An Impressive Week With Ubuntu
Blog I mentioned last week that I had loaded Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my older "test" laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110. I found the hardware management window, and according to that, there were only a few "problems" - the built-in softmodem...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog I have also installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron), and Mandriva Spring 2008, so I have a three-way boot selection now. Sometimes, in the middle of starting or running a program, it sort of "stops", thrashes around on the disk for a bit, if I try to...
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
Heron's Not So Hardy After All
Blog Take Six Annoyances In Hardy Heron, a blog post from a solid Ubuntu fan that details a number of places where the new distribution is notably worse than its predecessor. Is Ubuntu's Hardy Heron resting on its laurels?
[May 20, 2008, 16:10]
Atom Power Hits Town
Blog The machine was delivered with XP; I put Hardy Heron on under Virtualbox.and that ran perfectly well. As for performance and compatibility: graphics are a bit sluggish; you can see Windows redraw window content after you drag another window over...
[May 30, 2008, 17:50]
