good. I tried the KDE version of Federa a month or two ago. A bit buggy! Mint Linux has had some good reviews anyway just my input!
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Keithod said:
Sorry I meant you can make your own. There's a site dedicated to it but you might not want to do that just yet. Have you looked at OpenSuse? Haven't used it in a while but it was good. I tried the KDE version of Federa a month or two ago. A bit buggy! Mint Linux has had some good reviews anyway just my input!
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Personally it's only the GUI I want to have some variety in so I'm trying out "Xubuntu" which I think is Ubuntu with XDE desktop-thing-which-I-don't-remember-what's-called-thing xD I did read about openSUSE but it was too much like Ubuntu I think
For a complete noob, Ubuntu is the way to go. It'll get you started pretty quick and the interface is just a matter of choice. If you want something that's uberHaxX0rZ, try installing a tiling Window Manager such as awesome instead of Gnome (which is default in Ubuntu).
I myself use Arch Linux with gnome-panel and Compiz as a standalone Window Manager and I'm loving it!
I myself am an Ubuntu man. I'm currently digging the Ubuntu 10.10 beta. 2 weeks until the final release!
I myself is trying to use the default window manager in Kubuntu but I can't get it working It's driving me crazy :/ It just says that non of the effects could be enabled...
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I myself is trying to use the default window manager in Kubuntu but I can't get it working It's driving me crazy :/ It just says that non of the effects could be enabled...
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This usually happens because the drivers for your graphics card aren't installed properly (or the card is ancient).
This is exactly one of the things why I personally dislike Ubuntu. If you're lucky, it'll work like a charm, but if you're not, you're gonna spend hours and hours trying to get it to work.
Either way, you can probably fix it by downloading and installing proprietary drivers for your card, since the open source ones probably don't work with your card. Though on the other hand, maybe you need to use opensource ones because the proprietary ones that installed automatically don't work? Who knows?
Related
XGI Volari XP5 GPU: I'm going to make you my *****.
Me: [email protected] sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
XGI Volari XP5 GPU: WHAT....WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAR?
Me: -Scrolls down to the trident listing with maniacal laughter-
XGI Volari XP5 GPU: OH GOD NO... PLEASE!
Me: -Selects-
XGI Volari XP5 GPU: PL0X NUUUUUU!
Me: -Eye twitch selecting it follows by sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop && sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start-
Me Now: BWUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA MWUAHAH MUWHAAHA MUWHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -cough-
sounds like you have quite the life i have had a few weekends like that recently, gotta love weekends like this
Too bad it still didn't work.... LOL. It troll faced me.
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Lol. Linux?
Yep Linux. Windows gets along with my PC even worse. lmao.
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XxsydenxX said:
Yep Linux. Windows gets along with my PC even worse.
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LOL!! Your pc is rebelling against windows?
flyboyovyick said:
LOL!! Your pc is rebelling against windows?
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Yeah... I get a blue screen when ever i even try to install. lmao...
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Yeah... I get a blue screen when ever i even try to install. lmao...
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but if you install via cd it is just a big blue screen at first LOL that could be your problem!
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but if you install via cd it is just a big blue screen at first LOL that could be your problem!
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Hey you. You think you're soo cool with your HTC Desire don't you... well let me tell you something, YOU ARE! THAT PHONE ROCKS! GIVE IT TO ME~
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but if you install via cd it is just a big blue screen at first LOL that could be your problem!
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Erm i know better, i meant..BSOD D:
I hate unique hardware >_>;
Ahhh Linux, I felt her up in 9th grade, then dumped her cause she didn't give me what I wanted. Some wine and some steam action. . . .
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Ahhh Linux, I felt her up in 9th grade, then dumped her cause she didn't give me what I wanted. Some wine and some steam action. . . .
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Funny lol...
I heard steam announced a mac version of steam Offically.
Also heard they saw linux.so's among some of their games, may be coming to linux too..but who knows.
Not quite sure i'm gonna do about this laptop...
I hope linux gets as much support. It would probably make me want to go, but some things in Windows 7, I must say, make me want to say.
Also, funny story, I did mess around with Ubuntu(7.x) in 9th grade, and I really did try to run steam in wine. It ran but then a few weeks later it quit.
I have read the thread about Full Ubuntu on the Atrix. What I am asking is something different.
