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Re: Introduction
« Reply #105 on Feb 4, 2012, 8:15am »

Hi!

First: Thanx for Saline, its great!

About me: I m german, living in sweden.

Using Ubuntu since "Dapper" (maybe since 5 years). For 6 month ago I changed to LUbuntu because i don t like Unity - and because me and my computer are not getting younger..

My question:
I can t find Codecs in the paket manager, there is no "extra-restricted area" (with plugins etc) for installing.. that s why i cant hear MP3 s.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #106 on Feb 4, 2012, 8:20am »

as root, in a console, while online:
# installrestrictedmultimedia

[it's in /usr/local/bin along with the AutoUpdate script. rh.]

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #107 on Feb 4, 2012, 3:50pm »

Feb 4, 2012, 8:20am, Richard wrote:

as root, in a console, while online:
# installrestrictedmultimedia

[it's in /usr/local/bin along with the AutoUpdate script. rh.]

Ah, I was wondering about that too. It would be nice to have some sort of new user FAQ thread with useful common commands.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #108 on Feb 4, 2012, 5:35pm »

Codecs were available during installation, the Manual is also in German telling you where that part is.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #109 on Feb 5, 2012, 6:04am »

Its working fine now, thank you, @Richard!

Maybe I had that problem because I was installing it on a USB-stick with UNetbooting.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #110 on Feb 28, 2012, 4:27am »

Hello,

I live in Mumbai, India. I am an end user. No technical knowledge. Till now I have not tried anything other than Ubuntu and it's derivative.

Currently I have XP, Xubuntu 11.10 (bcos I love XFCE, Mint 12 + cinnamon, Pinguy 11.04 and Bodhi Linux 1.3, as a backpup system.

A couple of questions / suggestions:

1) default font does not look very sleek, please consider using Droid Sans

2) I love synapse and prefer to use over gnome-do. Sypanse is not in repos. How Do I install on Saline OS.

3) consider software-center (Unbranded Ubuntu software center) pre-instaled by default

Love to use XFCE distro based on Debian Stable.

I am in a process of making myself understand that older software does not mean they are useless. Work should get done.

I login in Ubuntu and Mint forums as @sunewbie

Thanks

Edit: Added more info.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #111 on Feb 28, 2012, 1:39pm »

welcome. you will no doubt get responses to your list of suggestions/questions, so let me be the first.

1) you can always change your default font
2) I don't think synapse(sypanse?) is in the repos.
3) packagekit will probably be the new package manager. have you tried packagesearch? its in the repos and like software center only much more feature rich.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #112 on Feb 28, 2012, 7:29pm »

The default font is used because it is easy to read. Some of us don't have such good eyes O-O

The plan is in fact to use the Packagekit GTK GUI instead of Synaptic for 2.x versions.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #113 on Feb 29, 2012, 1:03am »

Thank you bootflag and Anthony Nordquist

I know that fonts can be changed. I requested the author to consider Droid Sans - just a humble request

I am happy that I got a reply from Founder. Thank you.

synapse is a keyboard launcher

Never knew about 'Packagekit'. Repos has ubuntu's de-branded software-center. I am using Linux on more or less daily basis since one year, with Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. 9.1 was my first Linux Distro, which I upgraded to 10.04.

I am an End User, so not much R & D, specially after breaking my Ubuntu 10.04 while trying to install non-supported Deepin software center in Ubuntu 10.04. Was my stupid decision not to try anything weird in Virtualbox.

I always wanted to try debian, but 4.4 GB is too much for me. I have limited Broadband connection 5 GB monthly limit

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #114 on Feb 29, 2012, 1:38am »

Synapse will almost certainly be available to SalineOS 2.0, as I am sure it will make its way into Debian. In order to install it now you would have to compile it and all it's dependencies. Having looked into this, I can't recommend you subject yourself to such a thing. You can request a backport of synapse to the Debian backports mailing list, and if they make one for you, you would then be able to install it with the command apt-get install -t squeeze-backports synapse

If you just use it to launch applications you can hit Alt + F2 to get a run dialog, it doesn't have a search function, but it does have a history.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #115 on Feb 29, 2012, 2:27am »

Ok Thank you. gnome-do will work for now. I will also try to drop a request to backport mailing lists. I looked at the dev's launchpad page. It's compiled for Ubuntu. They are yet to port synapse to debian.

