Enough is enough. No more Ubuntu for me. I used it for just over two months. It’s a great distro, just not for me. I finally realized this experiment was over when Ubuntu managed to change the file system to read-only while I was in the middle of working on stuff. After that it wouldn’t boot. Because I had been working on a remote box and I didn’t have access to my ssh keys, I resorted to using Knoppix to chroot into Ubuntu so I could ssh to the remote box and finish my work.
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It’s starting to become clear that Lucy’s change in behavior is the result of hormone changes. In fact she’s acting as though she just had a litter of puppies. What might a dog do who just had a litter of puppies? Well said dog would lick and bury everything. We can’t give Lucy anything without her burying it.
She also is a licking machine. She’s taken quite a liking to Lisa’s down coat on the futon.
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It seems I’m a gluten for punishment. I couldn’t resist the urge to
apt-get upgrade This time the ramdisk survived, but madwifi-ng did not. In fact the 2.6.20-9 kernel doesn’t even seem to have madwifi-ng support at all. No wifi for me :/
On a much more important note, this morning we had to rush
Lucy to the vet for emergency surgery. We had noticed that she wasn’t acting right late Sunday.
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I’m finished with my Ubuntu testing. It’s a very nice distribution, but not one for me. Next I’m going to spend a little time with Fedora. I used Redhat back in the day. In fact it was the first Linux distribution I ever used. I figure since my employer uses it I might as well learn what it feels like today :)
It’s been a fun winter the past few weeks.
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Today I was prompted via the notification area that 16 updates were available. I took them (via Synaptic) after which I rebooted the system. Upon bootup grub complained about an “Inconsistent filesystem” regardless of the kernel I chose. Evidently Ubuntu ate my ramdisk again sigh
I’m honestly afraid to let apt update my ramdisk/kernel again. Before I was 50/50 on using Ubuntu for the desktop. That number has definitely slipped to around 20% now.
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Today I needed to upgrade to Python 2.5 so I could work on work stuff. Earlier in the day I had upgraded my Gentoo box at work to use Python 2.5 - piece of cake. It seems that in Ubuntu land you currently don’t get Python 2.5 unless you’re tracking the “Feisty” sources. So I went on to update my sources and use Synaptic to update everything. It finished up by throwing some errors about being unable to finish due to “unresolvable errors “.
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Today I set out to get my own software running. This included dependencies like:
Apache Mod_python Postgresql Tsearch2 Psycopg2 elementtree Simplejson Matplotlib Apple I wasn’t difficult to install and configure things, though it obviously felt different than it does on Gentoo. Honestly things seemed less organized, though that’s likely because I know Gentoo so much better.
I have not been successful in getting mail-notification to work. Poking around it seems the imap ssl support is disabled, and people recommend installing from source.
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Install was flawless
Wifi worked perfectly without doing anything (curious what it’s using.
IBM Thinkpad buttons work, and even have graphical candy (volume)
I wanted to enable flash for Firefox:
Update /etc/apt/sources.list adding support for multiverse
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Accept license
“automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes”
apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
Restart Firefox, no love
Ubuntu forums mainly talk about using Adobe’s installer, or copying the .
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