Traditional wisdom has it that you have to keep buying ever quicker PC hardware to keep up with the ever-increasing demands Windows makes on system resources. What isn't so well known is that with Linux, having something a bit old and creaky around the kness might prove to be an advantage.
I've just been trying to install Ubuntu on my machine as a secondary boot option, but it keeps dying early in the installation. Various forums opine that the problem is caused by intel's shiny new processor and chipset being rather too shiny and new for the linux kernel to deal with it.
Wouldn't be so bad, except my 'spare' computer has caused two power supplies to explode rather vigorously. God knows what the neighbours will think.
Friday, 4 May 2007
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Dell are now installing Ubuntu on some of their kit, therefore it is probably less of a hardware issue than a beer issue...
My Mac works lovely. I'm a smug fuck.
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