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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
SolydXK
Ayant reçu un aperçu du numéro du Full Circle à venir et n'ayant jamais vu SolydXK, je l'ai essayé.
J'ai essayé le script de conversion LMDE, qui a échoué pour moi, bien que j'aie pensé que cela puisse fonctionner, puisque j'avais l'édition Mate de « KDE Full » avec le Gestionnaire de paquets et installé. Pas de problème, grâce aux sauvegardes. J'ai finalement installé SolydXK KDE sur mon vieux portable Dell D600. Il devient difficile de trouver une distribution qui veut bien se lancer sur un Pentium M. Mais celui-ci fonctionne et fonctionne très bien. L'installation s'est passé sans problème aucun et il fera apparemment PAE et non-PAE au besoin. C'est très soigné pour une nouvelle distrib.
Ma plus grande surprise est venue quand j'ai cliqué sur l'icône Ajouter une imprimante sous « Paramètres système ». Les options habituelles se sont affichées à gauche et, à mon étonnement, l'imprimante sans fil, une Brother HL-3075 figurait en haut de la liste. J'ai cliqué dessus, puis, de façon répétitive, sur le bouton Suivant et tout avait l'air comme il faut. J'ai cliqué sur « Imprimer une page test », mais j'étais prêt à éditer l'adresse à la main.
L'imprimante fonctionnait dès le départ et je suis étonné. Je n'utilise que Linux et cette imprimante-là est habituellement très facile à faire fonctionner, sauf sous Windows 7 - qui prend énormément de temps et voulait une connexion USB. Aucun PC Linux ne l'a jamais demandé, mais la plupart nécessitait des ajustements de configuration.
Je recommande cette distribution à quiconque a besoin de la prise en charge pour un processeur vieillissant comme le Pentium M. Oh, et puis tous les effets visuels du bureau, même les « wobbly windows » (les fenêtres gélatineuses) fonctionnent à merveille. Bon boulot, l'équipe SolydXK !
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.