Over the past year I have developed quite a fondness for Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition. Most of my laptops dual-boot it and my wife runs it full time on her little IBM Thinkpad X40. The Netbook edition works great on the 12” or smaller monitors. I briefly tried Ubuntu 10.10. … Continue reading
I’ve been running Windows XP on my trusty Eee 701 netbook for about a year and a half now (last mention). XP worked fine and did the job. However, as time passed it slowly used more and more space. When you only have a 4GB SSD drive to work with, … Continue reading
Tonight I wanted to try out the recently released Ubuntu 10.0.4 so I downloaded the ISO and gave it a shot with VMware Player on my home machine. While the install itself went well, once I was at a logon screen I couldn’t use the keyboard. Mouse worked, but to … Continue reading
After 3 months of steady use, customization and tweaking I (some would say finally) managed to break my Ubuntu Linux install last night. I was rather sad since I didn’t actually do anything this time. I logged on last night and noticed there were some updates to download and apply. … Continue reading
It has been almost a year since my last look at Puppy Linux so I dusted off the old ThinkPad 600e laptop (pentium 2!) and had a look at Puppy 4.2.1. Initially it would hang while booting from CD. After some searching I learned to give the “acpi=force” argument at … Continue reading
