<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Oh and by the way.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I received Mageia with my September issue of Linux Magazine, but I haven't been able to install it in a virtual.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I created the qcow2 compressible file and while the logical size is 10 GB, the actual physical size is just a few hundred MB to start with. Mageia reports the disk as a few hundred MB and refuses to install. I receive distros every month with the Magazine and this is the ONLY distro I've found that has a custom partition manager (diskdrake) that missidentifies the size of the virtual.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br></div><div>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>Twitter: rarsamx<br>http://rarsa.blogspot.com/ <br>An eclectic
collection of random thoughts<br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gary Walsh <gwalsh@notw.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:45:42 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 11.10<br></font><br>Ok, I just booted the Ubuntu 11.10 from the CD on my old Thinkpad T30.<br>It really, really, really sucks! I wasn't fond of past releases of<br>Ubuntu because of the relative lack of good graphical configuration<br>tools equivalent to Mandriva's Drakconf system and also because I am<br>more used to RPM based distros than Debian based
ones. However, I at<br>least found it reasonably usable. This release has a really poor<br>interface. There is an icon labelled workspaces, but it only has one<br>workspace and does not provide any way to add more. When I try to<br>connect to my wireless router, the Connect button is greyed out even<br>after typing in the password. I suppose that the Unity interface could<br>be tolerable on a low powered system like the one I am testing it on,<br>but there are better choices in window managers or distros like<br>Jolicloud that I have installed on this laptop.<br>-- <br>Gary Walsh <<a ymailto="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca" href="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca">gwalsh@notw.ca</a>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org"
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