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Thread ID: 120619 2011-09-17 06:26:00 Transitioning from Windows to Linux. Woohoo! baabits (15242) PC World Chat
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1231944 2011-09-18 20:01:00 Funny though, Ubuntu now comes with a 'configuration editor' which looks suspiciously like regedit. I have no idea what it actually edits, config files or something else... knowing Ubuntu it will probably be their own weird proprietary thing.If you're referring to what I think, it's the gconf editor - Gnome apps have used this config database for years.


About 10 years ago a power failure would most likely destroy an ext2 partition, NTFS and FAT32 took so much crap more and survived :pEven ten years ago, there were much better options available than ext2. That's even more true today - a modern Linux filesystem is generally a lot more resilient than NTFS, and pretty much anything can top FAT.


Looks like it has an XML backend. Unusual concept. Wikipedia is a bit harsh about it:
Traditional CLI (Command Line Interface) power users of GNOME have criticized it as an excuse to over-simplify the user interface and design for the lowest common denominator. - source (en.wikipedia.org)

Mind you, CLI power users probably never go any higher than run level 3. :pPower users just don't tend to run Gnome (in most cases, there are always exceptions), unelss they're happy to live with the defaults.

Note that runlevels have nothing to do with the GUI... and on Debian-based systems, which Ubuntu is, the standard multiuser runlevel is 2.

Regarding the comments above about things breaking - in my experience Ubuntu is one of the most easily-broken distros available, and is not very well maintained - stability generally suffers for the sake of features and release times. Unless you intend to do image-based upgrades every time, prepare for some pain along the way. 		Erayd (23)
1231945 2011-09-18 20:57:00 Note that runlevels have nothing to do with the GUI... and on Debian-based systems, which Ubuntu is, the standard multiuser runlevel is 2.Guess I am showing my Red Hat background and lack of familiarity with Debian based distros. :p

Red Hat/Fedora has runlevel 3 as text based only - no GUI. 		Jen (38)
1231946 2011-09-18 21:17:00 However, most interesting of all is:

sudo wget web.lib.sun.ac.za

Why say its interesting ?? ( serious) its only the location of the files on a site / their server web.lib.sun.ac.za

The last date it was modified according to the site was 07-Aug-2011 		wainuitech (129)
1231947 2011-09-18 21:23:00 But don't feel bad, the Ubuntu devs always manage to break more things than they should anyway.

I would never install anything on Ubuntu unless it specifically tells you which version it's for either (because of the way Ubuntu changes all the damn time) Thems the breaks :D -- I was only playing about killing time. Nothing wrong with ubuntu, although with the regular changes its not surprising things get broken. 		wainuitech (129)
1231948 2011-09-18 22:00:00 Why say its interesting ?? ( serious) its only the location of the files on a site / their server web.lib.sun.ac.za

The last date it was modified according to the site was 07-Aug-2011 Ok now I'm more confused by catos answer of { Interesting --sudo wget web.lib.sun.ac.za :confused:

Seems pretty straight forward to me - I confess I'm no Linux expert, far from it, but breaking down the commands
after looking them up on google:

sudo =is a Linux command used to execute programs as the root, or "super user." sudo is a shortening of "super user do."

wget = is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

and the address is where its getting the file(s) from

So the command is being told to work as a super user, with wget obtaining the file from that site.

Why is that "interesting" please :confused: 		wainuitech (129)
1231949 2011-09-18 22:03:00 Themes the breaks :D

Fixed that for ya ;) 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1231950 2011-09-18 22:06:00 Because a .sh is usually a bash script file.

First of all, why does it need to download the file as root. It should download it as a local user, then run it as root if it needs the escalated privileges.

To see what its doing, just open the .sh file in notepad / wordpad. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1231951 2011-09-18 22:18:00 Thnaks for the answer chill, why it does it like it does -- I dunno, as mentioned I dont know a lot about linux. when you run the other commands

sudo chmod 0755 ~/win7-setup.sh

~/win7-setup.sh


It then downloads the package, a window opens asking advising to press OK, you see a whole lot of activity in the terminal window, then finally you type in

setup-win7-theme

And it does the rest. ( on 10.10 it worked, 11.04 hung)

It actually does a very good job of making ubuntu look like W7, including the start /search function, the control panel is laid out very easy to follow, nothing like the ubuntu original.

So basically its the interface of Windows with the functions of Ubuntu. Anyone changing from Windows to Ubuntu wouldn't hardly notice. 		wainuitech (129)
1231952 2011-09-18 23:44:00 First of all, why does it need to download the file as root.

Exactly.

wainuitech: It didn't work in 11.04 because gnomenu is not compatible with 11.04. 		Cato (6936)
1231953 2011-09-19 05:58:00 Guess I am showing my Red Hat background and lack of familiarity with Debian based distros. :p Yup :D. Fedora's a pretty good distro though, so nothing wrong with that decision.


Red Hat/Fedora has runlevel 3 as text based only - no GUI.By default yes, but if you want to have runlevel 3 start a GUI, there's nothing stopping you - a runlevel is just a collection of services that init will start / stop when the runlevel is entered. If you want, you can even run a completely runlevel-less system, although you'll need to replace the default init for that. 		Erayd (23)
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