Now longer back than I care to think about (which is only August) I ordered a Solid State Drive, figuring it'd be good to have in one machine and get some experience with SSD setup. I figured I'd have to do some special partitioning and filesystem tweaking, but it would mainly be a matter of "plug it in and it works." That's how it seemed to start ( Read more... )

I'd been using an old laptop in the kitchen wanted something newer. A while ago I saw that the Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5104 (15.6 inch 1366x768 screen, Quad core, AMD/ATI HD6520 graphics from the A6 processor, 4 GB RAM expandable to 8 GB, 500 GB HDD) could be had for a low price, but was just above Best Buy's 18-month no-interest threshold. I ( Read more... )

While dealing with things in Wisconsin earlier this month, Xubuntu 10.04 annoyed me for the last time. I wound up having to boot into Windows to get some things done since 10.04 just plain quit doing a thing or two I needed. That was, of course, the last straw. There was simply NO more reason to keep 10.04 around ( Read more... )

I just updated the kernel for the desktop's Xubuntu install. I will not be doing that for the laptop. At least I'll have a fully working laptop that way ( Read more... )

( Xubuntu, microphone, and a couple other things. )

I am not a fan of the Debian family of distributions, and it's not just because of the idiotic GNU/ prefixing. I had found that *buntu tended to "help" me too much by getting in the way. Even so, I am now running Xubuntu 10.04[1] on the laptop (palomino on the rare occasion I boot it into Windows, andalusian for Linux). Why? Salix had video ( Read more... )

I'm finally installing Wolvix 1.1.0 on the laptop, after getting the latest GParted beta and repartitioning the laptop drive. All that is going slow, but it is going. And the Wolvix LiveCD even found a neighbor's unsecured wireless network and connected without my having to tweak anything.

I also tried Xubuntu. Or rather I tried to try it, and ( Read more... )

Last night I did a backup of the data on belgian in preparation for installing Kubuntu (7.04, "Feisty Fawn") on that machine. I didn't go farther than the backup last night, wanting to pause a while and be sure of things. This morning I figured it was time to actually do it.

Well, *ubuntu is not going on belgian. *ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn"), ( Read more... )

I've been trying out Xubuntu (a slightly lighter version of Ubuntu with the XFCE window manager) on percheron recently.

( Xubuntu adventures )