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PC World Community: HOWTO: Setup a Linksys WPC54G v3 …
pcworld.com – Feb 20, 2007
1 Ubuntu Linux have a come along since it Warty Warthog days. The desktop is now really really refined and its packages despite some being bleeding edge, are very very stable. 06 or fondly called as Dapper Drake is known to have Long Term Support (hence the LTS in its name), I still prefer using the latest build, in this case, is Ubuntu 6…
The desktop is now really really refined and its packages despite some being bleeding edge, are very very stable. 06 or fondly called as Dapper Drake is known to have Long Term Support (hence the LTS in its name), I still prefer using the latest build, in this case, is Ubuntu 6. Now, while most of the functionalities of my laptop, worked out of the box, I found out that my wireless PCMCIA card, a Linksys WPC54G version 3. 0 card, did not work out of the box. So i triffled through the Ubuntu Community Support Forums and I found this entry — How to: Broadcom Wireless card.
Can’t boot off non-OS X CD
MacNN – Feb 20, 2007
At first it refused to boot from any bootable CD, but I have since been able to boot from my retail Panther discs without issue. I cannot, however, boot from any other bootable disk. I’ve tried four different releases of PPC Ubuntu to no avail. If I do an option+boot to bring up the little device selection screen, if I select the CD (the screen shows a hard drive icon with a blue X logo and a CD icon with a Tux logo, so it knows it’s there) and click the arrow to continue, the screen appears to lock up for a minute, blinks, and displays the device selection screen with wonky colors on the drive icons. It absolutely refuses to boot from a Linux disc. I also used my boyfriend’s PowerBook G4 to try and install Linux via firewire target disk mode. It got about 90% through the installation and failed with an undefined "fatal error" type thing…
I’d really love to get Linux installed on this thing, since OS X is pretty slow on it and I’m not too interested in going back to OS 9 – I have little experience with that OS and the freeware I’ve found is nearly all OS X-only. Does anyone have any ideas why the drive would boot so selectively? I’m going to assume that it started booting from OS X CDs because of an OS update, since the firmware was up-to-date before. Is there something special I need to do to make the bootable Ubuntu ISO work? I’ve always burned it in Disk Utility – I haven’t done it on a Windows machine yet, I don’t think. Advice is, as always, greatly appreciated.
Dell Gives Desktop Linux Its Full Attention
eWeek – Feb 21, 2007
Dell is taking it seriously. In a brief e-mail exchange with Bob Pearson, Dells vice president of corporate group communications, said, “Youre right that Linux is one of the hottest topics on Idea Storm. Specifically, users wanted the Top 3 free Linuxes—Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE—offered as selections for the Dell desktop. The Linux option was almost twice as popular as the next option, which was to have OpenOffice pre-installed instead of Microsoft Works, or a trial version of Microsoft Office. After that, the fourth most popular option was for Dell to offer a laptop with Linux pre-installed. The fifth on the list was, if Dell couldnt offer Linux pre-installed, to start offering systems without any operating system. Dell has long offered workstations with Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux WS 4 installed.
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