Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu linux is multimedia unleashed, i play even weird formats like .3gp, .vob etc without issues. Also realplayer is also available on linux. If you're in lagos contact bigbrovar, or better still visit ubuntunigeria.wordpress.com

Thanks so much fissayo, i hope to spend more time here also after my exams

This is the only place i ever feel at home (linux thread) and this is really looking up in the linux world and truely i cannot find anything better to use rigth now am having a desktop system that use to be my linux box but now have installed windoze XP on it because its for sale i barely even touch except for playing songs and i get annoy everytime because WM player cannot remember the last songs you played even with a playlist you'll have to load your playlist everytime you want to play music unlike all linux music players just point the location where the song is and thats all.   

All tired of the talk that i can do this on windows and i can't do it on linux
Here are few of what you can do on linux that you cannot do on windo$e

http://dmartin.org/weblog/things-i-can-do-in-linux-that-i-can't-do-on-windows

I hope you linux gurus in the house can add to the list cheerio

Just to add meself to this post - anyone in Anambra with ubuntu issues, send me an email, might be able 2 help u out (or  I might learn a thing or 2 from u, who knows? .

sorry afo ,  am now in abuja to take up the job in AUST,  a cousin miss placed my number ,  so i could take it with me ,  however u can reach me on this number 08079535004

awesome ,  please let me know if u want me to add u to the list of sources were ubuntu can be obtain from freely ,  we currently don't have anybody from the east ,  if u need me to help you with cds just send me a mail ,   bigbrovar@gmail.com
 cheers mate

http://ubuntunigeria.wordpress.com/category/get-ubuntu/ 

Been using it since yesterday. Pretty cool.

Most of my add-ons work (except Minimise to tray and I think I can survive without it for now). I think its a bit faster (nothing mind-blowing). But then I'm very suggestible. THe major speed difference is in tab-switching which used to be a bit slow in 2.** (at least on my machine).

The interface is a bit different and I think the rendering is a bit better: some of the pages I view often (my company website for example) actually seem nicer.

One thing I really hate are the "smart" bookmarks and autofills. Its a very personal thing. When typing in web addresses it tries to make all sorts of suggestions. Very irritating,. . . well to me at least. I've killed it.

I think its better and everyone who can should upgrade, but its not mind-blowing.

Sure no probs. I'll email u soon.

exactly ,   and we would be using ldad for authentication of the clients against the file server where the home dir would be mounted ,  also we would be using system imager and chroot alot,  its pretty cool stuff ,  about the edubuntu ,  well my supervisor wanted us to use the default ubuntu ,  but i can always install edubuntu package later on ,  cheers

Can anyone send the Ubuntu Linux to me. I leave in Sapele, Delta State.

Thanks

Gimp is sure a great tool, i mean its just wonderful. The GUI might look strange but its lovely.
For me and Blender i think we are getting along now

the project here is massive ,  never since or heard anything like it ,  most of the lecturers are from all around the world ,  its just massive ,  the school uses only open software ,  so all the students for the students and the secretaries would be  on ubuntu ,  to make things smooth we used system imager which would allow u to customize ubuntu and send the resultant imager into a server which other systejm would boot from ,  i customized the ubuntu the school would be using ,  and its composed of free software ,  the best that open source has to offer ,  i would be sending down an aptoncd special science edittion to lagos soon ,   yeah for some people its still a windows world ,  but for me  ,  i have been completely free of windows for the past 7 months now ,  i don't have any micro$oft technology ,   ,  in my life ,  not even virtualbox xp .all my drives are ext3 and not the buggy ntfs. my two laptops run ubuntu  and i can do everything i use to do on windows without missing a thing ,  am not a gamer so i guess that also helps , i recently got an ipod touch ,  cus i couldnt lay my hands on the linux powered Nokia 810 ,  i was scared that it might lock me to windows  cus it was built to only work with itunes ,  but after reading little research i was able to sync it with amarok without any problem ,  so ,  i jailbreak my itouch ,   installed BSDsubsystem and installed open ssh and a bash terminal ,  so the bitch runs like a full blown linux device ,  i can ssh into the school server from my bed and i can run bash commands on it , 

that was aweful of me ,  i can't even imagine i ever said those things about windows ,  well i guess now i know better ,  i installed mint linux on my work laptop and i must say that i was pleasantly suprised and impressed ,  the distro looks soo published and well thougt out ,  everything is polished from the start menu which many window users would feel at home with (and which windows copied and implemented on vista) to the art work to the fact that all your multimedia codecs are installed by default ,  the distro is based on ubuntu ,  and the latest version is called Linux Mint 5 Elyssa ,  and it is based on ubuntu hardy heron ,  i have since been using it on my work laptop and i plan on installing it on my personal laptop soon when i have the time ,

The Electricity situation now continues to amaze,
I really don't know where Nigeria is heading 

-[n3rve]

Slowest internet connection using Firefox 3 and Ubuntu

Speed up Firefox 3 on Ubuntu: [WARNING: designed for broadband only, dialup not work]

Maybe you have wrong DNS servers on Ubuntu Network setting that causes network connection very slow. Go Network setting that is found at System > Administration > Networking > DNS, then insert your own ISP's DNS SERVERS there. Hit 'ok'. If not solve it, then next step here:

1. Open Firefox 3, go Application > Internet > Firefox or use Firefox icon on menubar.

2. Enter the blank address bar: about:config

3. Enter the text field of Filter: (one a time type at below, then double-click to change on '=> bold' -it automatically double-click 'true' change itself)

• network.dns.disableIPv6 => true
• network.http.pipelining => true
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 8
• network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy => 8
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server => 8

4. restart (close) Firefox 3

5. Wait few minutes, then open Firefox 3, there you go surfing faster much better.

Unfortunately I lost the link where I found on google. It works on my son's Ubuntu system loading Firefox 3 surfing on the internet much better. No more hang too long connection. 

Good luck!

@adewaleafolabi

Read my post it says this is for BROADBAND ONLY.

It will not work on dialup on Firefox 3/Ubuntu for networking configuration.  It has different dialup setting using pppo on Ubuntu. I have no idea about dialup configuration/setting procedure for Firefox 3 on Ubuntu because I am broadband user.

Google for slow dialup connection using Firefox 3 and Unbuntu that is for dialup(pppo) configuration.

Good luck!