I have heard that Wheezy will be freezed in June. Debian sqeeze was freezed for 6 months.

Does this mean that Wheezy will be released in early 2013 and so will SalineOS 2.0.

btw, I was reading the manual. It is written in very simple language and is very informative, specially the last part having Linux CLI commands. It answered many questions.

Thanks for providing easy to use (and read

) manual. I really appreciate your effort.

Pardon my ignorance, I any not able to find a way to subscribe to posts. Generally, any forum supports 'thread subscription', an intimation by email, when a new reply is posted. I have bookmarked this post.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #116 on Feb 29, 2012, 3:14am »

Wheezy will be released when it is ready and SalineOS 2.0 will follow suit, but early 2013 is a fairly good guess. Synapse is in fact in Debian Wheezy, trying to install it on SalineOS will basically want to upgrade the entire system and backporting the package isn't a simple task.

Don't think there is a subscribe to thread option, but I might look into adding one in the future. The board is hosted and scripted by proboards, but I do have full access to view and modify the code if desired.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #117 on Feb 29, 2012, 3:51am »

Feb 29, 2012, 3:14am, Anthony Nordquist wrote:

It's unwise to loose debian 'Stable' advantage for a keyboard launcher, more importantly when you are not a geek.

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Don't think there is a subscribe to thread option, but I might look into adding one in the future. The board is hosted and scripted by proboards, but I do have full access to view and modify the code if desired.

I was having a look at proboards. It does have an option to subscribe to posts. It's labeled as 'Bookmark Notification'. This option is listed under 'Members' sections on the 'features' page

http://www.proboards.com/features

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Looks like 'Member' Section offers customization for forum members.

Thanks again.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #118 on Feb 29, 2012, 5:29am »

Hi,

I figured it how to have an email notification for bookmarked posts.

it is best shown in help section to have an email notification

http://help.proboards.com/forummoderation/index.html

you have to bookmark a thread / post

Then Go to 'Profile' page. Select 'Bookmark'.

It will show a list of posts which you have bookmarked.

On the right side, there is an option 'Manage Bookmarks'

Here you will find option to have either PM or email notification, when someone posts a reply to your books. You can set for Both Individual post and have a global setting for all posts

Initially, I did not new how to do it and I even went ahead to make a mock forum to get admin privilege. Later in the help section, I found this option

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #119 on Apr 19, 2012, 7:30pm »

Hello! Let me introduce myself.

I am parnote, and I'm a registered respiratory therapist in the Kansas City area. I've been a Linux user for the past 6 years or so, and much of the last 5 years with PCLinuxOS. I am an avid Xfce user, and have been the volunteer chief editor of The PCLinuxOS Magazine for the past 3 years. I have used most of the main desktops offered by PCLinuxOS, but my favorite is the Xfce flavor of PCLinuxOS, called Phoenix.

Within the last week, Phoenix is no longer considered an "official" PCLinuxOS release by the powers that be. Currently, only the KDE and LXDE versions of PCLinuxOS are considered "official" releases. As such, I'm searching for a new Xfce home. The maintainer of Phoenix and Phinx (the Xfce-mini release) is looking to rebase, but despite our friendship, I'm not especially fond of his front-runner choice for the new base.

I am impressed with what I've found with SalineOS. You have something very special here. Being used to an RPM based distro (PCLinuxOS), I'm eager to learn my way around a Debian based system, such as SalineOS. I neither want nor need "cutting edge" apps. I prefer, need and want a stable system, and SalineOS appears to deliver exactly that. If I wanted "cutting edge," I'd check out Fedora. Stable trumps cutting edge any time. Leave the bug hunts to someone else. Give me something that works and is proven.

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