Right, on to the next machine
Well, since the demise of my laptop (a tear begins to form) I have had to move back to my old computer as continued use of my mums wasn’t going to go down to well. The problem with my old machine is that it was a bit used and abused. Though still a fine piece of equipment with a more than adequate 2ghz processor, the big dell symbol always made me want to give it a hard time. So here is what I have done to it now to get it up and running… I’ve installed ubuntu linux on it. The poor thing, I’ve installed and re-installed various operating systems on it over time. Still, if I’m to achieve my goal of uber-web-geek I have to get to grips with what 80% of the internet is run on.
I’ve used GNU/Linux systems before but have always run into problems with them. This is probably the biggest issue that the open source community faces, thats noobs like myself continualy hit stumbling blocks each time we try to install it. There are linux based systems out there that do detect everything without a problem, but they tend to be live versions (boot and run off a CD without installation) like knoppix. It’s a shame the installable versions versions so often require you to be tech savvy.
This is what I found to be so good with ubuntu. It has had no problems thus far with the install. It even detected my TFT monitor without an issue, which commercial versions like Suse9.2 failed to do. I guess I’ll have to see what happens over time, nothing is fullproof.