Ubuntu

Finally, somebody has created a fix for suspend to RAM for the HP nx7400 laptop.

Stephane Graber here wrote the fix. So wahoo. :)

Did you know that apt-get in Ubuntu had an easter egg?!

Try running apt-get moo and see what you get.

Ubuntu have today released Feisty Fawn. Lots of new features. One of the features I like the look of is this,

"Windows migration tool: The new migration tool
recognizes Internet Explorer bookmarks, Firefox favorites, desktop
wallpaper, AOL IM and Yahoo IM contacts, and imports them all into
Ubuntu during installation. This offers easier and faster migration for
new users of Ubuntu and individuals wanting to run a dual-boot system."

This tool will hopefully get more people saving the cost of upgrading to Vista and moving over to use free Open Source software.

For a full list of new additions to Feisty Fawn have a look here

So as you know I got a new laptop supplied for work. One of the down falls to this was having to have it turn up with Vista on it. No dramas, we can re-size the partition and then it will have Ubuntu installed on it. Great. I've now been using Ubuntu more on the laptop than Vista. It's easier to do things. I've resized all of the images that we took in NY (blog to come about New York when I get time. Have a look at the pictures here, My Gallery), all through command line and it doesn't take long at all. In Windows you'd need to have Adobe Fireworks, and go through everything.

So running Ubuntu you get all the software you could ever want for free. One of these being some software called MythTV It's awesome. I've been playing around with it on my laptop and it runs so quickly. It has a MySQL backend to it as well. It's now tempted me to buy a TV tuner for my Media Center that is hidden behind the TV and is now having Ubuntu installed as well speak. Although we are now going through the 2nd install attempted as it seems to have a problem with the ACPI on this motherboard. Before I was able to start installing Ubuntu though it seemed that my media center decided to have a bit of a fit, all usb ports stopped being picked up by windows and the PS/2 port decided that it would be a bad idea for it to work. So we are now using a new(ish) Mother board. Lets hope I can get it working!