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Sure, with some time, it could recognize the wireless interface. I
was just comparing my experiences between the systems. I am just
using the live CD on memory sticks. With further testing, both
Gnome3s recognize the wireless system on my older System76 box.
System76 would have to tell us why, I guess.<br>
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On 05/02/2011 12:28 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a> wrote:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0,
0);">Sounds like you need to install a wireless driver. Did you
install Gnome 3 or just test it with a live CD? Did you need to
install the wireless driver separately?<br>
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I have a System76 Pangolin laptop, which I bought in 2008. I
have downloaded and burned to memory sticks both openSUSE and
Fedora versions of Gnome3. From a memory stick, both boot up
and seem to work "as designed". There are some good things and
some bad things about the live versions.<br>
<br>
1. The Fedora version can change timezones, but it may have
changed the internal clock. The openSUSE version can also
change the timezone, but, coming second, it didn't find the
correct current time.<br>
<br>
2. Both recognize the built-in System76 quirks.<br>
<br>
3. I agree that the interface will take some getting used to,
but that's probably to be expected.<br>
<br>
Now, for a disappointment. I also have a System76 Pangolin
laptop, which I just bought this year. It is last year's model,
since I got it on "close-out". I have rejected Gnome3
out-of-hand for this machine because neither version recognizes
the wireless interface. I have installed both Linux Mint 10 and
Ubuntu 11.04 on this box and they both use the wireless system
from the "git-go". They do require my manual intervention to
fire it up, but Gnome3 doesn't even realise that the interface
is there. I could find no (easy) way to even hunt for this
hardware in the menus.<br>
<br>
Ah well, back to finding things on the old box.<br>
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On 05/01/2011 10:35 PM, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
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Linux has switched to Gnome 2, so I have it on my laptop now.
It uses Gnome Shell instead of Ubuntu's Unity. My initial
impression is that it is merely change for the sake of change
instead of an actual improvement. Many people are going to
hate it as passionately as others hate KDE 4.<br>
<br>
I don't see any way to put icons or documents on the desktop.
I sometimes like to put working documents on the desktop and I
see no reason why someone should decide that I should not be
able to do that.<br>
<br>
The old menus are gone. The newer method takes more work.
I'm probably going to rely more on Cairo Dock.<br>
<br>
The old applets are gone. The new ones take up more room and
there are a few bugs, such as not showing up in the same
position after rebooting, even when they are supposed to be
locked to one position.<br>
<br>
Multiple desktops are gone. At least, I haven't found out how
to make it work.<br>
<br>
It also wants to use an accelerated graphics card or Gnome
Shell will not run. The new Metacity window manager runs
instead and its new look is very similar to Gnome Shell but
doesn't have the same capabilities. My laptop has accelerated
graphics but it wasn't turned on and I had to find out how to
turn it on.<br>
<br>
I can't change the screensaver. Before I could run
xscreensaver or Gnome Screensaver. The only thing I can
change is how long before it kicks in.<br>
<br>
Hmm. I haven't found anything yet that I consider an
improvement.
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