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The Linux notebook experiment is over.....
After being unable to use the modem and network cards with my "new" laptop (a Dell Latitude CPx), I thought I wouldn't be able to successfully run Linux on a notebook or laptop computer. (To recap the problems I was having, I couldn't connect to the internet using either a PCMCIA modem card or wireless network card.)
This past weekend, during some housecleaning, I found the copy of Windows XP Professional I bought last year. (This was bought with a deep student discount, as I was taking a class at Sinclair at the time. I refuse to pay full price for average software for the average user.) Tonight, I installed it and it appears to be working fine. And as evidenced by this post, I can connect with my modem card.
In the next few days, I will be installing some more hardware and software, getting the latest patches, and migrating software and files from the old laptop ("tardis Mk II", a Dell Latitude XPi CD). I intend to install OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird on the new laptop ("tardis Mk III", the Dell Latitude CPx J).
I'm not completely giving up on Linux, though. My last employer scrapped a Gateway 4000-E desktop because the hard drive went bad. So I put dibs on it, took it home, put in a new hard drive, and installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). It appears to work great. I still need to install the network and video drivers. Maybe I can install MySQL and Samba on there.
To the Linux geeks out there, thank you for all the help you've given me over the last couple of months.
Shout-outs: Happy birthday![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uk_kay_kay!
This past weekend, during some housecleaning, I found the copy of Windows XP Professional I bought last year. (This was bought with a deep student discount, as I was taking a class at Sinclair at the time. I refuse to pay full price for average software for the average user.) Tonight, I installed it and it appears to be working fine. And as evidenced by this post, I can connect with my modem card.
In the next few days, I will be installing some more hardware and software, getting the latest patches, and migrating software and files from the old laptop ("tardis Mk II", a Dell Latitude XPi CD). I intend to install OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird on the new laptop ("tardis Mk III", the Dell Latitude CPx J).
I'm not completely giving up on Linux, though. My last employer scrapped a Gateway 4000-E desktop because the hard drive went bad. So I put dibs on it, took it home, put in a new hard drive, and installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). It appears to work great. I still need to install the network and video drivers. Maybe I can install MySQL and Samba on there.
To the Linux geeks out there, thank you for all the help you've given me over the last couple of months.
Shout-outs: Happy birthday
uk_kay_kay!
Unbuntu
Well we have two laptops here running Ubuntu, both of which are doing so flawlessly (one had been running for over a year). But I also spent a lot of time learning about Linux, and I think I've tried 15 or 20 Linux Distros. Heck, one day I was sorting through a stack of CDs, and I had over 50 with various distros burned on them, some of which I'd had for 6 or 7 years. Heck, I've still got a boxed set of Caldera Open Linux I bought 8 years ago, before they went insane, changed their name to The SCO Group, and in a totally suicidal move sued IBM.
But that's how mad I was at Microsoft, and their sub-standard software. I was willing to do a lot of work to escape from the Redmond trap, and now I have, I couldn't be happier!