Cant this hack work on the Motorola Atrix
Ubuntu on Nexus/Android Phone
It has instructions that seem to work on all android phones.
Anyone want to try it and tell me how it goes.
Should. There was a thread in here about doing the same thing but with debian. Its probably a couple of pages back.
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I can't seem to find it. Can tell me roughly what the title was?
Also any other devs care to chime in?
Please
It'll probably work, but... why??? You already have a perfectly functional Ubuntu running on your phone.
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It'll probably work, but... why??? You already have a perfectly functional Ubuntu running on your phone.
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Well to access that I will need some output monitor. I would like to have Ubuntu on the screen itself.
What is the worst that can happen to the phone if I tried it?
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Well to access that I will need some output monitor. I would like to have Ubuntu on the screen itself.
What is the worst that can happen to the phone if I tried it?
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The worst? Who knows?
Sure, you could set up a VNC server under the Ubuntu and then run VNC from either your device (Android) or from an external client. That's what the linked method is doing, so there's nothing inherently better about it.
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The worst? Who knows?
Sure, you could set up a VNC server under the Ubuntu and then run VNC from either your device (Android) or from an external client. That's what the linked method is doing, so there's nothing inherently better about it.
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Well I don't know much but do you think that method at the source will work?
It doesn't seem to dive into the phone too much. It seems like an app. Also does anyone know of a way to get rid of it after I install it?
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Well I don't know much but do you think that method at the source will work?
It doesn't seem to dive into the phone too much. It seems like an app. Also does anyone know of a way to get rid of it after I install it?
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Me? No idea. I'm not sure how much magic is happening behind the scenes, and I'm currently involved in, well, making sure that the Ubuntu that Motorola ships works well to look too deeply into this. Sorry.
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Me? No idea. I'm not sure how much magic is happening behind the scenes, and I'm currently involved in, well, making sure that the Ubuntu that Motorola ships works well to look too deeply into this. Sorry.
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ok no problem if you come along something can you please tell me.
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I have read the thread about Full Ubuntu on the Atrix. What I am asking is something different.
Cant this hack work on the Motorola Atrix
Ubuntu on Nexus/Android Phone
It has instructions that seem to work on all android phones.
Anyone want to try it and tell me how it goes.
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Have you seen my post on getting Debian running on the Atrix? Debian and Ubuntu are kind of similar IMO, and can run the same applications. To get it go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986071
Thank you so much that is what I wanted.
Yea I use debian on my laptop and Ubuntu on my desktop.
Glad to see I helped But the question is did it work? I know a LOT of people were having trouble with it. I did it fine with no problems, I hope it went the same way for you.
I'm working on getting a vanilla copy of Debian running on the device. So far everything works except X, which can't detect a properly configured device. Will post if I have any success with it.
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I'm working on getting a vanilla copy of Debian running on the device. So far everything works except X, which can't detect a properly configured device. Will post if I have any success with it.
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Thats great! Playing with Debian on the Atrix is actually quite fun. I had problems installing deb packages on it though for some reason. Have you tried installing flash on the FireWiesel browser? Failed for me. As did everything else I tried to install.
Did anyone see the article on meego posted to the nook? Can't post the link right now just google it.
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didnt mean to thank but oh well...
heres a video on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5xtnP22Fuw
was just gonna post a topic about meego on NC, seems like u got there first.
cant wait to install meego on my NC. i love my NC <3
I can't wait to try it too. Anybody know of install instructions for it yet? I hit up Meegoexperts and they just had the article.
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I can't wait to try it too. Anybody know of install instructions for it yet? I hit up Meegoexperts and they just had the article.
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http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Nook_Color
That's the best I could find for "instructions" and its not by the people (nomovok) who actually got it running so well. I believe in the link above the dev is having trouble with xorg.
Yes I wouldn't mind trying this to, especially if the OS is hardware accelerated throughout.
I would be interested too
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I did some searching and was unable to find any other instruction for building or any downloads for meego on nook color. I am thinking this will rock if we can get it working.
Very cool! Cannot wait to give this a try
would be nice to have specific instructions, seems like the person on meego wiki instruction built the image using the source codes from meego and B&N. the person is suppose to post his image soon I guess?
can't seem to find anything directly from novomok though. Would be nice to try this out
oh looks nice and the Package manage is RPM I wander if we can install RPM apps
anyone know how to build from code.
