Ubuntu 11.10 on 2 gig kingston data traveler

rokytnji · posted: 2011-10-22 22:10

With Persistence

Figured I would see what all the fuss was about with Unity and Ubuntu 11.10. Made a persistent live usb of 11.10 and have only booted it up on my gear that has gobs of ram and wifes dual core acer aspire windows 7 Laptop. Unity is sure a strange creature. Lots of clicks to get to a terminal even. But I just booted this today. So I don't know all the short cuts yet.

wanna see something freaky

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~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2035688    1682776     352912          0     161992    1114224
-/+ buffers/cache:     406560    1629128
Swap:      3196896          0    3196896

Glad AntiX is my Bro.

Here is the shot

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Feels like I am running Windows 7 (though I have no experience running Windows 7 or Vista for that matter)
All I installed was Java and Flash. Pretty much scared of filling up the pendrive. Took a while to boot also (since not a real install). Looks like when Ubuntu 12 LTS comes out. The minimal install iso is the way to go for a half decent Ubuntu desktop. IceUbuntu or Fluxubuntu or both.

Sheesh. I had to install gawk before inxi would run in this.

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: ubuntu Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 6075BHU version: ThinkCentre M57
           Mobo: LENOVO model: LENOVO Bios: LENOVO version: 2RKT41AUS date: 03/20/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1800.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.org: 1.10.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 80x24 
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver: rt61pci 
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filtered>
           Card-2: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e 
           IF: eth1 state: down speed: 4294967295 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filtered>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 82.0GB (2.4% used) 1: /dev/sda ST380815AS 80.0GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 1.2G used: 708M (63%) fs: overlayfs ID: swap-1 size: 3.27GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info:      Processes: 153 Uptime: 1:22 Memory: 443.1/1988.0MB Runlevel: 2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24

I only have a few 492MB or so left on 1.2 gig persistence after java, flash, gawk, and inxi install/ need a bigger pendrive/ __{{emoticon}}__

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-23 01:00

Now that kind of reminds me of Windows 8's desktop...just as freaky and a full Ubuntu image can take up most of a pendrive for sure!

Now would be cool if there was an AntiX respin for x86_64 __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__

buttcoffee · posted: 2011-10-23 23:53

Is that Unity 3d or Unity 2d? I just looks like it was designed for a phone or tablet, not a desktop or laptop

I'm surprised a lot of people are still using ubuntu and that Unity garbage. I wonder if it's better than gnome 3 because gnome 3 is awful, imho

rokytnji · posted: 2011-10-24 00:01

It looked to act as 3d on the wifes laptop. I just ran the defaults on bootup. It is gone now on that pendrive. Running Semplice on it now.

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-24 00:05

rokytnji wrote:It looked to act as 3d on the wifes laptop. I just ran the defaults on bootup. It is gone now on that pendrive. Running Semplice on it now.

Ubuntu is still such a pig anyway, but semplice is quite nice and simple so it is quite promising

buttcoffee · posted: 2011-10-25 03:48

I just tried ubuntu 11.10 on my flash drive. I got it to work and installed something for my wireless, then it asked to reboot for some odd reason and when it rebooted, it broke. I had it setup for persistant on my flash drive.

That unity crap seemed like a huge hassle just to do simple stuff when I played with it. Is there even a terminal installed on it because I couldn't find it in those god awful menus.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-10-25 07:16

Gotta use the search bar to find terminal in menus. A script to run a script. Like grub 2. __{{emoticon}}__

There is probably a keyboard shortcut but I did not stick around long enough to find it.

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-25 14:11

Ubuntu 11.10 is just meant for the Windoze crowd...and my mom likes it though as she's no computer guru and just clicks an icon to get online.

the convert · posted: 2011-11-08 21:13

unity is garbage, i like the"dock thing" on the left but that's it. it's stupid to make a desktop for netbooks and then simply enlargen it for a normal dekstop... but whatever, i stick with antix...

and rokytnji (or anybody else), in case you're still interested...
some unity keyboard shortcuts:
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Cuttlefish · posted: 2011-11-10 23:44

I been trying out Fedora 16. I find it more visually appealing than 11.10 and seems a bit more intuitive ...to me.
It also seems pretty zippy as a live usb.

I just don't know how to do much with it yet, like add flash or use yum. It also seems to have some special effects already enabled.

Edit: I put 11.10 on a flash drive and using it now. I can't really say that I don't like it. It seems to work well here. I miss right clicking on the desktop to get my menu. Same situation with Fedora of course. I have to admit that the software center is nice. It is also nice that it is"debian".

Overall, I think I like Fedora 16 a bit more. Nice to have a choice. To use or not to use. That is the question...Good thing. __{{emoticon}}__