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SolydXK
I received a Full Circle preview of the upcoming issue. Having never seen SolydXK, I gave it a try.
I tried the LMDE conversion script, which failed for me, I had Mate edition with Package Manager installed “KDE Full” and thought it could go. Thanks to backups, no problem. I ended up installing SolydXK KDE. For my old Dell D600 laptop, it is getting hard to find a distribution that will run on a Pentium M. It runs and runs well. I had a very smooth install, and it will do PAE and non-PAE as needed, apparently. Very polished for a new distro.
My biggest surprise was when I clicked the add printer icon under “System Settings”. The usual options appeared in the left column, to my surprise the wireless printer, a Brother HL-3075, was at the top of the list. I clicked it and kept hitting the next button and all looked good. I clicked “print test page” and was prepared to manually edit the address.
The printer worked first time and I am surprised. Linux is all I use, and that printer has been very easy to get going, well, except in Windows 7 – which takes a long time and required a USB connection. No Linux PC ever did, but most required additional setup tweaks.
I recommend this distribution to anyone who needs support for an older processor like the Pentium M. By the way, all desktop eye candy, even “wobbly windows” work just fine. Great job SolydXK team!
Mike Lewis
Media Server
I would like to see an article on how to setup a media server with Ubuntu to stream media to the other computers on the network and android phone.
Jorge Martinez
Ronnie says: if there’s anyone out there with the knowledge of how to create such a media server, please send your article to ronnie@fullcirclemagazine.org.
Gord notes: see the Q&A in this issue.
What, No Link?
How come the email sent out to subscribers about issue 72 has no link to your website (that I could find)? There are two links to other websites, why not yours? In order to download issue 72 from your website, I had to start up my browser, use Goggle to learn your website address, and finally go to your page with the current issue. Or would you rather subscribers use the link in your message to issuu.com/fullcirclemagazine instead??
Lou
Ronnie says: Surely I'm allowed one slip-up in six years?
LibreOffice Special Editions
I thoroughly enjoyed the LibreOffice Special Edition Vol.1 (Parts 1-7 from FCM#46 - FCM#52).
I appreciate your service of providing the whole world with the opportunity of reading FullCircle for free, and would also like to thank Elmer Perry for his efforts.
Please can we have more of this useful content for both LibreOffice as well as Ubuntu?
Paul
Ronnie says: Yes, there will be more special editions in the coming months. Robin (who creates the special edition PDF's) has already created LibreOffice Vol.3 and will shortly be creating several other volumes, so keep an eye on the FCM site for more.
For Beginners
I'm a 64 yr-old who has decided to leave Microsoft Windows and I came upon a Linux article in the August issue of Maximum PC magazine.
In Sept. I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04LTS; it sat on my desk until 3 weeks ago when I installed it. In the software Center I found a listing for the Second Edition Users Manual and found a link to your Magazine which I have been reading.
My question is would it be possible for you or possibly someone else to write a 1 or 2 page spread just for us beginners, telling us in plain english how to do updates, move around the file system, and to download certain programs?
LT Day
Ronnie says: any takers for this article idea? In the meantime, I’d point beginners to the Closing Windows series that ran in several issues of FCM; it showed Windows users where to find things in various Ubuntu flavors and discussed updates and applications.