DrBob
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DrBob
Email: MailTo(dr.bobik+ubuntu AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)
I am a recent user of Ubuntu Linux, though with several years of experience with Debian GNU/Linux.
My current Ubuntu machine is an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMi, running breezy-amd64. Feel free to contact me by email if you want to share your experiences, especially concerning running Ubuntu on this specific hardware.
I prefer KDE to Gnome, so while I used a Ubuntu install disk, one of the first things I did post-install was `apt-get install kubuntu-desktop'.
Questions
Notes on a couple of things I haven't figured out (yet). Some of them might yet lead to bug reports.
- How to prevent Kscd from popping up every time I insert an audio CD into my drive
(I prefer to use amaroK, in spite of its silly name
Other than uninstalling Kscd of course. - How to customize kdm's login screen - KDE's usual settings module for kdm doesn't seem to work in Kubuntu.
- There should be some simple way to dump downloaded podcasts (mp3 files) to my portable player (flash drive) from amaroK, perhaps it's so well hidden I didn't find it. Instead, I figured out where amaroK stores thoses files (deep down under ~/.kde/) - but I suspect many users would have a problem doing that.
- Copying one particular podcast mp3 file (via the file manager) to my player's flash drive was failing mysteriously; I went around checking and re-checking permissions for a while, until I realized someone had cleverly used a colon character (':') in the filename, and the likely reason for the failure was that this isn't allowed on FAT filesystems (am I correct about this?)