Technology-Bytes

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New computer acer 6293 has ubuntu ultimate edition installed

A ubuntu with everything installed. Works a treat. The 6293 has bigger keyboard than 6292. However I still don't like the fonts of linux. Unfortunate, but cool OS.

Latest edition Mepis won't work on new acer 6292

Well it will really but I can't get online. Therefore being a webaddict it is basically usless

Debian Testing yes then no, Mepis is back

I tried for months to use debian testing. Somewhere along the track the team made some sort of error with the kernel or its modules. On a sytem which had wireless, ethernet and modem working, after an update the wireless and modem stopped working. I searched for answers, couldn't get one which worked so I installed latest 32 bit mepis. Mepis works fine. Pity, would have preferred to stay with debian.

Kubuntu came and went.

After full upgrade,-no wireless, no modem, no mouse. No kubuntu. Kanotix cebit edition reinstalled.

I'll get to Linux eventually!

Almost a year later and I have installed kanotix 32 and 64, suse 64, fedora 5, attempted to install ubuntu, kubuntu 5.04 , knoppix 5 dvd sled 10 and a few other linux distros. I couldn't get past the bootup for sled and kubuntu. My msi s270's ati xpress200 video card was probably the problem. I managed to install kanotix, fedora 5 and kubuntu 6 in the 64 bit versions but I couldn't get my ipn2220 to run or the modem to work. Apparently slmodem is only written in 32 bit. There is a fix but it is too hard for me to do. Hopefully linmodem will create a 64 bit version sometime, then I will go 64 bit. My ipn2220 should have worked but it just wouldn't with 64 bit. Unfortunately although I don't like it much I have managed to install kubuntu 6.06 32 bit. For some reason known only to ubuntu I have had to download ndiswrapper and slmodem and install them. Why they just didn't load on the installation of kubuntu has me bemused. Oh well, it runs on both telephone and wireless now. So be it. Ubuntu doesn't load much software, not even some bare essentials. Luckily there is a heap of software available from a sources list I got from distrowatch Trevino's Blog. Lots of stuff I will never use but I will probably have a look at everything I can use in place of windows programs. Gnucash or Kmoney for starters. The minimum specs for windows vista 64 are probably beyond this little laptop. In spite of it being a mt37 turion with 2g ram. I also don't want to pay a bucketload for an iffie os. If I can just learn how to make this computer run wine properly I will be ok.

Bugger, back to Mepis

I downloaded and installed 2 newish debian distros. One wrecked my mbr(underground) and quit half way through install the other(debianpure), although a new release had old software and needed too much of an upgrade to install my wireless card. So I am temporarily back to Mepis. I partitioned my hard disk first then put the cd in and installed. On reboot all I had to do to get on my lan was type in my net address change 2 switches and away I went. Much easier than straight debian. No abnormalities compared to kubuntu either and fast. I will be happy with this for a little while.