[Nottingham] ubuntu 8:10 - the 'yawn' version

[James Smith]

I have also recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell XPS M1530 which i am
having a few problems with, i have noticed my hard drive clicking which it
has never done before and didnt when Windows vista was installed. does
anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
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> 2008/11/5 <brian at brianpickford.co.uk>
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>> I've recently switched to Ubuntu from suse in the first instance for my
>> mythtv box. I had quite a bit of 'geting used to' to get over, but stuck
>> with it. I've now installed it on my eeepc that I use at work
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>> The things that set this distro apart IMO are the community support and
>> the lack of build from source to get obscure things working.
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>> I'll be sticking with Ubuntu considering I've now got the blue-tooth to
>> phone and gcaldaemon stuff working. The desktop switcher is great eye candy
>> and useful to boot, CIFS mount to our windows 2003 server works well.
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>> Just strugeling with the caps lock over tsclient now ...
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>> Still plenty to praise and not much to disparage.
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>> Cheers all,
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>> Brian
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>> I think Ubuntu 8.10 is absolutely amazing, a great improvement over the
>> previous Ubuntu releases (which were already amazing). I have tried out
>> LOADS of distros, but always keep going back to Ubuntu - there just is
>> nothing like it, other distros just seem to be playing catch-up, basically.
>> The NetworkManager is greatly improved (3G modem support, etc.), the way the
>> shutdown button is integrated with the user switching button, guest account
>> login, make live usb disk option, not to mention the legendary darkroom
>> theme.
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>> If you're gonna use kde, go all the way and use opensuse/windows... ;-)
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>> Robin
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> James
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James
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