The previous saturday, I decided it was about time to install Ubuntu again. Since the last problem with my computer, I hadn’t installed it back because I was very lazy and because I never found time to do it. So, the last week I finished my first term exams (Which went out very screwed by the way) and I decided to do it again. As a not-so-important fact, I helped a friend to install Ubuntu in his lap, so I decided I wanted it too.
I downloaded an .iso from the server at UNAM (Mexico city) It took ages to finish because my ISP is an absolute crap. Somehow, I got it, burned it with IMGBurn, and I set off to install it. When I formated my lap, I made enough space on the disk to fit XP, my data, Ubuntu and lastly the Swap area, so the installation went on on rails. Once again, I was amazed. It took less than 30 minutes to install completely on my ext3 area, so I was kind of happy when it finished.
On my first boot, the first surprises arose, as always. 1024 x 768, no wi-fi card. So, I connected the ethernet cable, opened Synaptic and installed EnvyNG. Again. It took roughly 5 minutes to install my card, compared to 15 minutes on Hardy. Looks like the guys working with Envy are doing a huge progress.
The next (again..) was my wi-fi card. I installed NDIS Wrapper and went on flawless. After installing my wi-fi driver (using the GTK version because I was lazy) I had full signal from my router. The rest, was just software. After several tweaking, it took me something around 3 hours to have Ubuntu completely operational. Not bad at all. It took me more than 6 hours to get XP working, counting the time it took to install private software (Macromedia Studio 8, Corel, Office 2007) and getting Vista out of it.
So as that, I haven’t booted to XP unless it is completely necessary. Looks like Amarok now supports music transfer with artwork and videos, so I’m seriously thinking on stopping to use iTunes once and for all.
As soon as I get Amarok working completely with the iPod, I’ll be posting the how-to. Or a post saying that I couldn’t get it done… Also, I have some pending post (From 4 months ago XD) mainly about the XGL server, and main programs. Once again, I don’t have time for anything. I hate pretty much studying large amounts of information that I won’t fuckin’ use in my life. I’m off, I have the Organizational Computing exam. I already fear the Math and the Physics exams, so I guess this afternoon will be kind of… Helish.
