While waiting on the torrent of Jaunty for my PC I scrounged up another one for UNR. Tossed it onto a USB stick to see what all the fuss was about.
There was a problem with the release, so the img is available from ubuntu.com but the torrents didn't get generated. I snarfed one from Google and ran the checksums on it to cover my butt. Its not bad actually. I'm sending this from gmail on my work issued t40, the one with a bad monitor, missing keys, a dead battery, and a questionable hard disk. UNR actually works pretty nicely as far as my 15 minute poking shows. I actually like the desktop-as-application-menu. I kinda miss my pretty desktop, but having the stuff I need right there is nice. The iconified window bar also works very well as long as you know the icons for your apps. I can see it getting wierd with multiple instances of the same app, like lots of gnome-terminals. Open office (heaviest app loaded on this) comes up in about 15s. Not too bad. I'm sure that my janky t40 isn't exactly the target market. However, if we compare a "question-mark-pile" laptop to a netbook, its about the same thing. I think that UNR is a solid option for the tinkerer or cheapskate to keep old hardware usable. For some reason the same USB stick won't boot from my personal t40, just says "Boot Error". Its also a dumpster rescue but all of its major components work. The difference between the two seems to be that the work one runs the IBM boot utilities while my personal one just has the regular BIOS. Any ideas on my boot issue? Anyone else playing with UNR? -- ----- Jonathan Bartels
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