Slipping stitches leading to so slight a hole.

[reddragdiva]

I knew mjg59 knew far more about the Linux kernel than was probably healthy, but I didn't realise he actually did contract work for Canonical on Ubuntu. So yesterday's tech support was well worth a pint of Porterhouse Red.

It appears most of the problem was not that kernels past 2.6.8 will never work in the least, but just one kernel config option. (I don't remember which one or I'd tell you.) With that in place, the wireless card works and the laptop suspends. Things that don't work: the card doesn't autoconfigure to our network on boot and the network doesn't come back after suspend. (iwconfig wlan0 essid any then iwlist s may or may not work.) And sound doesn't work reliably either, though that's down to esd being shit (the cs4232 driver itself works fine). I shall be doing what I can to beat the card into configuring properly on boot and on return from suspend.

Note to Ubuntu: if you detect the screen at 800×600, why not set the font size to 8 instead of 10 or 12. Then users won't be wondering what it'd be like to have screen left to do stuff with.

redcountess loves Ubuntu for the games. So that's a reason to switch from Windows. Ubuntu looks like a very nice way to do Debian, which looks like the sanest way yet found to do L*n*x.

More domesticity today, including my own first batch of the scones. arkady can be very helpful to have around.

The Lee shoes didn't go, so we've relisted them. The hard drive went for a nice price (for an as-is) and the Docs for about the going rate. PalmOS 4.1 just a few hours to go!

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[vampwillow]

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop-without-working-screen last night and it went well (though seemed to take ages). Sadly, as it has no access to the network it isn't much more use!

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Not to fan distro wars, but anything Debian is making me cringe lately. Everything seems to come with every possible flavor of patch applied, and all the support fora I hang around in are picking up a mantra for Debian of "Here's a vanilla source tarball. Build that, and see if your problem goes away."

[reddragdiva]

Ubuntu has patches galore also, but that's in the cause of Stuff Just Working. Until it doesn't, of course, then you buy someone beer. The good stuff is in the package management system and how nicely maintained the Ubuntu repositories seem to be. Much like Debian, if it's open source, there will be a nice package; unlike Debian, it might be a version from the last year.

[steer.livejournal.com]

I really love Ubuntu I must say... It just works (for me at least).

[wednesday]

Ubuntu's tempting as hell -- apparently it runs gorgeously on older Powerbook G4 systems. On the other hand, L*n*x.

[reddragdiva]

GNOME 2 is like a Bizarro version of MacOS. It's almost slick.

(Windows is like a Bizarro version of itself, so KDE doesn't have to try very hard at all to be less painful.)

[wednesday]

But...but...but...

[redcountess]

Linus Torvalds has a Mac - admittedly he runs Linux on it, but still...

[wednesday]

Yeah, I know. Still.

I have been tempted to put Linux on my ipod, but don't tell anyone.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's been done; nadnad did it.

[reddragdiva]

It's how you play Oggs on an iPod ;-)

[wednesday]

Eh; don't have enough to worry about.

[wednesday]

Oh, I know it's been done. I'm just fighting the urge to do it.