Comments | vakkotaur: Linux distribution choices and an image editing issue

vakkotaur

Linux distribution choices and an image editing issue

Jun 14, 2007 22:05

I'm still considering what to replace Fedora Core with. There is the new Fedora which supposedly is a bit more usable, but likely still has the silly codec issues. And there is Ubuntu which has a very good ease of use, overall. There is Freespire which is now Ubuntu based and supposedly has no codec problems. There is also Wolvix, which is a ( Read more... )

linux, libexif, ubuntu, gimp, fedora, photographs, computers, freespire, wolvix

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fiddle_dragon June 15 2007, 03:26:01 UTC

fwiw - I'm finding that the things that annoyed me with Ubuntu seem to annoy me less with Kubuntu...and maybe because synaptic pisses me off but adept maybe not as much ( ... )

vakkotaur June 15 2007, 04:07:49 UTC

Is Feisty using libexif 0.6.15? Or is there an easy way to get that version of libexif into place?

I've been running Xubuntu on one of the desktop machines (933 Mhz) and overall I like it. I know Kubuntu would be a bit heavier, but then it'd be on the faster Athlon box. I haven't tried to tweak XFCE so that text entry form spaces (like the Google search box) are gray and not white, which is the one thing I find I don't like about XFCE. I put up with that on the laptop (Wolvix) as the laptop doesn't have many cycles to spare.

Hrm, one other thing. Have you gotten WPA to work on your laptop? That's something I have not managed and would really like to.

fiddle_dragon June 15 2007, 04:48:55 UTC

Looks like it uses 0.6.13-5ubuntu0.1 - so a modified version of .13 BUT - that's libexif12 - I didn't see libexif just by itself listed as an option in adept. It may just be that I don't have a source available that has it. Which would be the answer to your next question.

For example - I like Beryl, however the Beryl that's packaged and in the Ubuntu repositories is older than what's currently out there - so rather than deal with the older version, I have the official beryl repositories listed in my sources, and just grab it from there.

For your third question. We don't use WPA here - we use WEP, but absolutely yes - I <3 my wireless laptop...it was a little painful simply because I was using a really new card on a really old laptop so the drivers and the hardware, they did not want to go together...but we did eventually get it working.

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vakkotaur June 15 2007, 03:47:00 UTC

I'd rather not try anything with Vista.

The nuclear option, perhaps... yakko June 15 2007, 05:41:44 UTC

I'm using Feisty at work (comes with libexif12 0.6.13). Here's what I did, basically:

* Create a personal repository in /usr/src/debs
- add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb file:/usr/src debs/

* Make a new deb from the source (here's how) except took the following deviations ( ... )

yakko June 15 2007, 05:45:53 UTC

Also, the equivalent to "su -" in Ubuntu and others with no root user, even though it's somewhat an approximation, is "sudo -s"

You just supply your user password, and you get root's environment (but not root's $HOME for some odd reason; the HOME is that of the user you "sudo -s"'d from).