Eddie's Fancy

My laptop is somewhere around seven years old. I can browse the web and compile simple programs but not much more without straining it to its limits. But right now I’m too cheap to buy a new one.

As such, I was disappointed to see the Fedora Core 7 upgrade script die with a fault. Not too surprising really, most upgrades don’t come out too well, Linux or Windows. I had backed up all my data files so I rebooted into a full install. I only have 192MB of RAM so the graphical install wouldn’t load, so I tried the text install, which died a horrible painful python exception just after partitioning and formatting my hard drive.

Lovely.

So, on to Ubuntu. Which wouldn’t boot from a CD. Great. Burn to a DVD and it boots but the graphical installer won’t load. So, download the alternative image, burn to DVD and now I’m up an running again. Although, I with their wireless network config manager had an entry for channel.

So far I like Ubuntu, which is not surprising since I’ve used Debian for years. Apt-get is definitely much faster than yum.

I think next time I’m buying a Mac.