Tuesday, July 25, 2006, 01:28 PM - Computer, Linux
"linux is free and easy, so it must be a slut.." (from linuxsult.net)
http://linuxslut.net/album/linuxsluts/
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Monday, July 3, 2006, 03:53 PM - Computer, Linux
I've read an article in the c't magazine and they said ubuntu is a real debian system with many user-friendly configuration-tools, so you can decide how much debian you want to use. I think this is an interesting aspect speaking for the ubuntu-system.
But the last time I tried ubuntu (a half year ago) I was not satisfied because I found some inconsistences. I changed my password with passwd in the comandline but the password for the gnome system was still the old one (I was really confused). But in the last few tests I read about ubuntu it performed pretty good.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006, 04:07 PM - Computer, Linux
A friend told me had installed Ubuntu on his Laptop and almost all features work out of the box.
3d-acceleration, display, wlan, mouse, speaker loudness buttons, cpu frequency scaling
I was surprised when I heard about this installation-success. It seems that Linux improved very rapidly during the last half year.
<My opinion>
I think it would have been better if Marc Shuttleworth didn't have developed his own Linux OS and develop directly for Debian because Ubuntu is based on Debian. So I think the community would profit much more if they develop new features together. So they don't have to invent the wheel new.
I've seen some programms in my Debian installation which are from Ubuntu so perhaps the two distributions run together.
</My opinion>
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 02:29 PM - Computer, Linux
I set up an extra page for the Debian installation an a nx7000 here.
I installed debian etch via netinstal and made an dist-upgrade to sid.
Then i fetched the firmware (the driver has been instaled for default in etch) for the wireless lan card from ipw2100 an copied in the directory given in the documentation (/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ or /lib/firmware/ )and in the documentation are some important options for kernel compiling.
I compiled a kernel with help of debian-administrators and the options of the following intel article.
Really good article about Centrino Speedstep technology.
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/a ... .htm?prn=Y
Path where you can read and set the cpu-settings: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
Now I installed powersaved and kpowersave.
With aptitude install cupsys my Kyocera mita FS-1000+ works fine.
So far it's an pretty good linux (almost) out of the box.
the SD-card-reader
Here I found an interresting homepage: Winbond-howto
With
modprobe wbsd
modprobe mmc-block
it works
bluetooth (I don't testet it yet, perhaps it works already)
It works. But when I tried to compile the gnome bluetooth tool it wont work at all. (It's not available as an debian-package)
Things I'd like to work:
clone or enlarge the display (I've read this is possible with the X.org radeon driver or with an driver from ati)
The driver from ati wont work at my machine.
3D-acceleration
IrDA
special buttons (like suspend)
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