Dan and Sara were over for dinner tonight, and as Dan and I were doing stuff on my laptop, I realized that I haven’t mentioned on here my recent migration to Linux on my laptop.
I currently still need to use Windows for work, since I’m doing .NET development in C#, but for pretty much everything else I am currently using the Ubuntu distro running in VMWare on my laptop, and it’s working nicely. Eventually, I may even want to switch to the other way around (Linux native and Windows in the VM), but I suspect I probably won’t do that for performance and compatibility reasons.
One cool tool that I have recently gotten used to using is rsync over ssh to publish web site updates to my servers. Now I can just code and test all my changes on my local server, and then just send only the differences up to the server for a quickly synchronized update.
If anyone’s interested, I’ll post more on this later, including why I chose Ubuntu, etc. Heck, I’m not fooling anyone - I’ll still post on it even if no one is interested….
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I think I only understand the first part of the first sentence. You should have seen these two, sitting on the couch all excited about buying a new user name. Like giggly 7 year old girls!
Not a “user name”, a domain name! Ha ha.
BTW, it was for renaming our Lost blog to underwaterhatch.com, which will end up making us a killing in ad revenue once they reveal it on the show (even though it’s completely theoretical at this point). Then we’ll see who’s laughing (or giggling)!
wouldn’t it still be you two (giggling)?
Oh, yeah… well at least we’d be giggling all the way to the bank!
yeah, it really worked out well for [insert simpsons domain here]
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.
Ubuntu 6 uses xorg, so I’d go for that one.
As for specific support, I’d try the ubuntu forums, which are excellent, and there are loads of good HOWTO docs out there about ubuntu and almost any common thing you’d want to do, including step by step walkthroughs. I’d start by doing a Google search for “HOWTO ubuntu ” + whatever you’re looking for. Substitute “dapper” for “ubuntu” if you’re using the latest stable release for more specific info.
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