I think I spent part of thursday night, most of friday evening, and too much time saturday getting ubuntu installed on my computer. I suspect a flaky dvd burner drive. I painted it black when i got my coolermaster case last year and I guess it didnt like it. I also think for some reason ubuntu doesnt like my nvidia raid 0 setup and constantly complains about some i/o buffer error crap. The live cd would never boot for me and the new cd's dont include an old style installer anymore, that requires the "alternate install cd". Nice. I finally broke down and burned a dvd iso I had recently downloaded onto a dvdr and that one seemed to of worked for me. It seems if ubuntu was one of those "easy" linux distros, they would make installing the ati video driver easy. That took way too much tweaking. Ati has been lacking in the linux support. But anyways, got Gnome up and running. I can always install KDE later as I see fit. XGL still eludes me.Here's a screenshot from my 19" widescreen in all its glory.
Suprisingly the only icon on the desktop is our external 250 gig usb hard drive to keep all them pics that Becky keeps taking. We thought it would be best since even now cdr's have a lifespan of about 3-5 years and this is so much more quicker and convenient, and its good for backing stuff up.
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You BETTER not be using my picture storage hard drive as your back up. It is for PICTURES ONLY! Don't make me delete all your stuff now...cuz I will! :P~
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