[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Chris Puttick]

My Kubuntu Feisty Centrino dual core laptop is working just fine! The
only annoyance was getting the ATI graphics drivers working properly
(i.e. with the proprietary (but not for long) drivers).

It's nice to see this sort of reading in top on a laptop:

Tasks: 132 total,   2 running, 129 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu0  :  8.7%us,  1.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 89.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.7%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  4.0%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2074692k total,   513184k used,  1561508k free,     5124k buffers
Swap:   979924k total,   184060k used,   795864k free,   101044k cached

Maybe more effort is being expended making the laptop experience better?

Chris

On 12/07/07, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/11/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is part of what I wrote to Daniel: I'm delighted to report that
> > Ubuntu's installation from the desktop CD has improved with each release.
> > It was a good distro for newbies before, but now it's even better -- I
> feel
> > much more confident now that I can hand a CD to someone (except the
> totally
> > clueless) and they would be able to install it successfully without
> assistance.
> >
> >
> A caveat here. I use the Ubuntu-based MEPIS these days and love it. If
> you're interested in a relatively painless apt-get solution for newbies, try
> the Adept package manager, which is widely available
>
> But Ubuntu-based distros still have problems with many dual core, 64-bit
> Intel motherboards and chipsets. I happen to have one of them and neither
> Kubuntu or MEPIS installs were painless, mainly because Intel's Linux driver
> and BIOS support for my hardware is sadly lacking. In working around those
> problems, I learned searching on the web that these are commonly encountered
> install problems for Ubuntu-based distributions.
>
> Lessons learned: [i] check out new hardware compatibility even more
> carefully before buying it; [ii] installing an Ubuntu-based system isn't
> going to let you sidestep lesson 1; and [iii]  AMD has a big head start over
> Intel on dual core 64-bit Linux support.
>
>
>
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