Any other linux users here? :)

[C-Man]

I installed Slackware in a VM the other day. It was surprisingly easy.

 

[Cachook]

Mint IS Ubuntu. Without the Unity fail.

Thanks.

 

[Cachook]

HAs anyone ever tried Mageia?

 

[C-Man]

It's not bad. It's basically Mandrake Linux.

 

[veritasVII]

I've worked mainly with Debian, and ArchLinux. I've done DIY Linux, and that was fun... but Debian is my main OS on my zenbook, and CrunchBang on my Netbook. . . Come to think of it I also use Raspbian ( Debians ARM spin used on the Raspberry Pi ). I prefer not to use a GUI, unless web browsing. For that I like a simple KDE.

 

[Sketcher]

Posting here from a Crunchbang live CD. Trying to save my hard drives from my motherboard.

 

[Cachook]

Posting on Mageia, but run into the same issues with the wifi chipset. CAn someone explain how to run Flash?

 

[C-Man]

What chipset is it?
As for Flash, you should be able to install it from the software manager, no problem.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Posting on Mageia, but run into the same issues with the wifi chipset. CAn someone explain how to run Flash?

The wiki pages for Mageia is usually a good place to start,

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flash_Plugin_Installation

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_wireless_networking

Mageia has a pretty good community so try their forums too.

 

[FreedByte]

The wiki pages for Mageia is usually a good place to start,

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flash_Plugin_Installation

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_wireless_networking

Mageia has a pretty good community so try their forums too.

I like to stay as free as possible so I use lightspark. It is very buggy though so I also use Youtube Flash to HTML5 addon for firefox which lets you watch almost all youtube videos (instead of just those stored as WebM) without flash (using HTML5). Apparently Youtube stores a "secret" WebM copy of every video that is stored as h.264, and this extension makes youtube load the WebM copy instead of the h.264 copy so that the HTML5 player can play it.

~$ vrms

No non-free or contrib packages installed!  rms would be proud.

 

[Cachook]

This is an Asus U56E laptop with an Intel chipset. It has not worked with Ubuntu or Mageia yet.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

~$ vrms

No non-free or contrib packages installed!  rms would be proud.

Ah a Debian user I see

 

[EphesiaNZ]

This is an Asus U56E laptop with an Intel chipset. It has not worked with Ubuntu or Mageia yet.

Well, for Ubuntu/Mint you could take a look at this,

Linux Mint Forums • View topic - [SOLVED] Asus U56E Wifi Not Connecting Mint 14

Looks like the wireless is the Intel Wimax chipset.

 

[Cachook]

Well, for Ubuntu/Mint you could take a look at this,

Linux Mint Forums • View topic - [SOLVED] Asus U56E Wifi Not Connecting Mint 14

Looks like the wireless is the Intel Wimax chipset.

WiMax indeed, and that did not work, as the root password never worked, hence a migration to (albeit KDE, and that might soon become GNOME) Mageia. Perhaps their forums are worth a shot if no one else on this board is a Mageia user.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

I like to stay as free as possible so I use lightspark. It is very buggy though so I also use Youtube Flash to HTML5 addon for firefox...

For a non-flash option I like the combination of mplayer and youtube-dl to stream a video,

mplayer -ontop -cookies -cookies-file ./cookie.txt $(youtube-dl -gf 34 --cookies ./cookie.txt "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc30UVB3oMs")

The latest update for youtube-dl handles heaps more video sites too - see this

 

[Qyöt27]

Or you know, libquvi.

mpv http://youtu.be/vKspf06XuaQ

(the strange formatting for the URL is only because it'll try - and fail - to parse it into an embedded video if I don't do that; carry on)

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Or you know, libquvi.

mpv http://youtu.be/vKspf06XuaQ

(the strange formatting for the URL is only because it'll try - and fail - to parse it into an embedded video if I don't do that; carry on)

mpv looks worth a try. Tried cclive before which uses libquvi but never seemed to work for me.

 

[FreedByte]

Ah a Debian user I see

Nope just Ubuntu stripped of non-free software

 

[FreedByte]

This is an Asus U56E laptop with an Intel chipset. It has not worked with Ubuntu or Mageia yet.

Check out the workaround that EphesiaNZ gave. The chipset probably has no compatibility with any linux distro, so you'll need to find a workaround.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Nope just Ubuntu stripped of non-free software

Ah, you will be better with Debian Sid and something like XFCE as it's free from the start and will be as up to date as Ubuntu.

What will be your position with Ubuntu once they adopt Mir as this may take them into non-free territory anyway?