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20050525 Wednesday May 25, 2005

Thumbs Up For Ubuntu

I just installed Ubuntu Linux 4.10 from a CDROM I'd burnt a few weeks ago. This was on an old Toshiba Protege laptop (6Gb disk, 192Mb memory and PII CPU). It could not have been easier.

It automatically found and was able to use my LinkSys 10/100 PCMCIA network card. It installed a working system from a single CDROM in under two hours. And it looks nice. It's running GNOME 2.8.1 and has Firefox for its default browser.

Thanks for making this a pleasant install experience. I see that 5.04 is now available. That'll give me a GNOME 2.10.1 based desktop. Looks like I need to do a free download of that, burn a new CDROM and upgrade.

PS: Love the cow screen saver.

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( May 25 2005, 12:03:04 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [4]

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I've been a fan of Ubuntu for some time. It replaced Mandrake on my home PC, and my Ferrari laptop is now set up to triple-boot Solaris [Nevada build 14], Ubuntu, and WinXP. (The <code>newboot</code> Grub handles this nicely.) Next step is to upgrade to the Athlon 64 version of Ubuntu....

Posted by Geoff Arnold on May 25, 2005 at 01:59 PM PDT #

No need to waste a CDR, you can upgrade ubuntu in place, check out the upgrade notes.

Posted by jorge on May 25, 2005 at 02:49 PM PDT #

Hi jorge. I'm using rewriteable media so it's not really wasting it. I'm now at 5.04. Interestingly enough it's started me up at 640x480 rather than a higher displayer resolution (like it did for 4.10). I'll have to investigate why it did that tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be trivial.

Posted by Rich Burridge on May 25, 2005 at 04:42 PM PDT #

Yeah that happens sometimes, make sure your Monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf includes the exact settings for your HorizSync and VertRefresh. Here's mine as an example. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Dell LCD" HorizSync 30-92 VertRefresh 50-85 Option "DPMS" EndSection

Posted by jorge castro on May 26, 2005 at 01:54 PM PDT #

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