I find Ubuntu’s double clicking on the .iso image I want to burn and inserting a blank disk more intuitive than OS X’s Finder => Applications => Utilities => Disk Utility => Burn then selecting the image I want to burn and then inserting a blank disk. What’s worse, is that the more “obvious” path of double clicking on the .iso and selecting File => Burn to Disc doesn’t do what you expect. Also, why is it Disk Utility but Burn to Disc?
I tried the amd64 image first. Could only install in Safe Video mode (800x600), and when done, it told me that the NVDIA adaptor was required but not enabled, and I could not select a higher resolution. Also wifi didn’t work. FAIL.
Trying again with the i386 image, and video, wifi, sound, and suspend all work.
Fonts on my website on this version of Ubuntu on the supplied version of Firefox on a T61 display are still suboptimal. Decide it is time to do something about it. The fonts on Mark's site look fine to me on both Windows XP with Firefox 2 and Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3 on the same display, so I steal one line from Mark’s css. Refresh. Done.
Haven’t played around much, but the following leaves one with a broken version of Ruby gems:
System => Administration => Hardware Drivers => check NVIDIA; Enable; Close; Reboot; Suspend; Resume; see blank screen; Hard Boot; uncheck NVIDIA; Reboot.
I am aware that we probably differ in our priorities (pragmatism vs. idealism) but I think that Ubuntu not installing non-free video/wifi drivers is a great move, one that surprises me for Ubuntu.
If this helps even a few people read around the subject to understand WHY these things are not installed by default then that’s a net win for the Free Software movement.
Because the optical formats supported are CD, compact disc and DVD, digital versatile disc; both use the “disc” spelling. Everything else is related to disk images or hard disks, which are through custom spelled with k, not c.
I agree that burning an image should be simpler, yeah.
that you can unzip and install in ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder. Right-click an .iso file and choose “Burn .iso to Disc” from the Automator submenu.
As much as Noah and I would like the world to work otherwise, your bad experience with the amd64 distribution is probably the result of bugs, not philosophy. NVIDIA drivers work perfectly well in 64-bit distributions, and whatever wireless hacks are required for your hardware should work as well. My guess is that the i386 distribution is far and away more popular, so it receives more QA time. Did you file a bug report?
To be clear: I did nothing to select NVIDIA when I tried that install disk... and the results were ambiguous as to whether or not it was actually trying to use that driver, and no amount of deselecting or selection that I tried worked.
With Gutsy and my previous laptop, I ran without any proprietary video drivers. It is my best guess that I will do likewise with Hardy and my current laptop. And, by the looks of it, with a kernel that was compiled for i386.
Did you file a bug report?
Not yet. I’ll try reinstalling and using apport-cli, but it probably won’t be until tomorrow that I do so.
As a point of feedback: I find this new font style to make for much less pleasant reading. I don’t quite know why I don’t have that impression over at Mark’s, but I suspect it’s his shorter line lengths (I browse fullscreen at 1680 wide) together with a higher line-height which make the text flow nicer on the eyes.
I’m not asking to change anything back on my behalf, as I’ve reverted it for myself by adding the following rule to my userContent.css stylesheet - but thought you should know.
@-moz-document url-prefix("http://www.intertwingly.net/blog") { html { font-family: verdana, georgia, times, “times new roman”, serif !important; } }