Re: [Gimp-user] Error.

[Daniel Smith <opened to gmail com>]

Wow, thanks to both (all) of you!
I'll have to taste the mint, so to speak.
I was running Ubuntu 11 till my latest machinicide.
I thought though when I installed it that Linux has come
incredibly far in ease of use since when I used to use it
back in the old Red Hat 4, 7 etc command line startup days.
Of course, I just did it with an ubuntu cd I bought off of ebay for 4 bucks.
So no size worries for me.
But I did notice when I was searching that error above, or different
combinations of its terms included, that it seemed cross-OS, that
different #s (gmem.c: 165, 135, etc)  of it occurred in various linux
and windows versions that people had reported bugs or complained of.
Except for, notably, on Macs. Don't know fer sure about that though.
On second search through it seemed a lot had to do with corrupted
or unmanageably large conversion files etc. crashing memory.
This is a very similar error:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/846389
Dan

On 11/4/12, Olivier <olecarme gmail com> wrote:
> 2012/11/4 Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>
>
> > Ubuntu 10 has worked great for me but alas, Canonical has gone the
> > way of the "dedicated touchscreen interface".  I will be bailing out
> > when the version I am using reaches "end of life" next year.  Can't
> > sit a very computer illiterate user in front of the "Unity" desktop,
> > and expect them to figure it out and use it without problems.  Can't
> > expect me to toss 20 years of reasonably efficient workflow habits
> > out the window either...
> >
> > You don't need to do that. Using Ubuntu 12.04 with the look and feel of
> Ubuntu 10.04 is rather easy. Of course, it needs a little work, but nothing
> complicated. I'm using that on all my computers and on all the computers I
> manage. The major visible differences is that I cannot use any more the
> theme I liked (but probably still a little more work probably would do
> that, if it was so important), and the System global menu is now hidden in
> the Applications menu.
>
> I did not yet try version 12.10, and Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 seems
> promising, but it uses Gnome 3, which some people consider as much
> offending as Unity...
>
> I have been very impressed with Mint - the other day I had occasion
> > to use the Live DVD in conjunction with a printer/scanner on a
> > random PC on a random office LAN, and the thing "just worked" all
> > around.
> >
> > Mint is very pleasant and refreshing indeed, and I'll shift to it if
> combining Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 2 is impossible.
>
>
> > Running an OS that works for not against the user is a very
> > addictive thing.  Token on-topic reference:  The GIMP was the first
> > major gateway drug that started me down the path to a 100% Free
> > Software world.  Ubuntu stopped including the GIMP in its default
> > installation package, and that's another strike against Canonical...
> > sure it's stupidly easy to install, but dang it, GNU/Linux is
> > supposed to include the GIMP right out of the box, is all!
> >
> > :o)
>
> The only problem, in my opinion, is that Ubuntu still insists on fitting on
> a CD instead of a DVD, for reasons I don't know.
>
> --
> Olivier Lecarme