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The final version of Linux Mint 12 ("Lisa") was released, with "MGSE" extensions to GNOME 3.2 that let users create a more GNOME 2.3x-like environment. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 12 features upgrades to Firefox 7.0, LibreOffice 3.4.3 and Thunderbird 7.0.1, and introduces a new DuckDuckGo default search engine. http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linux...-ships/?kc=LNXDEVNL120111

Techworld.com - Linux Mint appears to be soaring in popularity at the expense of high-profile distros such as Ubuntu, figures from DistroWatch have suggested.

The site's latest page hit numbers show a sharp decline in the last month for Ubuntu, which having occupied second spot throughout year has now dropped to fourth place, behind even Fedora, openSUSE and top performer, Mint.

The figures are perhaps more surprising given that Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu, 11.10, on 13 October, within the period covered by the measurements, which look at the average number of hits per day from unique IP addresses.------- http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/922240...ld+Linux+and+Unix+News%29

How to replace Ubuntu 11.10's Unity desktop with good ol' GNOME
[Updated: Dec. 8] -- Ubuntu users who dislike the new Unity desktop have other alternatives besides sticking with "Maverick Meerkat" or jumping ship to Linux Mint or another distro. An illustrated DeviceGuru tutorial shows how to load the GNOME Fallback mode on Ubuntu 11.10 and configure it to offer more of a GNOME 2.x experience.

The last two Ubuntu releases -- 11.04 and 11.10 ("Oneiric Ocelot") -- have generated controversy among the Ubuntu faithful for pushing the Unity desktop environment in place of GNOME. Even more so than with the similarly controversial GNOME 3.x, the radically different Unity desktop is oriented toward smaller, touchscreen devices -- just one of several complaints from traditional desktop PC users.
Thanks to Unity, many Ubuntu users have yet to upgrade from earlier versions using GNOME 2.x, thereby missing out on the latest enhancements. Others, meanwhile, appear to be jumping ship to other distros such as the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 12, which lets users customize GNOME 3.2 to make it appear more like a GNOME 2.x http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Devic...zation/?kc=LNXDEVNL120811 desktop.

Looked in and seeing a few quite [more] competent Linux advisors than I am, so wont be muddying the water. After I'm done in Linux 11.10, I sign out, switch to TTY1 terminal session, do a sudo service lightdm stop, do a top - u userid to make sure only bash and screen are still running, then exit the TTY session too. Remote monitoring, get per BOINCTasks 99.8% and better for all that are write to disk compliant. CEP2 manages 95-97%. Seems a moody thing and if the OS tried running software update checks and CPU time eaters such as tracking. My fstab has the realatime option added to the HD entries (though that is I understand now default). The noatime does give just fractional improvement, at price of loosing response when actually using the system. Cant say it risks file system corruption on hard crash.

And don't overstare on 7 minutes loss between Elapsed and CPU time... that still gives you > 98% efficiency on a 7 hour job. There's a limit how far you can reasonably squeeze it, after which it becomes pathological [Am I? Don't answer!]. Looking forward to the just beta-tested GFAM/DSFL being moved to production, which do have the WtD client setting compliance . That will give me about 1% out of the box with a 5 minute checkpointing limit setting. Now running at 15 minutes WtD.

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ty sek but sounds to difficult for me. so i will just keep quessing