Alex Coplan
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 15, 2009 0:57:26 GMT
Cool, I will try that
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gavin
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Post by gavin on Jan 26, 2009 11:26:18 GMT
I downloaded an Ubuntu virtual machine free of charge from the VMWare website. It all worked perfectly nicely. Very impressive, specially since it's free. HOWEVER, and it's a BIG however; Ubuntu is butt ugly. Sure you can get themes for it but I have been unimpressed so far. Part of the attraction of a Mac is beautiful hardware allied to a beautiful OS. Ubuntu absolutely ruins that. In fact at it's best, I have not seen it looking any nicer than Windows XP. I can see it has a place etc etc but for the time being at least, I am going to stick with the pay for options.
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Alex Coplan
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 28, 2009 8:55:24 GMT
Have you tried changing the Visual Effects in Appearance? I have it running on my old PC, and it's very impressive, almost better than mac, I have the theme set to dark room and visual effects on extra - try it out, it's beuatiful P.S Try dragging windows when it's on extra
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Post by wierdostomps on Jan 29, 2009 21:06:57 GMT
Gavin - I've just tried this, but the image is a .7z file which neither stuffit nor archiver will open. What did you use to unzip it?
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Post by wierdostomps on Jan 29, 2009 22:36:14 GMT
OK, I've just found EZ 7z which has done the trick. Five minutes later, I've got Ubuntu installed and up and running fine. I need to get hold of some apps to try it out really, although the built in stuff seems to work fine under Fusion. I guess that is the way to go.
Tim
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timh
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Post by timh on Feb 1, 2009 19:11:31 GMT
No need to pay for Parallels or VMWare at all, if you're going Open Sauce you might as well get all the flavour and go for VirtualBox. It's free, very stable and has pretty much the same feature set. As long as you remember to allocate a decent amount of memory to your virtual machine BEFORE installing the OS it's a doddle to set up - I've usually got 2-3 distros to play with at any time :-). It's available here www.virtualbox.org/ Enjoy, Tim
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Alex Coplan
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Post by Alex Coplan on Feb 3, 2009 15:49:45 GMT
The best way to get software for ubuntu, is to actually go to add/remove programs which will connect to their online database, I have it running on my old PC, better than Windoze on a low performance machine... I do run Windoze on my mac using boot camp though, I really need the performance
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Post by wierdostomps on Feb 4, 2009 17:21:57 GMT
Hmm - must have a look to see whether there is a decent home accounts package. I used to use Gnucash under Fink, but upgrading it took forever - and frequently failed. And it wouldn't print - and crashed when you tried to use custom reports. But none of the 'user friendly' Mac packages actually do what I want to do. Maybe I'll have a look at Gnucash under Ubuntu.
Which gives me an idea for a new thread
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