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[MIJ-VI]

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Linux, opensource and me

 

[MIJ-VI]

GMA 500 on Linux

"GMA 500 support on Linux is not optimal. The driver is developed by Tungsten Graphics, not by Intel, and the graphic core is not an Intel one, but is licensed from PowerVR. This has led to an uncertain mix of open and closed source 3d accelerated drivers, instability and lack of support.

Ubuntu is the Linux distribution that best supports GMA500 (Poulsbo), through the use of the ubuntu-mobile and gma500 repositories on Launchpad. Support is present for 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and in an experimental way for 10.04, but the installation procedure is not as simple as other drivers and can lead to many bugs..."

[all variants] Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500
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[MIJ-VI]

Shuttleworth answers Ubuntu Linux's critics

 

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"Wireless semiconductor vendor Broadcom announced yesterday that it has released an open source Linux driver for its latest 802.11n chipsets. The "still in progress" driver supports Broadcom BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225 Wi-Fi chipsets, enabling Linux distributions to include native support for these popular Wi-Fi chips, says Broadcom..."

 

[MIJ-VI]

If you're using a PC with a dual-core CPU and it won't install or boot into any GNU/Linux distro, then you may find this to be useful:

[Solved] Unable to install any Linux distro
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Bottom line: some distros won't install or run on anything but a single CPU core on some multi-core machines.

On a dual-core (or more, I presume) PC the extra CPU cores will have to be disabled. (Googly, Googly... )

In all likelihood there's some way to patch or compile a custom kernel which supports multi-core CPUs on some troublesome machines.

 

[MIJ-VI]

Linux 2.6.36-rc5 Kernel Released; Fixes 14 Year Old Bug
Posted by Michael Larabel on September 21, 2010

 

[sloasdaylight]

I'm posting to eliminate the possibility that MIJ claims a page all to his own.

 

[MIJ-VI]

Drat!

 

[MIJ-VI]

Direct3D 10/11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux!

 

[jp58]

Ugghhh... My SPSS license expired. One step closer to eliminating windows from my routine...

 

[MIJ-VI]

Ugghhh... My SPSS license expired. One step closer to eliminating windows from my routine...

A five-year-old thread which may offer some clues:

SPSS statistical software on Linux
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33052

PSPP - Statistical Analysis
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Learning PSPP
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1296686

It's available in the System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager.

A description:

"Statistical analysis tool

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It
interprets commands in the SPSS language and produces tabular output
in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML format.

PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset of
SPSS's transformation language. Its statistical procedure support is
currently limited, but growing.

Canonical does not provide updates for pspp. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community."

According to this thread, PSPP currently isn't very good:

[SOLVED] Installing SPSS 18 for Linux in Ubuntu 10.04
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1532332

 

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http://www.pitivi.org/?go=download

"The latest released version is 0.13.5 . In PiTiVi's world, releases get outdated quickly. You may want to try out the development version instead of a "stable" release, depending on your needs..."

 

[jp58]

SPSS/PSPP

Well I have to buy a new subscription anyways, so I think I'm going to go ahead and try debian or do ubuntu full time now. I also have a report due, so I'm going to try PSPP and the other fixes posted WAAAYYY back in here.

I will post my conclusions/results asap.

That is all.

 

[jp58]

I can't get the compe to boot now, whether it is in windows or through a installer. It keeps saying boot fail, but is fully functional at the bios.

I've tried the staple installs of debian (both hd and net) through unetbootin and they failed, I also tried several install types of ubuntu.

Any idea whats causing the hangup?

 

[MIJ-VI]

I can't get the compe to boot now, whether it is in windows or through a installer. It keeps saying boot fail, but is fully functional at the bios.

I've tried the staple installs of debian (both hd and net) through unetbootin and they failed, I also tried several install types of ubuntu.

Any idea whats causing the hangup?

Try booting into the BIOS, selecting the default setting (or however it's worded), and then rebooting.

The ThinkPad T61 (etc) Hardware Maintenance Manual:
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[ez-rhino]

Installed ubuntu on the home desktop, and laptop workstation, multiple partition installs all around, have Audacity on both, works like a champ.

 

[jp58]

Try booting into the BIOS, selecting the default setting (or however it's worded), and then rebooting.

The ThinkPad T61 (etc) Hardware Maintenance Manual:
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it won't let me usb or cd boot out of bios. It just says boot failed, no reason or explanation, and if I hard drive boot, it won't let me use the hard drive as what I save my new os to.

I feel like fail right about now.

 

[MIJ-VI]

it won't let me usb or cd boot out of bios. It just says boot failed, no reason or explanation, and if I hard drive boot, it won't let me use the hard drive as what I save my new os to.

I feel like fail right about now.

Can you get into the BIOS?

 

[jp58]

Can you get into the BIOS?

yup, and it will let me select to boot from whatever. Then it says it failed after I pick whatever media source I have selected.

 

[MIJ-VI]

Installed ubuntu on the home desktop, and laptop workstation, multiple partition installs all around, have Audacity on both, works like a champ.

When GNU/Linux supports one's PC hardware Ubuntu is beautiful indeed.