http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/ Technology and other Interesting Stuff Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-87 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:17:11 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-87 [...] Now I’m probably biased on this, but dual booting a Mac between Mac OS and Windows with bootcamp, might help with application compatibility woes, but you’ve still got the thorny problem of open data access… and while we’re on this thought train, ubuntu doesn’t cut it because stuff doesn’t “just work“. [...]

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-86 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:01:50 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-86 No luck I have hardwired that laptop until I get a new card that has been shown to work.

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-85 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:00:57 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-85 Tom, did you get the Airport card working? I’ve tried several tricks on an iBook G3 beautifully running Ubuntu Dapper, but so far no joy.

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-84 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:51:50 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-84 My Thinkpad is an old T20 circa 2001. Everything worked great under Hoary Hedgehog 5.x. So I was surprised when it stopped working under dapper drake.

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-83 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:10:46 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-83 hmm…that’s odd, because i have an old Dell C600 running Warty (4.x) that automatically recognizes and configures my Lucent Orinoco Silver card with no effort required.

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-82 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:08:02 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-82 I’ve been installing various Linuxes on my various PCs since some odd Slackware version in 1994 (I didn’t download the 30 floppies, I got some guy named Hans to do that for me). Something always didn’t want to work. My next Unix will be MacOS X on a laptop and a server. I also plan on a Sun Solaris 10 SunFire machine in 2007 once there’s an FPU per core (thanks to your advice by the way). I’ll only do Linux if my business partners insist on an intel or amd. http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ Oh yes. But it only runs on Unix.

]]> http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/27/my-adventures-with-ubuntu/#comment-81 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:00:47 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=131#comment-81 Sure … Tim Bray gets a link.

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