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Dell to Start Offering Ubuntu Linux (7.04)
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Slashdot and just about everywhere else is pointing to the official announcement that Dell will start offering Ubuntu (7.04) as a pre-install OS option later this May on some of it’s lower end PC models; to test the waters. I’m hugely excited for what this means for Linux, mainly from the aspect of hardware support. Canonical [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 6.06 + ThinkPad T60 Wifi (ipw3945) + WEP/WAP
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Ok the short story here is that the wireless adapter on the ThinkPad T60 series of notebooks (ipw3945 driver) work fine with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) IF you are using no encryption or WEP encryption. I put “if” in bold back there because I’m a moron, let me explain: I received my ThinkPad T60 from UPS [...]
Continue reading...Linux Hardware on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
A while ago I blogged about my experience installing Ubuntu and configuring/using it to replace my Windows desktop. Then using that information I put together a guide for new users on what to expect when setting up Ubuntu and how to create the best “first timer” experience I could think of. I also ran across this [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot2 Released
Friday, September 1, 2006
For those that are confused by this, the “Knot” releases are basically alphas that you can download and try out to see progress until the next release. A lot of the major eye-candy related items that are planned for Edgy Eft (full list) have been done for the Knot2 release, that includes the updates to X.org [...]
Continue reading...Installing Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 on Linux
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
I would say in 99% of the cases people would want to do this for testing a website if they are exclusively a Linux user, this is certainly the position I’m in. I knew I needed Wine and being on Ubuntu that was as easy as using Synaptic to download and install it. I would mention [...]
Continue reading...Linux Laptop Installation/Device Support Results
Monday, August 21, 2006
Ran across this excellent survey of thousands of writeups about installing different Linux distrobutions on all different types of laptops. I’m thinking of getting a ThinkPad T60 or the Core 2 Duo update after the T60 and was really curious how Ubuntu did. It was really easy to click the ThinkPad series and then scroll [...]
Continue reading...Getting XGL Working on your Distrobution of Choice
Friday, August 18, 2006
OSNews has a good post linking to XGL tutorials for all the major distrobutions out there, linked below for quick reference: Ubuntu SUSE Fedora Core (1, 2, 3)
Continue reading...A Manual for the Ubuntu Linux Beginner
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Introduction The purpose of this post is to give folks that have never used Ubuntu (or even Linux) and idea of what Ubuntu is all about. The reason for putting this together is that most of the existing reviews online are exactly that: reviews. While certainly helpful for existing Linux users it doesn’t give folks who [...]
Continue reading...Get iPod Podcast Synchronization Working on Ubuntu 6.06
Monday, July 24, 2006
Well after my long-winded first week with Ubuntu outlined here I got a ton of excellent feedback from folks on how to make my life easier. This post covers one of the tips which was how to get my iPod working with linux using Amarok 1.4.1. It turns out that using Amarok 1.4.1 is going [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Review
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Introduction I started my quest for a good Windows XP alternative (before Vista ships) with SUSE 10.1 RC3 preview as I outlined in a 2 part review here and here. I realized during that review that reviewing something for a day worth of use isn’t that handy and if I don’t force myself to use the [...]
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