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        <title><![CDATA[Just for the record]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Until you've compiled your own kernel you've never really run Linux. True fact! Now nut up and build a kernel. If you do it the Debian way there is nothing to worry about. Why I'll even give you a link to the instructions:http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s06.html.enYou run Ubuntu so the Debian way is the right way.All of this means that you can download kernels from kernel.org and support later hardware than the version distribution you use. Baby steps though build the kernel packaged with your distro first, don't even try to configure it right away. Bite off more than you can chew and you will choke! Your deepest secret fears will all be realized and you will brick your PC. Take precautions and it'll never happen though. Hint: Pay special attention to how you set a revision number, doing that is the safety net secret.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:41:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apple sucks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[nt]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:57:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are you talking about?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been running Linux for over 17 years now and I've no idea what you are carrying on about? Desktop search? Ah, if you don't like find try locate? Run updatedb first if you need the freshest results, but be warned building the index does take some time.I've used the Windows search feature and it is **** on a bull worthless compared to Linux. Yeah, I need a dog waving a flashlight around, then finding me nothing.While my opinion on evangelizing Linux may not be popular it is pragmatic, and it is simply this, those that should run Linux do. The rest we need not worry about. I feel we're actually better off without them in fact.Not every user counts in the plus column, not hardly. I wouldn't even put you there based on reading your comment.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:55:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't because]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I slake my thirst from the wellspring, Debian. OK maybe not directly from it, but it is what I start with to brew my special brand of hootch. Right now I'm running the Trinity Desktop on Squeeze. Elite!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:43:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, that ain't gonna happen]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[But what could happen is you could learn enough about Linux so you can accomplish what you wish for yourself. I'd respect that a lot more than you begging others to do for you what you can do for yourself.So until you've developed skills with real software tools you'll just have to amuse yourself with what toys are handed to you. I'm sorry but this is how it is.One avenue that could potentially net you what you desire is perhaps this:http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.htmlUbuntu does use the Debian package management system. It is quite rich and flexible. I suggest you try to gain a working understanding of it. Once mastered fine grained control may be achieved over configurations.I wish you good luck.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:37:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[please  continue support for lucid for 5 more years]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I absolutely love my lucid desktop machine.These newer desktop environments are just toys.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[edwardtisdale]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:31:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Unity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unity doesn't seem so bad now that the mouse works, however the time when the mouse didn't work sent me eventually to Bodhi Linux, and I prefer Enlightenment to Old GNOME, haven't really worked with New GNOME or Unity enough to learn them.    So for all you Unity haters out there, why not give Bodhi Linux or Xubuntu a shot?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[conspiritech@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:32:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Take a second look]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I could be mistaken, but it did look like to me poll numbers were posted with the chart. At least after you voted. So.. you should be able to get some indication at least.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pdxmusl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:44:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Or not to Unity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's somewhat why I tried to stick with it... I figured, we are heading there. I can either be dragged kicking and screaming or buck up and try it. But it still doesn't change the fact that the first few iterations of unity were practically useless and just painful... like getting a limb slowly cut off or eaten alive and no &quot;feel good&quot; pills painful.Point is, I don't hate it for the direction it's going. I hate it for what it is. I gigantic waist of space and effort. Hopefully some of the changes to 12.04 will resolve at least some of it's problems.The problem with some of these drives is the group think mentality. It's one of the reasons we were stuck with junk like Windows for years. Someone out there thought it was a good idea. Others followed that fool without thinking. So.. yeah.. just because apple does it. And just because 5 people out there think apple is great doesn't mean it is. The question is, will we learn to just tolerate unity and apple like UI's like we learned to tollerate windows, or are they truly ground breaking.  So far, i see us learning to tolerate it. I have yet to see ground breaking. I hope that changes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pdxmusl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:41:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[me too]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm still on 11.04 now. That didn't give me much trouble other than my usb wireless g adapter. 11.10 solved that problem, but the two times I tried to install it, it completely hosed my system and I had to rebuild my box. Or... rather... it ended up being easier to do it that way. So, I hear you. I plan on waiting a little bit as well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pdxmusl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:31:29 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Desktop Search]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You're obviously having better luck than I am with desktop search.The default seems to be a front end to 'find' which is much too slow, and all of the desktop indexing packages I have tried both work and integrate.Lack of a reliable, integrated desktop search is the one thing that stops me evangelising Linux to my non-IT friends.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Johnson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:11:01 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hate Unity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Been using Ubuntu for years - loved it to bits till they nerfed the interface.However, the latter (unilateral change) made me jump ship to Linux Mint and I'm thoroughly impressed; wish I'd started using it ages ago - great implementation, very stable (unlike Ubuntu 11.10)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Odipides]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:30:38 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am already Using 12.04]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For the last 15 day i have been using Ubuntu 12.04 daily builds and i am happy with it. I can even boot into an old 512MB Acer lap to get a happily working machine. I see no problem in unity, apart from our difficulty to change our old way.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sanyiidh@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:16:39 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Done]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When you flag, the mods get an email.It might take an hour or two, but the offending message (and sometimes, the poster) will be gone as soon as one of us can get to it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:12:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spam Alert]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[delete the previous post!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[d graham]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:07:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'll Stay K]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been using Kubuntu for almost 6 years.  I don't see anything in Unity to make me switch from KDE]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gerry_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:25:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[12.04 is so interesting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was chatting with a guy on IRC last night that updated his system and could no longer start X Window. I told him all he could do was keep on updating it and hope they fixed whatever they'd broken.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[paulfx1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:16:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[a quicklist editor would work for me!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When  first using Unity in 11.04 I had my doubts and after some days I went back to the old ways. Not my wife! I gave here Unity and she just started using it, no comment, no complaint. Upon her request I found out how to add quicklists to the launcher and once she got the taste for that I had to add a dozen or so: Open Gmail directly, launch Chrome in incognito mode, go directly to her pictures folder, all in one click. I even mixed native and Wine applications in one quicklist and she cannot tell the difference.When 11.10 came I also moved completely to Unity. I got my own set of very effective quicklists, I'm getting the hang of using the dash and it's search capabilities and I became very efficient launching apps without taking my fingers from the keyboard.However: creating these quicklists and making sure the right icons are shown in the launcher is a burden. I sure hope MyUnity will take that away. If that's true I can easily forget Gnome.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[water-man]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:09:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How about Ubuntu for Android?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Check this out:http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/250356/ubuntu_for_android_will_bring_the_desktop_to_your_phone.html]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aroc]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, just Apple]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you don't create the expectation, you must follow it. Users come to expect certain things. In this case, Apple has a lock on the optimal UI. Not to say it's perfect - it's just better than everything else. I have OS X ahead by alot.Like it or not, all desktops are in a race against one another, not just themselves. Humans are in the stands, envying one another over this very subject.  Why do you think Windows took the path it did with Win-Vista/7? Because Apple proved out a theory. Doesn't the Droid look suspiciously iPhone like (minus some annoyances)? There's a reason for that.These competitors know that Apple has tainted the pool of user expectation and now they have to keep up in order to stay in the game. I look forward to the day when I'm sitting in the public library and a Mac user looks over my shoulder and sees Gnome 3 on my desktop and says, &quot;Oh, cool&quot;; then the role of envied to envier changes and Apple has some work to do.Until then, we're all in catchup mode with Apple.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[todd_dsm]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:18:13 -0800</pubDate>
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