My Ubuntu T40 laptop is “only MOSTLY dead”. The built in LCD display is too dark to read and I replaced it with a HP laptop running Vista Home Premium.
I feel slightly guilty about running Vista on it but it runs really well so ptthhhhppp. I put the T40 onto it’s docking station and hooked it up in the basement with the other equipment.
The upgrade was easy as usual. Just sudo su – and update-manager -d. It took a while to download the files but a reboot later and I’m running.
This new Ubuntu feels faster. It’s hard to really quantify that with old hardware, but it does. So far the only issue I have is that the spell checker in Firefox 3 beta 5 is broken sometimes (I had to use the one built into WordPress for this post).
It’s like a refined version of 7.10.
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