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Well, it’s done. After a week of trying this and that, I finally got DSL (DamnSmallLinux) rolling on the Fujitsu B2131 last night. To remind folks what the challenge was (and is for some of the linux dev teams out their who claim to support older platforms): Install a fully-functioning OS on a laptop machine [...]
A co-worker gave me an ancient Fujitsu Lifebook B-2131. I want to turn it into an ultra-portable netbook thingie. The catch? No cd-rom. Apparently the world has forgotten the world of the boot floppy and internet installs. Well, almost everyone. Turns out that if you have a floppy drive, and 5 spare 1.44MB disks, there [...]
For the last week, I have been using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my personal laptop. I can say that the experience has been mostly transparent for me, even with the need for a complete re-build last night after an attempt to install a complex theme replacement. I can say that it has been transparent [...]
Ubuntu: Now Uninstalled
In: Linux: Desktop
10 Nov 2005Ubuntu, oh how I wish I understood you! My understanding of why people prefer Windows and OSX is cemented. Evolution keeps crashing, and the wireless card, which worked perfectly at the office, can’t see my WRT54G. Sorry Linux, until you can make it JUST FREAKING WORK, you are sent back to /dev/null. I don’t have [...]
Coming to you from Ubuntu
10 Nov 2005Ok, this is the first post from the new Ubuntu-powered work laptop. I partitioned the drive and installed the OS and the only hiccups have been with Evolution, which I think I have beaten into the ground. Even the ndiswrapper hack worked perfectly for my wireless card. Nice! This has come a long way since [...]