How can a place that is about Linux news be so, Linux distribution unfriendly. not the site itself, but the people who comment. Seems that it should rename itself Lxer: Let's not talk about Ubuntu. Oh, no now I've gone and equated Linux with Ubuntu.

Once again Microsoft is interfering the pc market by declaring that in order to sell a UMPC, it must meet specifications that they set. What a joke.

Convicted Monopolist Microsoft

Just booted my laptop off the newest Ubuntu . Good to see everything worked, including the 3-d effects on the Intel GM965 graphics controller.

I'm playing with open mesh routers. If you are near me, log on to the eschreyer-open-mesh network and get your free wifi.

This notebook rocks. Time from boot to Ubuntu Linux 20 minutes. Time to correct my mistake in giving that other OS to much space, another 20 minutes (I just reinstalled). Number of hardware issues, zero. Yes, you read that right, everything worked, and that is a testament to the hard working Linux kernel developers. Great job guys.

Specifications

CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
RAM: 2GB
HD: 120GB 7200RPM SATA
LCD: 12.1"
chipset: Intel 965GM
Batteries: 2200mAH
3 USB 2.0 ports and 1 Firewire port and 1.3 Mpixel webcam

Just saw an add for silverfish...er light on http://sourceforge.net and it was an Adobe Flash ad.

I bought my daughter a Lenovo 3000 N200 for Christmas (the non core 2 duo one). It was cheap and ran the Kubuntu LiveCD without issue. Installed Ubuntu 7.10, did have some issues with the sound and had to edit the alsa config and add one line to get it to work (newer hardware I guess). Also had to load the BCM43XXX firmware to get the wireless to work. New hardware is always fun, easiest installation of Linux to date.

Great notebook and so far no problems, Ubuntu rocks.

I did say this was a short review...

PS I kept the Windows Vista Home Basic partition and all I can say is woof woof. People actually put up with this when they buy a computer? If I didn't know any better I would have thought that the mouse cursor was an arrow with a glowing circle. You'd think with 2.5GB ram it would be fast. My Dell C600 700MHz about to die any day now laptop is faster.

All this hype about how the Apple(tm) Mac(tm) is better than Linux, Windows and sliced bread has now been completely proven wrong.

Trying to help the smarter one in the family produce CDs of pictures of the homeschool history she has been doing for the past six months, and let me tell you the Apple UI is a CF (I'll let you guess what that means) of poor design.

You can't burn a copy of an iPhoto(tm) slide show to CD. You can burn an album, but not a slide show. If you burn an album you get a bunch of directories and several copies of your images.

I got tired of the wammers (web spammers) from russia (nothing against the Russian people) trying to create accounts. So, if you want an account to either abuse me for my obtuse/idiotic rants, correct my spelling/grammer, post actual useful content then send me an email (I'll let you figure out the email address) declaring your un-dieing love of Linux and your relationship to Columbus Ohio and I will grant you an account.

What! Shouldn't the GPL licensed be licensed under the GPL? Shouldn't you be free to modify it to your hearts content? After all everybody seems to think that they need the right to modify every bit of software code, so why not the license that gives you that right. Oh, wait, YONAL so you wouldn't even think of modifying it.

(If you can't tell I'm being sarcastic)