Notes for Ubuntu. Also see UbuntuBreezyNotes.
You may have to manually add your ide chipset module to /etc/modules before ide-cd.
See 
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=19519 for more information
This is a known issue. see 
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659
From the changelog:
* debian/patches/02_ubuntuspatial.patch:
- changes to the spatial mode. Close the folders by default while browsing.
You can set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial" to get the
previous spatial behaviour.
See UbuntuRemastering.
See the UbuntuPostInstall shell script for installing things such as:
For playing DVDs, you will also need gstreamer0.8-a52dec (from Universe) to get the audio on some discs. Also, the de-CSS library from the post-install script above seems to be for debian sarge, not ubuntu hoary - you can get an ubuntu hoary version
from our software archive.
Download it and then install it with the command line
"sudo dpkg -ilibdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb".
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.
Stopping esd before starting skype works perfectly, but has the rather large downside of not being able to conveniently listen to mp3's etc while you have skype running. I have found the second method to be the most reliable and convenient.
Follow the instructions in this Ubuntu forums post to setup ALSA with dmix to provide software mixing support. Once you have done this you will be able to have both Skype and another application such as RhythmBox open at the same time, however only one of them will actually be able to generate sound at once, so.
To Place a call
To Answer an incoming call
Apart from having to close RhythmBox to get it to play again sometimes this solution seems to provide functionality equivalent to what you would expect to get with any other operating system.
Other Solutions
Google reveals a host of webpages that present other solutions for solving the Skype sound problems under Hoary (and other distributions). These seem to involve one of the following
polypaudioI didn't find either of these methods to work successfully on my hardware.
See UbuntuWirelessNetworkingNotes?
See UbuntuNetworkingNotes?
Sometimes you may see the following query when installing a package: Install these packages without verification y/N??
See AptNotes for some solutions
As of Breezy, you don't need to have universe on to install KDE. You can simply "apt-get install kde" and you will have a functioning desktop. For a bit more, you can "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" for a full Kubuntu desktop, including things like Amarok and Konversation not included in a default KDE install.
This will fill your Gnome menus with messy KDE apps, but you can get rid of these by running the following:
sudo sed -i '/OnlyShowIn=/d;$a\OnlyShowIn=KDE;' \
/usr/share/applications/kde/*.desktop
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