Youpii!

[aesmael]

I finally managed to install Ubuntu on my new laptop (only took me 3.5 days...), dual-booting with Vista. Now that I know what I am doing I could probably manage it again in an hour or two (assuming broadband to download with).

Now is time for sleep. Tomorrow, getting a handle on the file tree and hopefully transfer of documents for writingness. Get the sound drivers working, configure email and so forth (stop making lists, they make things sound longer and more involved than necessary). Then I trundle on my merry writing way.

Oh, first impressions. Vista is spiffy and shiny and purdy but so far it is Ubuntu that is making me say 'Wow'. Sadly Vista is also greedy for memory. This machine (Shards to Vista, Melantha to Ubuntu) has a 100GB hard drive. I wanted to allocate 20GB to Windows and the rest to Ubuntu but the most I could make it give up was 32GB. Well! That is still quite a bit of memory so we shall see. Using Gaim for IM on both OSes, on Vista it crashes every time I try to log in to MSN but seems to be working fine on Ubuntu.

Right. Now I'm done. 'Night!

Comments

[aki-no-kaze.livejournal.com]

unless you are talking about breast implants and other fun rubbery things, i think you may meen "silicon overlords", not "silicone" :)



not to say that perky breasts and colourfull dildoes couldn't rule the world someday :)

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

You noticed! I think it is more fun that way, plus it doubles as a perhaps-hypocritical jab at our cultural attitude to body modification.

[whimsical-esper.livejournal.com]

Yah, I've been hearing that Vista is pretty but a memory hog.

Interesting, Gaim does the same thing on my XP machine.

~S

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

*says 'hmm' in a suspecting manner*

[dclarion.livejournal.com]

Which installation method did you use for Ubuntu? When I installed 6.10, the standard install didn't work for me, but I got it going with the alternate install. It's not a bad little system. Not as good as mine, mind you, but nice...

:o)

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

From the LiveCD. The installation itself went fine and I do not think I have had any uncommon problems since. Merely ones which are as yet unsolvable by me. :-P

Your system?

[dclarion.livejournal.com]

Your system?

Yes. I designed a Linux distribution, which I call Fnord. I did it mainly because I wanted to learn what went into a Linux system, and hands-on was the best way to do that. And, because I could build it to spec. There are things I would rather have, there are things I would rather not have. Brewing my own, so to speak, gave me the opportunity to do some tailoring.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

Vista scares me :( I'm worried about installing it cuz it seems so invasive ;-;