Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Mandriva 2010
Although Mandriva 2010 was released a long time ago, I haven't had the time to upgrade until now.
Just like the last time, I received the message that "the system could not be safely upgraded to Mandriva Linux 2009" (yes, it did say 2009, probably someone overlooked that trivial bit). Nevertheless, as a professional penguin tamer, I decided to take the risk and continued. This time the estimated upgrade time was 5 hours. But in the end it only took about 1 hour and a half.
Brilliantly, the new system booted smoothly without any problems. Time to see what this great new system has to offer ;)
Just like the last time, I received the message that "the system could not be safely upgraded to Mandriva Linux 2009" (yes, it did say 2009, probably someone overlooked that trivial bit). Nevertheless, as a professional penguin tamer, I decided to take the risk and continued. This time the estimated upgrade time was 5 hours. But in the end it only took about 1 hour and a half.
Brilliantly, the new system booted smoothly without any problems. Time to see what this great new system has to offer ;)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was finally released last week, and I just managed to upgrade it today. Unlike Mandriva, to upgrade Ubuntu, I needed to use the alternate CD image instead of the normal one.
The upgrade took about an hour, which was actually quite long for such a newly installed system. However, on the bright side, it could be done while the system was running.
The Ubuntu guys boasted about the 10 second startup time. And in fact, my new system booted really fast. I doubt if it's as fast as 10 seconds though :P
There's a very annoying problem with the new Gnome button layout: the minimize, maximize, and close button are moved to the top left of the windows, whichever theme you use. A guide to fixing that problem is available here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/
The upgrade took about an hour, which was actually quite long for such a newly installed system. However, on the bright side, it could be done while the system was running.The Ubuntu guys boasted about the 10 second startup time. And in fact, my new system booted really fast. I doubt if it's as fast as 10 seconds though :P
There's a very annoying problem with the new Gnome button layout: the minimize, maximize, and close button are moved to the top left of the windows, whichever theme you use. A guide to fixing that problem is available here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/
Monday, March 15, 2010
Ubuntu
So I got a new laptop, and of course I installed another Linux distro on it. Ubuntu seems to be a very popular one now, so I decided to give it a try.
Gnome seems to have improved a lot since the last time I tried it on Fedora. After some modding it looks quite awesome now ;)
Another thing I like about Ubuntu is the free 2GB Ubuntu One space I can use to synchronize and share my data.
Is cloud computing really the way to go?
Gnome seems to have improved a lot since the last time I tried it on Fedora. After some modding it looks quite awesome now ;)
Another thing I like about Ubuntu is the free 2GB Ubuntu One space I can use to synchronize and share my data.Is cloud computing really the way to go?
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