I dont but I will test
here is a good thred to keep an eye on
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3037&page=4
This sounds interesting.
Still rocking the Incredible with the XDA Premium App.
quoting wmarone
"According to what I've heard, it's a chroot inside the Android 2.2 environment. So not much to be gained from the kernel there. Nonetheless, a cool proof of concept."
Too bad its a chroot, It'd be cool to actually have this running natively.
Interessting. I miss my n900. maybe my nook can help me to forget them ^^
I can't wait to flash meego^^
Any news about meego on NC ?
Haven't heard or seen anything at all about it lately. I would love it if somebody made some ARM Linux distro work on it. It'd open it up to everything.
You can check the Meego project for it but I'm not sure it's been updated lately.
The main problem is kernel.
Meego need 2.6.37 and above kernel, but no drvers for NC now.
riverzhou said:
The main problem is kernel.
Meego need 2.6.37 and above kernel, but no drvers for NC now.
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Are we not on that kernel yet? Hmm, maybe it was 2.6.32 that we're on.
Good to know something about it though. I'd still love MeeGo on this thing. Think it would be pretty awesome.
I like how that looks. I miss MeeGo...
hey i was wondering if someone would help me install ubuntu on my win7 hp laptop now i tried this erlier via the usb method but i almost killed my computer my computer restarted and i got a black screen of death and i went into recovery and it hung on automatic system repair for about 40min and i was about 2min away from doing a full wipe on my computer and starting over luckily it finished and my computer restarted and all is good now. so now im ready for round 2 however i would really like some outside help before i try and tackle this again blindly lol.
so would someone please pm me and ill send u my gtalk info.
thx in advance.
I would imagine ubuntu hasn't changed all that much since I last tried the distro. Plus editing partitions is almost universally the same so I'll help you one of these nights (Mon- Wed) if you don't get help from someone else before hand.
Edit: actually I'm back in my town again, so tonight could possibly work out as well depending on when you're free. (I'm free between ~7-10pm CST then I have some things to take care of)
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thx kyouko but i managed to get it going using a cd isntead of usb im loving this i did a 20gig hdd partition for it and i may make this my daily lol.
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thx kyouko but i managed to get it going using a cd isntead of usb im loving this i did a 20gig hdd partition for it and i may make this my daily lol.
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good to hear. especially because things came up and I'm no longer free to help if I wanted
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ummmm.
Just to ask, what dose this have to do with an htc hero ?
but to answer your question u can just DL the .iso and mount it and the auto play will let you install it on top of windows
okay first of all im really glad your second post on xda was to flame somebody. second if youd bothered to read it you would've realized i got it fixed but thx anyway....
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Just to ask, what dose this have to do with an htc hero ?
but to answer your question u can just DL the .iso and mount it and the auto play will let you install it on top of windows
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Walk away man... you almost bricked your hero and with the help of xda members you got it back up. Be grateful. This is the general section. Plus its linux. Which is what you have in your hand. In turn which is a hero... which has....linux.... so yes it has to do with the hero....
Enough sarcasm?
®patience is a virtue©
Good to hear that you got it installed.
JFYI - Ubuntu has an option where it can be installed as a directory within Windows. I have not used that option, but it did come up when I installed it, last time.
yea ubuntu is pretty sweet kind of buggy though im glad i only did a 20gig partition lol
try running arch linux no bugs here
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Edit: Which version did you install on your computer? x64 or i386 (32bit)
i installed ubuntu 11.0.4 64 bit the main bugs are wirless tether not working and after looking around in the ubuntu forums its something to do with the wireless drivers on ubuntu
So what you guys thinking?
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So what you guys thinking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU
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if someone got this working for a touchpad, i would be willing to give up android and webos for this. i am actually a fan of webos and i wish it had better support. i am just a user and no dev, so in reality i am not a solution.
With most things android it will just require the right people and circumstances and it can happen. But the touchpad has had its issues with compatibility and not to short any of the devs here, it seems that there are fewer with touchpads than other devices so ya never know.
As soon as we get 13.04 fully working on the Touchpad (well, at least to a point where it is useable like the 12.10 now) then we can get Ubuntu for Phones. It's not so much the kernel because they're gonna fully open source Ubuntu for Phones by the end of this month so we only need to port the GUI over to the 13.04 base (which should be doable).
