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Fraxos

5:48 PM on 29 October, 2009

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Really excited about this. Anything to stay clear of MS..

p.s You seem to have mixed 9.04 and 9.10 in the main area of the article.

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Gordon394

5:53 PM on 29 October, 2009

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@Fraxos - thanks. It's being one of those days!

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MSIC

6:28 PM on 29 October, 2009

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Please do a review of the NBR - am keen to read your views, i love it, and want to see the NBR's profile raised!

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Hans Gruber

7:42 PM on 29 October, 2009

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No checksums for 9.10 yet then?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes

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Pbryanw

7:49 PM on 29 October, 2009

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If you're missing icons in your Places and System menu after the upgrade (like I was), then be aware that this is new feature of Gnome. To re-enable them:

1. System > Preferences > Appearance

2. Go to the 'Interface' tab.

3. Check "Show Icons In Menus".

Thanks go to: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/missing-system-icons-ubuntu-karmic.html

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RazorA

8:07 PM on 29 October, 2009

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Looking forward to your review on this. This could be what my 5 year old laptop has been waiting for.

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xbrumster

8:38 PM on 29 October, 2009

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has anyone used this system? Can u create dual-boot alongside win7? Howz the drivers compatibility issues?

would like to try it on my netbook

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Pbryanw

12:05 AM on 30 October, 2009

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I don't think Trusted Reviews have reviewed a Linux distribution before? I wonder if that's because of the small market share, or if there are other reasons. Ubuntu 9.10 would be a good place to start I think.

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Zeus

8:01 AM on 30 October, 2009

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@xbrumster yes you can I'm doing exactly that on 3 laptops, one of which is a Samsung NC10 Netbook.

hopefully you've already partitioned the drive. I did run into a slight caveat which was I wanted my partition in ext3 formated to a 128 bit inode count so the ext2IFS program on windows can see the linux partition. The program does not support the newer ext4 system.Ubuntu can read ntfs windows drives easily, but not the other way around. But if you're not cared the installer even picks up that windows 7 is already installed and the one option is to install side by side.

If you want to know more about how to get things working via the ext2ifs and I'll post another comment with instructions.

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MSIC

10:57 AM on 30 October, 2009

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@xbrumster, yes i also do this on one of my laptops, (i dual boot with WinXP actually). If you want to test it out for a while, there is a really simple and fantastic option called 'Wubi'. It comes as a standard part of any Ubuntu disc image, so download 9.10, burn the ISO to a disc, and then simply run the disc whilst in Windows. Select the 'Wubi' installer and follow the on-screen instructions, and within 20 minutes or so you'll be able to restart your machine but have the option to boot in to Ubuntu or Windows. The significant advantages of doing this is 1) its simple 2) it's very easy to undo later (you just uninstall as you would any windows program). The downside is that because it's being done on NTFS it's not quite as quick, so you dont get the full speed benefits.

There is also the LiveCD option too that doesnt even install anything at all, but it is an even slower way of trying Ubuntu out.

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Simon

11:53 AM on 30 October, 2009

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@xbrumsrter As far as i remember setting up Ubuntu onto a machine that has Windows on is really easy and does all the partitioning for you as part of the set up.

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Hans Gruber

5:59 PM on 30 October, 2009

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Well the hashes for 9.10 are up now for anyone who cares.

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xbrumster

10:31 PM on 30 October, 2009

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wow, great feedback thx guys. I'll give it a try on my netbook over the weekend and see how it goes. I find win7 get bloated over time and if I am only using it for the net, then Ubuntu is clearly a better choice.

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