Say Hello To Linux 3.0

Phorinx ^ | May 29, 2011 | Michael Larabel

[JerseyHighlander]

You want to install from USB.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

IT’s easy if your laptop will boot from USB through BIOS. And it’s faster than using a DVD due to better transfer speeds.

It’s not impossible if the laptop won’t boot from USB from BIOS, but somewhat difficult.

Depends on the manufacturer and motherboard, most modern PCs and laptops without an optical drive will boot from USB.

try the link above, freepmail me if you run into issues.

[2111USMC]

Thanks!

[2111USMC]

Thanks!

[dayglored]

> Yeah, this is only news that Linux nerds would care about, but I figured there were enough Freeper nerds who'd be interested. Hell yeah!

Re: names: "Nerd", "geek", whatever. I do computers, deal with it. :)

I expect the Golden Eagle to emerge any minute, squawking to remind us that Torvalds' parents were communists or whatever and that this has something to do with an operating system.

[zeugma]

Please don’t use the term “Nerd”. The word “Geek” is far more complementary.

Either one works for me. I've been a nerd pretty much all my life, since even before there was such a thing as home computers.

[zeugma]

Broadcom BCM4312 based wireless mini_PCI...fails.

Yeah, broadcom wireless sucks. You'll probably have to use the bcm wadcutter tool. It's a pain. I no longer buy any hardware that's not fully supported. I don't giving money to folks who don't support Linux.

[zeugma]

While I'm not a big Ubuntu fan, that's a nice advertisement. :-)

As for the 'swappiness' issue, my solution is to have so much ram that it's oozing out the back of the PC. My system almost never touches swap.

[zeugma]

They are like handy little swiss pocket knives. I have Kaspersky Antivirus in a Linux bootable CD. It goes out and
updates the virus signaures too, before it scans.

Sometimes it's the only way to save data from a windows box without physically pulling the hard drive.We had a guy at work a while back, who's laptop was well and truely toasted. Wouldn't boot 'safe mode', or from media. It looked like he was going to lose a lot of stuff until we popped in a live Linux CD, and was able to scp all his data to another box.

[zeugma]

Nice post.

Thanks. What's really nice is that the trolls haven't destroyed it. (yet)

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The least he could have done is put the new KDE-4 or Gnome-3 face on it.

You’re talking applications. They kernel is code that all the applications run on.

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Linus: NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a Gnome-3 here.

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Linus’s point escaped the original poster. Of course the kernel is the kernel and doesn’t have a desktop environment etc. What Linus was saying here is that 3.0 is evolutionary, not revolutionary - not that you can even speak in the same breath of a kernel and a desktop environment. The kernel can happily run in console mode and not have Gnome or KDE, or the kernel can happily run with some other desktop environment - basically the kernel doesn’t care.

[rdb3]

Please don’t use the term “Nerd”. The word “Geek” is far more complementary.

I'll personally take either/or. Guess I'm weird like that.

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.

Do it!

[Vigilantcitizen]

Doesn’t matter what the name on the check says...geek...nerd...dweeb..the bank still takes it.

Good to see ya rdb. Hope all is well.

[Myrddin]

Dell seems to have another wireless mini-pci card that can be substituted in the D820. I've seen one for sale on the used market for $19. That would be worthwhile. The b42-fwcutter just didn't produce a usable result. I might just fallback to plugging in a USB or PCMCIA card to restore connectivity.

[avg_freeper]

Thanks for that link!

I kept running into a problem when I tried to run any distro based on Ubuntu 11.04 . That link points out a specific problem with the SanDisk flash drive I was using and how to fix it. I couldn't get 11.04 LXDE to start before but now I'll give it another try.

I didn't have any problem getting #! to boot off the flash drive. What I couldn't figure out was more related to how I would install the distro on the netbook's hard drive in a more permanent fashion.

I was thinking I had to boot up with a disk utility to partition the drive for the linux install so as to not lose any Windows system files/user data.

But after some research it looks like I can adjust the partitioning from within Windows without data loss. I just need to figure out what format to use for the new partition and I should be set.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I don’t even have a swap partition. :-)

But I had to do that once I moved away from hard drives. I wouldn’t give up my SSDs for anything!