Laptop Issues
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.
You posted something to MeFi about buying a new MacBook, including the comment that you don’t qualify for the educational discount…
I didn’t want to leave this comment there, but you should know that you can buy online through the Apple Education store and it doesn’t check to see if you’re actually a student. You can just pick any school and tell it that you are a student there. A guy at my local Apple store explained that to me, and I’ve done it successfully a couple of times.
The discount isn’t *that* great, but money’s money.
Good luck!
mccxxiii