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I’ve been running Ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM ThinkCentre M51 I picked up from MicroCenter for $150 for a little over 2 weeks now. Almost flawless… I have a Belkin wireless card installed in the box, which as the Atheros chipset, which results in a lost wirelss connection after a few hours of use. Ubuntu 9.04 identified [ READ MORE ]
So, my attempt to get the E360 on Linux, while successful, was an exercise that didn’t result in much. Suse wouldn’t install, Ubuntu wouldn’t boot and gOS wouldn’t boot either (maybe because it’s a Ubuntu derivative?). I installed Puppy Linux and everything worked. The system just didn’t have enough horsepower to allow Pandora, so that pretty [ READ MORE ]
Attempted installing Ubuntu 8.10 and Redhat on an old Fujitsu E360 with no luck. I’m going to try Suse 11.1, OpenGeu and gos 3.1 next. I just want to run it to stream Pandora in the baby’s room, and occasionally look stuff up. I’m essentially trying to build a machine that will be used to run [ READ MORE ]
I finally got Ubuntu 8.10 running properly on my HP G60. My previous attempt was successful if it weren’t for the fact that Ubuntu didn’t like the nVidia graphics chipset. The system basicall ran un-accelerated, meaning it was a dog when it came to GUI updates. After Googling for a fix, I found someon’s blog that [ READ MORE ]
Searching high and low, I tried everything to stop by system from producing an annoying system beep from Linux running in VMWare Player. It was simple: sudo modprobe -r pcspkr For a more permanent solution, add blacklist pcspkr to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. See the Ubuntu tutorials for details. [ READ MORE ]
