July 27, 2006
mitch @ 6:19 pm on July 27, 2006
I’ve been wanting to run Ubuntu for a while so I can see what all the talk is about. First I was saying I would after I got my RHCE, well I did that then I still kept putting it off, then I changed jobs and and put it off even more… Now I finally bought my own laptop and I was still contemplating installing Fedora just because I need Oracle for school. Well, Ubuntu works out of the box with the wireless card on my laptop, and fedora doesn’t. As my previous post stated, I was having problems getting it to work. And it was turning into a very hacked up install to get it to “sorta” work. When I could get it to work, it was still alot of command line tweaking to get it running and I really don’t want to do that all the time. So…. I checked out and to get Xen working on Ubuntu is just installing a custom kernel, which is no big deal, or VMWare also installs on Ubuntu so… I’m set, I reinstalled Ubuntu 6.06(Dapper Drake) At work today, and got it updated… fixed the minor issue with NetworkManager (which just needs to recache a pix directory in gnome?) And so far so good. I got all the multimedia stuff installed but I still need to test it. And I have a pretty slick theme going I’ll post a screen shot in a bit. Anyway VMWare is downloading, and since its free, I should be good to go.
Anyway, all in all, I’m liking Ubuntu. I’m not sure if its because of this latest and greatest release or what… but so far its excelent.
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July 26, 2006
mitch @ 1:49 pm on July 26, 2006
Why is it these hardware manufacturers have such a hard time letting go of this idea that they’ll loose something if they were to let the linux community distribute their drivers, or even more… if they’d just release the specs for their wireless hardware and let the open source community develop the drivers independantly. Anyway, I’m documenting my setup on my Lenovo N100 page. Check it out for my final how-to on getting wireless to work in hopefully an easily maintainable way.
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November 5, 2005
mitch @ 5:27 pm on November 5, 2005
I’ve been running Fedora for a while now, both at home and on my work machine. Up untill Core 4, the repositories used for the extra packages that are not included with Fedora were excellent. However, both boxes I have, are getting quite messed up when updating… Its becomming extremely annoying. So annoying that I’m considering switching distro’s again. Possibly going back to Gentoo. With gentoo’s massive software collection, and having it at my fingertips ready to be compiled. If you remember I ran gentoo a year or so ago on my home machine for a while… untill some file system corruption that I blamed on my configuration of Gentoo. Had I known then it was because my harddrive was dieing I might not have been so hasty in making the switch. There were other things that made me make the switch as well however. Such as the Cisco VPN client. New developtments in software packages however, have added an option for vpnc. Which is an open source project that is compatible with the Cisco VPN concentrator we have at work. I still need to test it for myself to make sure I’m able to connect with it, but it will probably be the thing that allows me to go back to Gentoo. With Gentoo, using all the questionably legal software on linux becomes *MUCH* easier because they’re still in portage, and no third party repository is needed. So I won’t experience the problems I’ve had currently with Core 4. (Like I said before, using the same repositories now, as I did with core 3… and I never had these problems with core 3.) I’ll let you know how it goes.
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June 30, 2005
mitch @ 3:38 pm on June 30, 2005
Fedora Core 4 has been out a while, and repositories are just starting to pop up for it finally. Seems theres problems with the move to GCC 4.0 and getting things to compile. Other than that, I’m really liking it. I haven’t made the move on my home PC yet, but I’ve been running it here at work for some time (since test 2 i believe…) and I’ve had it on my laptop since test 3. Major updates include Gnome 2.10, GCC 4.0, and more enhancements to SELinux. Worth the upgrade? I would say yes. Mostly for cosmetic reasons tho. I loved how it detected and even would allow me to install over my Cisco 340 Aironet wireless card at work. I was amazed (since Ubuntu could do it figured Fedora should too!). I’m loving NetworkManager. I finally can confidently say Linux does wireless as easy (i think its actually easier) as windows. (When the card is supported…) Anyway Props to the developers for another great release! I’ll be posting more on my bro’s install for his new Athlon64 and an ATI Express200 board, and a SATA Drive using the SB400 chipset.
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January 28, 2005
mitch @ 10:07 am on January 28, 2005
I haven’t updated in a while because my home computer has been out of commission for a while… Not sure what happened… For some reason, both Gentoo, and Fedora have corrupted ext3 partions on my computer… Not sure if its because of the via_sata driver, hardware, or a combination of them. Any how, this last time, it corrupted my home partion and I had fsck running but it was taking *days* to run. I even stoped it and restarted it from a knoppix CD, and the fedora disk 1. They all took forever, and still didn’t seem like it fixed anything when they were done. So, I lost everything…. I hadn’t bought the Dual DVD/CD burner yet, so I didn’t have any backups… which is completely my fault. Anyhow, this time around I’m going with a different filesystem for my home partion. XFS is what I desided to go with. I did some research a while ago and looked into its benifits and it seems to have quite a few. Dispite not being officially supported by Fedora, I think it will be able to handle my 107GB partion better than ext3. ReiserFS would have been my other choice, but found on the fedorafaq site that SELinux won’t work on anything but ext3 and XFS. That sealed the deal, XFS it is. I’m currently loading it up right now, so far so good.
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November 18, 2004
mitch @ 8:01 pm on November 18, 2004
Well, my wife could really use Windows for school… (some of the DVD’s and CD’s she has for studing only work on windows or mac…) so, I thought I could run VMWare which would also allow me to play some games online with guys from work. I attempted the install in Gentoo, and the installer asks for the /etc/rcX.d directories, and since gentoo doesn’t have them, i thought I could get away with creating some sym links to the directories they do have…. well, that ended up completly messing up my / partion…. So, instead of reloading Gentoo again and taking a couple days and then somehow maybe getting vmware to work. I desided to load Fedora Core 3. Since it was just release a week or so ago. I’ve been running it at work since the day it came out, and have really liked it. So I installed it and to my suprise I was able to load it in under 10 minutes. The SATA drives performance supprised me 
Anyway, loading VMWare from Core 3 so far has been cake. Just need to load an OS.
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