It might have been the above average snow fall we were experiencing or perhaps I could blame it on the never ending political race for the White House that pushed me too far. In which case I should not be held blameless for my recent activities concerning Ubuntu. But the truth has more to do with the lure of open source software and the fact that I had good results on installing Ubuntu Studio on a desktop that caused me to install it along with Windows XP on an HP laptop. It was my first attempt at dual booting XP and Linux so it took a bit longer than it should of to get everything in order. After an hour or two I was ready and it booted into XP just fine but it would lock up going into Linux. After a quick search I found dozens of users having the same trouble with Ubuntu's Gusty kernel and HP laptops.
In the end I deleted the Linux partition and got on with my life and even though I am still interested in Linux, XP has just worked on everything I have installed it on. There are other flavors of Linux and maybe when I have more time I can try them out as well.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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