[ubuntu-nz] 11.04 on laptop gets nuked

[James Paterson]

On 10/04/11 19:12, chris wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:04 +1200, James Paterson wrote:
>> Well my flirting with 11.04 on my laptop is over.
>>
>> I found when I test ran a program I am writing I could not use the
>> lazarus project menu stop it when it got out of control.  For some
>> reason the ctrl + F2 key combination has never worked in ubuntu.  I
>> always use the menu but in Unity the menus are on the top bar and as
>> soon as the test program is running its menu is on the bar and I found I
>> could not use that to close it.  Worse still after finally stopping the
>> program I found I could not see most of the menu items for the lazarus
>> menus.  They did not come back after a reboot either.
>>
>> Yesterday evening I just saved the few things that were only on the
>> laptop and did a format reinstall of 10.04 and then reset up the laptop
>> as a NFS client of my desktop.  Was good revision as its not that long
>> since first I did this.
>>
>> I do not like the unity desktop.  I prefer having menus and do not see
>> why they could not have put them in - maybe its to do with the devices
>> this desktop is designed for.  When the next Long term release comes out
>> I will have to decide whether to go with that if classical gnome is
>> available and okay or change to Arch linux.
>>
>> James Paterson
>>
>>
>>
> try looking at this  http://www.swiftlinux.org  Seems to do most basic
> things.
I just looked it over.  Very interesting - especially the list of 
forensic tools.  If my lappie keeps going for a few years it might be 
just the thing to install on it.

James Paterson aka rockyredhead