So, I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Linux over the last few years, downloading the occasional LiveCD to see what things look like, and what does/doesn’t work on my tower and/or laptop. For the most part, the main thing that’s scared me away from seriously trying Linux is that I’d have so much fiddling around to do to get my WiFi working in the house. This version (5.10 “Breezy Badger) just plain worked. No messing around, no preconfiguration with another NDIS wrapper or something. Just… worked.
So then I downloaded a proper installation disc (non-live), created a little 5gb partition on my laptop, and now I’ve got dual booting XP/Ubuntu.
Pretty neat, and now I’m finally getting some experience in this particular flavour of Linux. Oh, and if you call it Leeeeenux within earshot, I will giggle at you.
October 4th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
I pronounce it “VEE-stah”.
Ubuntu’s pretty damned nice, gotta say. Clara’s using it here and no complaints so far — and so much autodetection that I feel positively decadent using it.
October 5th, 2005 at 7:27 am
my only complaint is the crystal-sucking shimmery sound it makes when I restart. like Mindhead in “Bowfinger.” I always say “Wellllcome to Ubuuuuntuuuu” in a terrible accent when I hear the shimmery sound.
But in the geekscheme of things, this is not important.