Comments on: Hairy Hardon is the most cancerous Ubanto yet

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:44:17 +0000

The brightness applet doesn’t seem to do anything for me, but I get seven levels of brightness through the function keys by default.

By: growingneeds

growingneeds — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:50:29 +0000

I managed to fine-tune the LCD brightness to a greater degree by adding the ‘Brightness Applet’ to the Gnome Panel.
1.Right-click a specified location on the Gnome Panel and select ‘Add to Panel…’
2.Select ‘Brightness Applet’.

To achieve 7 adjustable levels of brightness on the function keys (instead of the usual 3), and to keep the LCD brightness from being set at the maximum after every reboot:
1.In a terminal, type “gksudo gedit”.
2.Open the file “/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist”.
3.Add a new line “blacklist video”.
4.Reduce brightness to mimimum (or desired level).
5.Reboot.

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:58:28 +0000

Christopher is that other guy.

By: /prog/

/prog/ — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Congratulations, Christopher, this page is the #5 result on a Google search of “ubanto”

By: /prog/

/prog/ — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:27 +0000

Congratulations, Xarn, this page is the #1 result on a Google search of “hairy hardon”

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:58:07 +0000

I got my wireless to work under Debian, so now there’s no reason to prefer Ubuntu over it left~

By: pvinis

pvinis — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:43:56 +0000

instead of upgrading… make a clean install of 8.04. i have the alpha and the beta…. they all worked perfectly good. firefox 3 still sucks at addons, but it soon will support them all.

By: echomikeromeo

echomikeromeo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:57:23 +0000

However, the only distro I’ve ever got to recognize my wireless is Ubuntu – then again, I have absolutely the worst wireless card in the history of Linux. Linksys WPC54G v. 2 is the only one that seemingly never works.

By: echomikeromeo

echomikeromeo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:56:21 +0000

7.04 never took 15 seconds for me. :(

I would still advise Ubuntu for newbies. Isn’t anyone coming from Windows or OSX used to bloat?

I think Fedora’s the next-most friendly newbie distro, though.