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With the release of the new version of Ubuntu last Thursday, as usual I was quick to upgrade.  I’m always an early adopter of these things, probably helped by the fact that its free
As is normal, a new release of Ubuntu always captures a lot of attention, and with this release, it was [...]

Well, I took the plunge over the weekend and upgraded my laptop to the new Ubuntu 9.04.
Fortunately all seems to have gone smoothly. All the main stuff was working happily on reboot, even my wifi. I’m not sure what’s actually been changed in this release, so I’ll need to go through it more [...]

Well, as the counter on the right shows, the release of Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope is happening any time now.
As always, I’m excited to see what the new distribution has to offer over the previous version, however this time I find this tinged with caution, as previously my main installation was on the second [...]

I was listening to the latest Linux Outlaws podcast, and they mentioned a new gizmo called SheevaPlug.
That looks really cool.  Hope we get them over here at somepoint, as I would be very tempted to get one.   Granted, there’s only one USB port, but I could really see myself plugging in a USB hard disk [...]

Its been a thorn in my side for months now, but yesterday I thought I’d have another stab at getting my wifi working on my laptop (glutton for punishment, I know) yesterday. Imagine my surprise when, on booting, the wifi connected no problem.
Despite not working on its initial install, it now seems quite happy. [...]

I got around to quickly installing Intrepid on my laptop last night, but with the usual mixed results sadly.
Most hardware was detected and works out of the box no problem (graphics, sound etc), but networking is still an issue. The restricted drivers manager did ID my wireless card no problem and installed the driver [...]

Well, as the countdown I posted on the blog should be indicating, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released today.
I’m always quick to nab new updates and try out the new stuff, so I upgraded my PC straight away, and the good news is that so far it seems to have been a painless process. [...]

I’m a glutton for punishment I think. I’ve blogged about this before, but I’ve been having another crack at getting the wifi to work on my laptop under Ubuntu again.   I really can’t figure it out.
With ndiswrapper, I get my broadcom card’s drivers installed.  Near as I can tell, this definitely works. [...]

So, I decided to take the plunge, and partition off a small (couple of Gb) Linux system on my laptop, to see if it would be usable enough to replace Windows on it.
So, I put on Ubuntu 8.04, and in fairness to it (you can tell this is going to end well ), most [...]

That was typical.   No sooner had I finished that last post, and my Ubuntu updates dialog popped up again.   I let it grab the latest Gnome updates, and then it went about configuring everything.  Including the kernel updates that hadn’t been properly configured last time.
Turns out the issue was that when they’d first installed, I [...]