Chris
Brad Campbell wrote:
> Well, I've gone and done it..
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> 10 years as a hard core Debian user is over! (Well, not really.. just tainted)
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> I went and bought a new Sony Vaio VGN-TX27GP ultra-lite laptop, and decided it might be time to
> investigate some of these new-fangled distributions.. you know, the ones with an integrated desktop
> that has a cut'n'paste that actually works, and mime-types that are registered and all that..
> Not wanting to stray too far away from God's own Distro, I grabbed a late beta of Ubuntu Dapper
> Drake and loaded it up..
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> Well, the power management works out of the box, as does wifi and bluetooth.. I've got a quirk or
> two with the volume management as this machine has separate volume controls for headset and
> speakers, no auto switching.. and I can't get the hardware volume buttons to to work... there are a
> few other minor things.. but colour me impressed..
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> Ubuntu's configuration of Gnome is just brilliant.. makes it dead easy to use.. and is nicely put
> together..
> I tried to install Kubuntu to test that, but I've not heard good things about it.. but it just kept
> locking up before it installed the bootloader..
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> I get a solid 5 hours battery out of this machine on wireless, and 6 if I have wifi turned off..
> going to grab an extended battery for it for those long plane flights..
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> I did do a bare debian etch install and configured it up with windowmaker (which is what I'm used
> to), but the amount of fiddling required to get everything working was such I just went back to
> ubuntu.. it "just works".. neato..
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> Happy as a pig in poo!
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Christopher Saul
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