Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Having had so much success with Ubuntu on the older "test" laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110), and not expecting to want to try Vista on the newer Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 again anytime soon, I decided to try installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog After several days of struggle, I am still unable to get a triple-boot disk set up on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
More Pleasant Surprises With Ubuntu
Blog If it continues to go this way, what I will probably do is try loading Ubuntu on the newer Lifebook S6510, and see how it works there. The Citrix Presentation Server Client is definitely much more stable on Ubuntu than it is on Windows.
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu And Windows XP Professional
Blog As always, I have started this on the older "test" laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110, which has an AMD Turion 64 CPU. I kept my "primary" Windows XP disk intact, by using a second disk drive which I had previously used to test Vista and...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Open Office To The Rescue
Blog I gave them the Lifebook S2110, running Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org, and they worked perfectly happily on it all evening. Because I don't work with Windows much any more, the last time I loaded Vista on this laptop I didn't bother loading most of the...
[September 26, 2008, 12:02]
OpenSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog The installation only took about 15 minutes on the newer Lifebook S6510 (Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz) laptop. As I told my brother (who is still using XP, and has sworn not to touch Vista until Hell freezes over), in many cases the average user who is...
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
Maybe Vista Really Is Getting Better
Blog This laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook S6510) has the optional 1 GB of "TurboMemory", and I can guarantee you that the previous times I ran Vista I could not see anything unusual about the suspend/resume speed.
[August 8, 2008, 7:51]
