Is everyone appreciating that 2.x runs beautifully on Linux? Here's a screen shot on my Mint 10 Desktop.
http://img831.imageshack.us/i/onlinux.png/
(Why can't we post thumbnails here?)
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That's by design. We test under Wine regularly so it's supported (see the screenshot in our press kit). We even detect when we're running under Wine and serve up an alternate theme with squared corners because Wine can't handle the transparency effect properly. Glad you like it
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are you using ubuntu for testing?
As from 10.10 on, all usb sticks are considered as read only or better say only root writable if at all, so number of apps does not work properly.
Are you testing on older distro or other distro?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I run the latest 11.04 release and I can write to usb drives whatever I like until the stick is full.
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I tried to get some infos in the ubuntu forum and get answers that some people managed to fix it by somehow edit the fstab, but other complain the same as me. On 10.04 no problem, on 10.10 only via sudo and on 11.04 tested just from life CD it looks also so that apps refuse to run properly saying they are on read only media.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
If it's NTFS, it could be the same permissions issue that affects Windows Vista/7, in which case you need to set the root of the drive to give 'Everyone' 'Full Permissions' and then apply it to all sub-folders.
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no all my sticks are fat32 and what other linux users told me, they also have fat32 standard sticks and have problems in writing to them
On my ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04, no problems exist, on 3 installs with 10.10 all fat32 sticks are read only , so I thought you have some special trick or so
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I don't know if this is your problem or not, but if I remember correctly some Linux distros disable writing to possibly corrupt drives (wether that be their own assessment, or due to the dirty bit being set).
So I'd try booting up windows and running CHKDSK on them, it's not like it can hurt :).
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This is correct, but I can't remember if it's FAT32, NTFS or both that this affects. Basically, if the drive was last ejected from Windows and was not safely ejected, the drive 'remembers'. Ubuntu sees this and will only mount it as read only.
Yet another reason to always safely eject.
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Are you talking about when Ubuntu is run off the USB drive?