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Ubuntu Desktop Computer
By jelly | March 27, 2008
I have some sucesses and some failures as it pertains to ubuntu linux at the desktop. I am sure I will get most of them worked out but we will see.
I’m having a frustrating time of getting java installed. We have custom java aps and they work, using the JRE 1.6, this works fine, however when I want to open any of our java applet web pages, I am prompted to download Ice Team Open JDK to view it, if I download it, Then when I type java -version at the command prompt all the java aps are trying to use the Open JDK instead of the sun 1.6 . My aps won’t run in the OpenJDK 
I’ve installed the full web plugin, however mozilla doesn’t recognize it, I think I need to add it somewhere because it only checks for the ice tea version.
I do find the multiple desktops to be a real plus once you get used to it, I have 4 currenlty set up, email on one, web on another, and then the other two are reserved for what I’m currenlty working on. switching between them and aps are very easy.
Pidgen, is a very quick ap, however I dont’ like it that much, I dont’ seem to get notifications in the tray or anywhere when I get a message, I added pounces but that was a nightmare of popup windows when people start sending messages.
Open office spreadsheet does not handle spread sheets with pivot tables very well, everyone I open the majority of the formulas are errors.
Evolution works pretty good, however it needs to get prettied up a little, one thing I do miss from outlook is where it sorts by date showing which emails are today, yesterday, last week, and later. rather than having them all in one list. I think that formating is only need in outlook 2007 so its just something that I’ve become accustomed to.
Looked all over the net for a GUI Subversion client like Tortoise SVN and found lots of people looking for the same, then I discovered that netbeans 6 has a subversion client built into it. problem solved for now 
I’m hoping to configure up grub this morning so I can put the case back together with the vista SATA and Ubuntu SATA in the case, then I can move back to my desk and start the real testing with my dual screens and such.
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