Re: Ubuntu 6.06 installed on laptop

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: "Chris" <http://www.picis.com/~Chris>
 > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:47:40 -0400
 >
 > Robert,
 > 
 > I decided to upgrade my Dell Inspirion 3500 laptop to have 256mb of ram
 > instead of 128mb.
 > 
 > Then I installed Ubuntu 6.06 since this version is a long term support
 > version.
 > 
 > It works and I was able to connect to the wireless network.
 > 
 > The only thing is that it doesn't recognize the sound device.
 > 
 > I thought I would let you know in case you might want to do the same
 > thing for your laptop.

Actually, I think my old laptop has bad memory.  So, about 1.5 months ago,
I bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed.  It works
great, except for a few hardware quirks (my external monitor doesn't go
into standby and my external mouse and keyboard occassionally just
cut-out/freeze).  I am slightly disappointed with some of the limitations
of the software (at work, I run xkeymacs which enables emacs on all my
windows -- there's nothing like that for Linux/Ubuntu), but otherwise
works great.  And since it's Debian (which I've been using for years),
it's all familiar.