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10 Jun 2006
A new version of Ubuntu (codename 'Dapper Drake') has been available for a little while, so I thought that it was about time to update Emperor to the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, I hadn't kept on top of releases, so I was a couple of stable versions behind---The Emperor was sporting 'Hoary Hedgehog', but had missed out on 'Breezy Badger'. I tried following the instructions for upgrading from an older version, but managed to mess something up somehow. Since I didn't have any important files on the laptop which weren't also backed up somewhere else, I decided to cut my losses and do and a clean install of Ubuntu 6.06.
Now, The Emperor is getting on a bit, and compiling from source is glacial. So it took most of the evening to get Ubuntu installed and running. It was well worth it though---the distribution is slicker than ever. However, the default Gnome desktop is a bit heavy going for my poor old laptop, so I decided to have a go at installing the cutting edge Enlightenment 1.7, otherwise known as E17 (not to be confused with the boy band). It was quite a task because there aren't any packages for Debian or Ubuntu yet, but I eventually got it going. I'm a big fan of Enlightenment: it looks gorgeous, and yet is surprisingly light on resource usage. E17 has some lovely visual effects, including animated desktop backgrounds, which sound like a nightmare, but are actually extremely attractive and not distracting. Better still, E17 is much more snappy on my machine than Gnome Desktop. My next task is to get Ruby, Rails and Subversion back on again so that I can do Tracks development on it.
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Ubuntu Dapper Drake is great. The more I play with it the more I wish I would've installed that on Envy (Fedora Core 5).
They made some right decisions like installing the real version of java not the gcj version like Fedora did where only Open Office works. Also, automatix is nice, it basically installs all the codex's you might need. Its just very well put together.
--Andy
P.S. - I like finding out what people name their computers or what their naming scheme is. I used to name mine after mythical creatures (e.g. - pegasus, cerberus, griffin) but now I do the seven deadly sins. My WinXP computer is Hubris and my other box is split, Linux is Envy and Win2k3 is Greed.
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by Julian @ 11/06/2006 11:06 am • Permalink •
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Jonathan Briggs: I know, the names are a bit mad. I don't know if the alliterations are compulsory, but they are certainly deliberate.
Andy: I haven't tried automatix yet---I'll have to give that a go. For your information, my computers are named after species of penguin: hence, Emperor, Rockhopper, and Macaroni, plus Humboldt and Little for some external hard drives. I've yet to get a Fairy.
Julian: Nope. A Linux distro 
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heyas all.
my 40 gig drive is going to good use now. I have installed UBUNTU and have ordered KUBUNTU.
I dont know how to install the driver for my ati radeon 9600xt.
Actually i dont know if i am meant to be downloading and installing XFREE86 or the XORG version of the driver. I am downloading them both but i dont know how to do anything in Linux really.
I dont know where I am meant to set up my modem or set up a net account. (no INETWIZ.EXE)
So yeah, can someone help me out with getting my ATI driver installed?
and does anyone know of a good long PDF file i can read and wrap my brain around.
I'm still a Windows user, but I want to use Linux as much as possible.
Thanks. 
by miss tress @ 18/10/2006 1:11 pm • Permalink •
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What are you talking about? It sounds like West Africa meets Lord of the rings for a curry in Birmingham (Assuming "Going out for a ruby" means the same in Birmingham as London)
Ubuntu, Breezy Badger, Voluntary Vole, next you'll be re-installing Roland Rat and we'll all have to go back to 1980s AMTV!
Incidentally; are alliterations compulsory?
by Jonathan Briggs @ 10/06/2006 4:07 pm • Permalink •