{"id":55,"date":"2008-11-12T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/12\/ubuntu-8-10-on-my-dell-inspiron-1525\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:30:22","slug":"ubuntu-8-10-on-my-dell-inspiron-1525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/ubuntu-8-10-on-my-dell-inspiron-1525\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1525"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a new laptop about a year ago directly from Dell<\/a>. I did this for two reasons, they had a good deal, and I wanted to support a company that supported Linux! So far I’ve been very impressed, it worked right out of the box and about the only thing that I did to it in the first few months was upgrade the OS to 7.10 (Gutsy).<\/p>\n

Of course, that didn’t last long. I soon started messing around with beta versions of Ubuntu<\/a>, doing some messy upgrades and installing patches in a fairly piecemeal fashion. After about 9 months of this and breaking various things, 8.10 (Intrepid) came out and I decided a fresh install was called for.<\/p>\n

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After backing up any files I needed (and took the opportunity to get rid of a lot of rubbish I’d accumulated on the harddrive) I booted up from a fresh Ubuntu 8.10 DVD. After a fairly standard install which has been documented in many places on the web, I booted into a fresh copy of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

All I can say is, fantastic, everything just worked. Even down to pairing up one of my bluetooth headsets and being able to use it automagically in Skype<\/a>. The only thing that I would like is the ability to specify LDAP authentication as part of the installation process. I had the option many years ago with Mandrake\/Mandriva, but for some reason Ubuntu is lagging behind.<\/p>\n

This brings me to a point. Even a long term Linux user is still shocked that an install on a supported laptop worked flawlessly. I think that if Linux gets to the point where I am shocked that something doesn’t<\/em> work as it should, then Linux is ready for prime time. Tho’ on that note, we’re still waiting for Windows to get to that stage!<\/p>\n

About the only main configuration that I’ve done so far is LDAP authentication<\/a> with credential caching<\/a> incase the network isn’t available. The last thing that I want to get working is some form of syncing for some of the more critical configuration files, such as my pgp keyring, mail config and bookmarks.<\/p>\n

As far as Ubuntu is concerned, 8.10 is a great step forward. Bluetooth works well, hot plug of devices detects the correct type of device and offers various options. Network Manager has taken a great step forward with, for me, just the addition of being able to configure a mobile phone as a bluetooth 3g modem missing, but supposedly this is on its way.<\/p>\n

Next step is to re-install my main desktop and see how it handles the triple monitor! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a new laptop about a year ago directly from Dell<\/a>. I did this for two reasons, they had a good deal, and I wanted to support a company that supported Linux! So far I’ve been very impressed, it worked right out of the box and about the only thing that I did to it in the first few months was upgrade the OS to 7.10 (Gutsy).<\/p>\n

Of course, that didn’t last long. I soon started messing around with beta versions of Ubuntu<\/a>, doing some messy upgrades and installing patches in a fairly piecemeal fashion. After about 9 months of this and breaking various things, 8.10 (Intrepid) came out and I decided a fresh install was called for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[62,79,106,107,166],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-8-10","tag-dell","tag-inspiron","tag-install","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}