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| Newer page: | version 26 | Last edited on Saturday, May 5, 2007 10:27:52 am | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
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Notes for [Ubuntu].
Also see UbuntuBreezyNotes, and UbuntuDapperNotes.
-!!! Installation
+!! How to run [KDE] on Ubuntu or [GNOME] on Kubuntu without a reinstall
+
+Simply do one the following:
+
+<verbatim>
+sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop # to install the Kubuntu KDE desktop
+sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop # to install the Xubuntu XFce desktop
+sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop # to install the Ubuntu GNOME desktop
+</verbatim>
+
+After that, log out, and at the login screen, pick [KDE], [GNOME] or [XFce] from the ''Sessions'' box as you prefer.
!! Resizing NTFS partitions on install
Ubuntu supports NTFS partition resizing during the install process. To do this, select the partition you wish to resize, and enter a size that is smaller than the existing size. It will shrink the partition down to the new size, and leave empty space afterwards.
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* media-related codecs (win32codecs/gstreamer-ffmpeg for WMV support, [DVD] CSS)
* [Java] runtime
* Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugins
-It has mostly been made out of date by [EasyUbuntu|http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/].
+It has mostly been made out of date by [EasyUbuntu | http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/].
!!Skype doesn't work
Skype doesn't play nicely with the default sound setup in Ubuntu hoary as it uses the old style OSS methods and requires exclusive access to /dev/dsp. If you have a sound card that does hardware mixing things seem to be significantly nicer, but if you've stuck on something like an IBM T42 Laptop without hardware mixing you'll have problems. There are several solutions.
