Ubuntu alternatives?

There's Mint4Win which is analogous.

 

Ahh, it's on the LiveCD..too bad it isn't on their DVD. But thank you for pointing that out, I might have better luck with them.

 

I didn't use Mint4Win. I went for the full, dual-boot install. It's been about a month now and I haven't needed to use "the other boot".

By the time the next Mint comes around, I hope to be "qualified" enough to do the single-boot install .

Plus, I've decided to stay with just the one distro because it works for me.

 

I've never done a manual dual-boot before, that's why I went for the "noob" route

 

Hey! I'm a total noob as well but I took a deep breath and jumped (with my eyes open = after backing up all essentials and knowing that Mint could read all my "other boot" spreadsheets, docs, music, etc.)

 

After getting used, i'm really liking Unity desktop...

 

I have been rocking XUbuntu for a while. My main setup is normally Arch linux or Gentoo be warned though as both require setup from scratch. Arch Linux is easier because you just basically run the install script and "apt-get install" everything you want while gentoo you actually have to partition the hard drive and compile sources from scratch before even getting to add anything.

EDIT: Sorry not apt-get it's pacman on Arch

 

Is this issue (which is a serious one, IMHO) solved in the meantime?

 

use lubuntu. it`s the lighter and cleaner ubuntu.

 

if i have hardware dual core or dual core + and ram 1gb or + my distro would be

1. Scientific Linux / Centos
2. kubuntu or Linux Mint gnome
3. Open Suse
4. Linux Mint Debian or Ubuntu LTS

if i have old hardware p4 ...ram 512 .....etc

i go for


1.Xubuntu/ Linuxmint xfce/ PclinuxOS Phinx
2. Puppy Linux/ Fedora xfce

also like to add i definitely try this distro it give always rock solid whisperings but i never get change of testing it

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vector

also

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1725

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=306967

 

Ubuntu for normal PC, for low powered ones, Lubuntu and as an alternate, I truly miss the amazingly fast rolling release from Germany aka sidux, sadly it died due to petty politics among the developers.

 

It still exists under the name aptosid.

 

also like to add puppylinux and pclinuxos xfce (phonix or Phinx) can copy to ram during booting time if you have 512 or 1 gb ram try it seriously it rocks

 

Current release 2-20011 (

 

So? The news about this release is from 2011-07-13 - see the Release Notes.

 

What I would like to know is whether Oracle java jre-7 and jre-6u27 works with firefox 6.0 (&6.01) on Kubuntu 64 bit 11.04.
As part of familiarising myself with Kubuntu (which I am running in Vbox), I have tried this to no avail. Please see https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1930157&postcount=44 for further details. Thanks (in advance)

 

Ocky, are there some specific sites you have in mind re. JRE? If they don't need a sign-in, I'd like to look at them to see how this IcedTea plug-in works in place of JRE (for the browser).

BTW, www.java.com thinks that I have "Java version: Version 6 Update 22".

 

Java on latest FF.

 

vasa1,

java may be set to 6u22. Check this.. sudo update-alternatives --config java

@ linuxforall,

Is that in Ubuntu 64 bit ? I was talking about Kubuntu 64bit 11.04 in Vbox .. and jre-6u27 or jre-7


One things for sure, don't bother with openjdk - it won't work with my main browser being Opera 11.51 (confirmed in their forums).

 

Ocky its Ubuntu 11.04 x64, don't think my little netbook can handle Kubuntu, my 8 core desktop runs Kubuntu but LTS flavor.

 

This is what I got:

 

vasa1,
That's because the latest version of openjdk is what you have viz. version ..22 check in Synaptic to confirm. It's probably been patched as I can't imagine that they simply left it.

(Sorry, thought at first you meant Oracle java)

 

Not to worry! I now very rarely need to access sites running Java.