It took me about 2 years to get back to the scene again. And the most ironical part is that I am doing this during my Mid-Sem exams .... hehe ... but then as they say ... fact it stranger than fiction .... fiction has to make sense ...
So what brings me back here .... A good internet connection and a head bored of studying and with lot 2 tell abt its expts with Intrepid Ibex .... Ubuntu's latest distro.(Yes its still the latest stable release)
So what is interesting ... firstly the graphics .... quite beautiful this time ... with some really cool workspace and window switching graphics ... Check out here
But inspite of this I still have a dual boot system with Vista Ultimate .... and its not just the MS compatible programs that are holding me back ... I still cant see the elegance of Vista in Linux ... neither Ubuntu nor any other .... Applications like Firefox or ThunderBird look so much more elegant in Vista but unfortuately not in Ibex ... but then thats OK and I can live with that .... Just a tht ... its my blog right ;)
And although almost everything worked out of the box .... 2 things caused me a lot of pain ....
1. My wifi card Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 was not detected ... Took me quite a while before I could fix it. You may find more details here and how I fixed it
I needed a firmware upgrade
2. I am behind a proxy server in my university which need authentication and the network authentication part of Ubuntu is still buggy continuing its legacy from 8.04 .... It cant handle 'dot' in login name ... and God knows may be in password also ... I have filed a bug in bugzilla ... but I dont know if they will fix it sometime soon .... Fortunately for me a friend of mine has lended me his non-dot containing login name and password for my linux use .... GOD must be in his finest mood [generally] when he decides hostel life for some1 .... May be if possible I may someday look into the code myself and try to fix it and win the coveted title of a contributer to Linux .. ;)
Well enough for today ....I have not been able to study since I have installed Linux ... (Billy u listening ... I have something against Linux u may use) ... Have been playing with it all day and nite .... personalizing it and fixing issues ....
Hope my next post will be pretty soon ... Not after another 2 years ... Kip checking
Cheers
PK
So what brings me back here .... A good internet connection and a head bored of studying and with lot 2 tell abt its expts with Intrepid Ibex .... Ubuntu's latest distro.(Yes its still the latest stable release)
So what is interesting ... firstly the graphics .... quite beautiful this time ... with some really cool workspace and window switching graphics ... Check out here
But inspite of this I still have a dual boot system with Vista Ultimate .... and its not just the MS compatible programs that are holding me back ... I still cant see the elegance of Vista in Linux ... neither Ubuntu nor any other .... Applications like Firefox or ThunderBird look so much more elegant in Vista but unfortuately not in Ibex ... but then thats OK and I can live with that .... Just a tht ... its my blog right ;)
And although almost everything worked out of the box .... 2 things caused me a lot of pain ....
1. My wifi card Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 was not detected ... Took me quite a while before I could fix it. You may find more details here and how I fixed it
I needed a firmware upgrade
2. I am behind a proxy server in my university which need authentication and the network authentication part of Ubuntu is still buggy continuing its legacy from 8.04 .... It cant handle 'dot' in login name ... and God knows may be in password also ... I have filed a bug in bugzilla ... but I dont know if they will fix it sometime soon .... Fortunately for me a friend of mine has lended me his non-dot containing login name and password for my linux use .... GOD must be in his finest mood [generally] when he decides hostel life for some1 .... May be if possible I may someday look into the code myself and try to fix it and win the coveted title of a contributer to Linux .. ;)
Well enough for today ....I have not been able to study since I have installed Linux ... (Billy u listening ... I have something against Linux u may use) ... Have been playing with it all day and nite .... personalizing it and fixing issues ....
Hope my next post will be pretty soon ... Not after another 2 years ... Kip checking
Cheers
PK
