BobSolimeno
Bob Solimeno
Email: MailTo(solimeno@gmail.com)
21-Sep-2005 I successfully installed Breezy Badger preview on an otherwise unused IBM 300PL machine in our lab at work yesterday afternoon. I was impressed at how flawless the install went! This particular PC was sitting idle on a shelf for the past 18 months or so, and I felt it just needed some ubuntu. Now I can show my cohorts at work how wonderful Linux can be!
!! Interesting observation with my personal *very old* PC I have at home. When attempting to install Breezy Badger preview on this PC (300 MHz, 128MB ram, 40 Gig HD), using the very same install CD I successfully used at work, the system could not find the boot record on the CD. The intersting part is that the ubuntu "Live CD" that I had originally made the day before (Hoary Hedgehog) boots fine business! So, to make a long story short, I downloaded the iso image of Hoary Hedgehog
20-Sep-2005
- Previous experience with Slackware, Redhat, and Suse distributions on older, slow machines (i.e. 486 vintage,4-8 meg ram)
- Installed Debian Linux on a Sun workstation - OS worked nicely but with only 32MB of ram Xwindows was a bit sluggish
- Continued frustration with Win-doze and associated problems (spyware, viruses, sluggish performance) have driven me back to Linux
- Having newly discovered Ubuntu I am overjoyed and anxious to rekindle my enthusiasm for Linux
Desire to start a Local Community Team in Cincinnati, OH area and proliferate/advocate Ubuntu to friends & family
My current setup: Compaq Presario 2100US laptop with 40 MB HD/256MB ram running Win-doze XP home (pre-installed for me at purchase)
Upgrade path:
- Purchased Western digital 80GB drive/1 Gig ram
- Plan to install Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 onto new HD
- Will save old HD with XP OS and transfer data as needed
Future plans:
Purchase PowerBook laptop with OSX
- Contemplating dual boot setup (OSX/Ubuntu) for this future machine
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