Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Debian Lenny works ok on my desktop computer, an Asus Pundit AH1 box with dual core AMD processors and nvidia graphics and sound. The Lenny release is the current ‘stable’ and so has slightly old packages (Firefox 3.0xx and OpenOffice 2.4) but runs fast. I can always upgrade to Squeeze (the current ‘testing’) when I [...]
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Just bought a cheap laser printer (first time I’ve had a printer at home for around 10 years). Settled on what they had in PC World, a monochrome Samsung ML1640. Installed on my College laptop running Windows XP - put CD in, click some buttons, navigate some menus, restart and then prints. Plugged it into [...]
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Linux allows you to use old hardware with a current, relatively secure operating system and the usual applications. I’ve put Ubuntu 9.04 on the Linux partition of my old Dell laptop mainly because of the Network Manager that has appeared in Ubuntu since 8.10. Networking Just Works with a range of WiFi cards and, [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Modem connected web book allows students to see YouTubes and encourages them to use blog between lessons.
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Ubuntu repositories contain this program, it does what it says on the packet
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Record my desktop from the Ubuntu repositories produces a screencam video of your Ubuntu session
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
My G3 mobile web modem ‘just works’ thanks to network manager 0.7. Sort of impressive.
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
The new Ubuntu release is easy to install and use and provides a good desktop experience. I like it.
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
gOS is a version of Linux that is intended to be easy to use and designed around what most computer users want to do (Web, photos, music, e-mail, documents). The distribution is based on Ubuntu, in turn based on Debian, but the gOS people have made an honest attempt to make the desktop easy to [...]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Hardy Heron 8.04.1 appears to ‘just work’ in many respects.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
NeoOffice is a build of OpenOffice that integrates with the Mac OS X desktop much better than OpenOffice does.
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Debian stable is… well stable
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Installs easily and works OK for an alpha going beta
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Ubuntu 7.10 running on an AMD box
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Alien and dpkg work, but Feisty will allow install from repositories.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Beta now available, with some bling and some old problems
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
The beta live desktop boots fine, but the desktop bling won’t work on my old p4.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Intstallation on a fresh Xubuntu machine uses ‘default’ repositories and requires no libraries.
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Running XP under vmplayer in Xubuntu
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Installing Apache and UseMod on Xubuntu
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Xubuntu 6.06 can play most media content found on the Web.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Should Ubuntu include closed source binary drivers for fancy graphics?
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
You can download the latest version and install it yourself…
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
I’ve put it back on the old laptop.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
The CDs dropped through the letterbox the day before the last day of 2005
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Ubuntu 5.04 and acpi – setting the temperature trip points for a Pentium 3 coppermine processor.
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Sunday, June 12th, 2005
The Ubuntu Forums page for Modems on L400
Source code for Lucent Winmodem used in Dell L400
You get a warning when compiling
The Wiki page routine for Ubuntu 5.04 misses out a step – adding a statement to the Grub configuration file. This second method didn’t work on my computer so I used the compile from code [...]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2005
Modem working in Ubuntu Linux
The Lucent Winmodem drivers may already be part of Ubuntu Hoary
You have to set up a connection using System | Administration | Networking
You may have to set up details in pppconfig (a terminal application) as well
I’ll be doing a re-install to see what works as I have lost track of all [...]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
Ubuntu installs easily on a P3 700MHz laptop.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
The Ubuntu live cd runs fine on my iBook and lets me demonstrate an alternative operating system
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