News:
As some of you more than likely have noticed, Virtualbox does not like Unity. With Ubuntu's 11.04 alpha releasing just last week, many of us were sure to see about trying it out in Sun's little workstation. Though a minor setback considering the ability to live boot the system, many of us might not even have that luxury.
Grub2 is becoming a standard these days and because of that, .iso to usb converter software such as Unetbootin and dd fail to properly copy the .iso files from newer editions of certian distributions, Ubuntu included. It's a bit odd when you can't even install Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a netbook because the developers failed to realize that 80% of usb installation programs don't support Grub2 yet, much less their loop-around legacy grub settings.
Personal Introduction:
I personally own an Asus EeePC 1005HA, nine months old, the current setup is something similar to crunchbang but done manually. Debian testing + openbox and tint2, I'm not much for conky, it just really gets in the way and looks tacky when put in place with complicated wallpapers. That's not to say I'm not proud of what Crunchbang is doing... I just like my standard Debian and I like to be a bit proud of running it.
My main box is my Desktop, some parts are 3 years old, some less than 1:
Intel Q6600 @ 3ghz
2GB of Gskill 800 RAM
500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue
640GB Seagate Drive(which were prone to failure upon release... guess I got lucky)
AMD ATI HD5770 GPU
Turtle Beach Montego DDL PCI sound card
and a 550Watt Goodpower PSU
Pretty standard last generation stuff, still good for decent gaming and it never gives me much trouble. I run Arch linux here 99% of the time with a Debian stable install on another partition should anything go wrong. Arch is a good distro but I'm not saying it isn't prone to breaking every so often. It's the fastest ship in the fleet but it's not the best built but that's for another blog some other day.
That's really it for the hardware side... and I'll end the blog on that note. Can't tell everything first-off, can I? Leaves the fun out of it.
very cool. i am running some distro on my laptop but I forget what it even is, i never got into it. maybe with your blog i will find some inspiration.
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