Though I'm not sure how useable it would be. I mean, it's targeted for 4-5 inch phones so will it be useable and not just a stretched lay-out like the old Android 2.3 tablets?
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As soon as we get 13.04 fully working on the Touchpad (well, at least to a point where it is useable like the 12.10 now) then we can get Ubuntu for Phones. It's not so much the kernel because they're gonna fully open source Ubuntu for Phones by the end of this month so we only need to port the GUI over to the 13.04 base (which should be doable).
Though I'm not sure how useable it would be. I mean, it's targeted for 4-5 inch phones so will it be useable and not just a stretched lay-out like the old Android 2.3 tablets?
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Considering that Shuttleworth announced ubuntu for tablets within the last couple days, I think we can be hopeful that a "tablet ubuntu" will end up on the touchpad a short time after it ends up on other android devices.
Basically, its as easy to build as CM.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/
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This can be done.
Pulled sources this morning and cross compiled. In the emulator everything works perfectly. Will have to to wait till the USPS brings me my new tablet in the next few days to be sure. But i think i can have something ready to go fairly soon.
I have done ports before with some success. you just gotta understand, getting it running and getting the hardware support are two very different things.
I will keep this page updated ad i get progress or crash and burn, Either way. Unless Divine_Madcat decides to close this thread as well.
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Considering that Shuttleworth announced ubuntu for tablets within the last couple days, I think we can be hopeful that a "tablet ubuntu" will end up on the touchpad a short time after it ends up on other android devices.
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Yes, but when I posted that on February 10 there was no Ubuntu for Tablets yet. But indeed, now there is so it'll probably come to our Touchpad.
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This can be done.
Pulled sources this morning and cross compiled. In the emulator everything works perfectly. Will have to to wait till the USPS brings me my new tablet in the next few days to be sure. But i think i can have something ready to go fairly soon.
I have done ports before with some success. you just gotta understand, getting it running and getting the hardware support are two very different things.
I will keep this page updated ad i get progress or crash and burn, Either way. Unless Divine_Madcat decides to close this thread as well.
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Willing to test any alpha builds and such
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Its still a developer preview, I tried it on my nexus 7 and its cool and all but not groundbreaking yet.
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Waiting for cm10.1 for touchpad because I would love to give this a look.
Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Well if you do get a port working for the Touchpad please let me know. I am very interested in giving this a try.
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Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Make a new thread once you are able to release something.
modem_over said:
Still working in this. Getting the partitioning changed on the Touchpad is a nightmare. I forgot how easy an emulator made some things.
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Did you see my scripts I made for the TouchpadBuntu project? Might be a good starting point. The install script had been verified good by many people though I think I left out a line on the uninstall script, if I remember correctly.
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Did you see my scripts I made for the TouchpadBuntu project? Might be a good starting point. The install script had been verified good by many people though I think I left out a line on the uninstall script, if I remember correctly.
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Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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Exactly. I thought it was CM10.1 but the base of this is CM. It still will take effort to port, but it's not the same as other Ubuntu variants that have been releases for TP.
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Most ov the content at https://code.google.com/p/hp-touchpad-ubuntu/ is not super helpful at this point. The base for the Ubuntu touch system is CM10. The native ubuntuArm project is a much more pure version of the Ubuntu system than the Ubuntu touch system will ever be that it makes half of the files unusable.
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I just meant for the partitioning part that he was having trouble with. My scripts didn't have much to do with Ubuntu itself, more terminal commands run within WebOS to create the necessary partitions for Ubuntu. I think those might help still though, if someone wants to keep Android instead of replacing it with Ubuntu Touch.
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I just meant for the partitioning part that he was having trouble with. My scripts didn't have much to do with Ubuntu itself, more terminal commands run within WebOS to create the necessary partitions for Ubuntu. I think those might help still though, if someone wants to keep Android instead of replacing it with Ubuntu Touch.
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Yes, I have found that to be helpful. I think with that partitioning should be finished up tonight. Who knows. Class for the next few days than back to this project.
Thanks man.
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modem_over said:
Yes, I have found that to be helpful. I think with that partitioning should be finished up tonight. Who knows. Class for the next few days than back to this project.
Thanks man.
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Looks like someone else has this going. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175277