Yes folks – Today the fine people over Linux Mint have released there next version entitled Linux Mint 10, which is based on Ubuntu 10.10 but with the added goodness that is Mint. You can find all the relevant Info www.linuxmint.com, which at the time of writing this post is slow due to the large number of people hitting the site.
I have a desktop machine which I use purely for Linux, the specifications are Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz, 5GIG Ram, 80Gig Hard Drive, 19″ Widescreen TFT and nVidia 7600GT Graphics card. The on-board network has failed and it has an Intel gigbit server card installed (which Windows 7 will not recognise) and a PCI 54G Wireless Card. I had tested Fedora 13 on VMWare and liked the look of it – I set about wiping the present Ubuntu 10.10 and wanted to use Fedora instead on this machine – this is were it started to go wrong..
I came across this operating system and to put this into context, it is based on Ubuntu 9.04 and designed for netbooks small screen size from the ground up. I have briefly tried this on my netbook and for most part worked as expected, it would have been ideal if my netbook had a touch screen to be honest though.
I dug out yet another Old Laptop – this time A Dell Latitude C840. The Tech specs I shall post in one second but for this exercise, I choose to download Ubuntu 10.04 Beta One (been new and all) and went to work installing Ubuntu plus working with Compiz to give me a radical 3D Desktop – this was not to be as you shall soon find out..
I remember buying this laptop back in 2001, I had just started a contract position were I was doing project management and required my own computer. I was in Dixons in MeadowHall and they had this laptop on offer at a much reduced price (cannot remember the price I paid back then). My thought was it was made by Toshiba and would do the job specified. I recently grabbed this machine out of storage to see what I can do with it – I had an idea to use it for a Linux box of some sort.
EggDrop: Eggdrop is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) program for Linux or UNIX users that sits in the background of an IRC Channel to manage and protect a chat. Eggdrop, sometimes referred to as a “bot” (short for “robot”) program, allows the chat manager to keep a list of users, erase users who haven’t been on the channel within a specific time period, keep a list of users who have been banned, prevent channel flooding, and perform other common chat channel management tasks. In this guide, I shall merge the one already online with my own additions to get it up and running.
On my trial to run Ubuntu 9.04 64bit for main use on my Laptop and reporting back on really how close it can come to a complete experience as a desktop machine and that I worked with Steve from The Tech Buzz to get Ubuntu netbook remix working a treat – read on to find out how it all went…
Can Linux (in this case Ubuntu) be installed on a machine, use all of the Ram, have better graphics and be able to do everything you require without any major hangups or having to jump to the console to perform black magic? I shall go through how it has worked out so far on a Laptop running 64Bit version and used on everything that I do to see how to copes.
