Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy heron) review

dannylill1981 · Jun 20, 2008

i am currently using ubuntu studio, and i must say it is miles ahead of windows, i have all teh effects enabled and it runs like a dream, very responsive much more so than xp. good guide though great for newbies.

mlee49 · Jun 23, 2008

Hey I was thinking of installing this for my 3 year old rig, not sure if this os is good for older spec computers or if I should look for a 'lite' version

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

mlee49 said:
Hey I was thinking of installing this for my 3 year old rig, not sure if this os is good for older spec computers or if I should look for a 'lite' version

what are the specs im sure it will do absolutely fine

mlee49 · Jun 23, 2008

1.8 Sempron
k8m 800
1 gig ram
10 gig hd

Sweet, I'll dl and test it for fun!

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

i have a laptop same specs only with an 80gig hd runs flawlessly

kyle2020 · Jun 23, 2008

will a program such as bittorrent work on a linux installation? Im setting a downloader rig up tomorrow and would like to use linux as its lightweight. I installed it before on a dual boot system however i couldnt get my new wireless adapter to work, i guess i can try my old belkin and HOPE that it works.

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

kyle2020 said:
will a program such as bittorrent work on a linux installation? Im setting a downloader rig up tomorrow and would like to use linux as its lightweight. I installed it before on a dual boot system however i couldnt get my new wireless adapter to work, i guess i can try my old belkin and HOPE that it works.

yup infact linux comes with 2 or 3 bittorrent programs on install...and you can always get others later

thats how i got suse 11 before its release...because novel didnt want beta traffic soaking up their bandwidth so they torrented it.

Easy Rhino · Jun 23, 2008

solaris, ive been meaning to ask you how to got those screen shots of the install. did you grab them from the ubuntu website or do you have a nifty software proggy that does it??

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

i grabbed them from the ubuntu web site...but you can get them during install...it wont save to the hdd because it will be formatted...but if you plug in a thumb drive and hit prntscrn you can save it right to the thumb drive.

kyle2020 · Jun 23, 2008

thanks solaris - sorry to be a pest, but for the bittorrent installer, which one should i download off this page? http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

well a real.ly easy way if you in ubuntu...just do this

go to the terminal and type this

Code:

sudo apt-get install bittorrent

that should work and will do it all for you.

kyle2020 · Jun 23, 2008

Solaris17 said:
well a real.ly easy way if you in ubuntu...just do this

go to the terminal and type this

Code:

sudo apt-get install bittorrent

that should work and will do it all for you.

and i take it for that to work ill need to be able to access the internet? i had a little trouble finding out but the older wireless device (the belkin one) is supported by Ndiswrapper so im covered there (hopefully!). We shal see tomorrow. If all else fails, i have XP media center on disc, so i havent got anything to lose really :toast:

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

ya youll need the net but im sure it will work np.

kyle2020 · Jun 23, 2008

Solaris17 said:
ya youll need the net but im sure it will work np.

Your like yoda haha - any problem, you know the answer :laugh:

thanks again!

Solaris17 · Jun 23, 2008

kyle2020 said:
Your like yoda haha - any problem, you know the answer

thanks again!

np man and your not a pest

xfire · Jun 24, 2008

For people who don't know VLC player is available in linux. It'll play anything for you.
Also for the doc bar there is gdesklets. Gdesklets also has temprature sensor ram and cpu usage etc.

Mussels · Jun 24, 2008

i think i'll give this a test later. i have a spare HDD right now (30GB IDE, though its noisy as hell) and i'll see how it fares on my new media rig.

I know this system can handle 1080p movies in windows, so i'll see how it does in linux.

xfire · Jun 24, 2008

Just get vlc. It'll do the trick. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
this might help too
http://sathyasays.com/2007/06/10/multimedia-support-in-linux/

Mussels · Jun 24, 2008

xfire said:
Just get vlc. It'll do the trick. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
this might help too
http://sathyasays.com/2007/06/10/multimedia-support-in-linux/

is VLC better in linux? its problem in windows is total lack of hardware acceleration, meaning that for HD media its CPU usage is far too high.

xfire · Jun 24, 2008

Its the best player available for linux. Gom player was supposed to com for linux but hasn't come yet. Havent tried HD content in linux.

xfire · Jun 25, 2008

Mussels you could try Dreamlinux Its an multimedia oriented linux distro.

Wile E · Jun 25, 2008

Mussels said:
is VLC better in linux? its problem in windows is total lack of hardware acceleration, meaning that for HD media its CPU usage is far too high.

If cpu usage during playback is a concern, don't bother with linux right now. Not only that, if you are like me, and watch anime and have a ton of mkv's with nice styled subtitiles, nothing I've tried yet displays the subs correctly.

scoutingwraith · Jun 25, 2008

Wile E said:
If cpu usage during playback is a concern, don't bother with linux right now. Not only that, if you are like me, and watch anime and have a ton of mkv's with nice styled subtitiles, nothing I've tried yet displays the subs correctly.

Did you install the K-lite codec pack??? (cant remember if there was one for linux) I havent had any problems with the subs on .mkv files with it.

Mussels · Jun 25, 2008

scoutingwraith said:
Did you install the K-lite codec pack??? (cant remember if there was one for linux) I havent had any problems with the subs on .mkv files with it.

CCCP is better than K-lite, in windows.

K-lite is definately windows only.

mlee49 · Jun 25, 2008

Woot! First Post w/out Windows/Mac OS!

I likey!

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