Comments on: The penguin and me. http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm Father, husband, friend, follower of Jesus, pastor, church planter, student, poet, thinker, blogger, entrepreneur, catalyst, communicator Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Revival Blog » What They Say http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm/comment-page-1#comment-429 Revival Blog » What They Say Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:11:12 +0000 http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm#comment-429 [...] Finally, I am converting my laptop to Linux (ht: John).  If you have any advise, please chime in. [...] [...] Finally, I am converting my laptop to Linux (ht: John).  If you have any advise, please chime in. [...]

]]> By: John Baw http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm/comment-page-1#comment-428 John Baw Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:25 +0000 http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm#comment-428 Carl, I am NO expert (Believe me) but my switch to Ubuntu linux was as pain free as any windows installation I have ever done. All I did was download the CD (Its a LiveCD so you get to boot up from it, and play with it for as long as you want without having to install to disk) and follow the instructions! I use a Sony Vaio FX601 laptop (About three years old) and it loves Ubuntu Linux - I got rid of Windows XP altogether and just use Linux. My windows setup was just constantly grinding to a halt. I have managed to network it without any probs at work, I receive my Wi-Fi OK, I use its "OpenOffice" suite open and use Word/Excel docs and then save them back to Word/Excel. BTW, my brother's office was gutted by a fire recently and smoke damage ruined his PCs (Its OK - Insurance claim replaced everything) - he gave me one to see if could do something with it. Does it work with windows? - NOPE! Does it work with Linux ? - YOU BET! You may want to check out my del.icio.us links on this: http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/Linux http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/ubuntu Be blessed by the penguin! John. Carl, I am NO expert (Believe me) but my switch to Ubuntu linux was as pain free as any windows installation I have ever done. All I did was download the CD (Its a LiveCD so you get to boot up from it, and play with it for as long as you want without having to install to disk) and follow the instructions! I use a Sony Vaio FX601 laptop (About three years old) and it loves Ubuntu Linux – I got rid of Windows XP altogether and just use Linux. My windows setup was just constantly grinding to a halt.

I have managed to network it without any probs at work, I receive my Wi-Fi OK, I use its “OpenOffice” suite open and use Word/Excel docs and then save them back to Word/Excel.

BTW, my brother’s office was gutted by a fire recently and smoke damage ruined his PCs (Its OK – Insurance claim replaced everything) – he gave me one to see if could do something with it. Does it work with windows? – NOPE! Does it work with Linux ? – YOU BET!

You may want to check out my del.icio.us links on this:
http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/Linux
http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/ubuntu

Be blessed by the penguin!

John.

]]> By: carl http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm/comment-page-1#comment-426 carl Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:12 +0000 http://www.wildoxgib.com/2006/10/06/the-penguin-and-me.htm#comment-426 Couple of Qs. Did you do a second OS or is it the primary? Do you have a link to a tute on this? Did you have any problems with drivers? I have a Toshiba that I tried to do a disk restore but as it turns out the original restore disks are corrupt and they want $40 for replacements. (not) I was thinking of trying this but was afraid I would never be able to network again. Couple of Qs. Did you do a second OS or is it the primary? Do you have a link to a tute on this? Did you have any problems with drivers?

I have a Toshiba that I tried to do a disk restore but as it turns out the original restore disks are corrupt and they want $40 for replacements. (not) I was thinking of trying this but was afraid I would never be able to network again.

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