A friend of mine just asked me for help with his new laptop. He wanted to try out Jaunty, but got stuck with a couple of show stoppers: no WIFI and no sound. The hardware is already supported in newer releases of ALSA and the Linux kernel, so 9.10 “Karmic” will probably run flawlessly with [...]

Lately I’ve been wanting to buy a netbook. I’m not an impulsive guy when it comes to buying new gadgets, so I have been postponing the moment. But having an unexpensive, semi-disposable system laying around can come in quite handy. I mention this because the time to buy is getting closer and closer, and yet [...]

Couldn’t let the day pass by without mentioning that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) has finally been released today. You’ll have lots of information elsewhere, so I won’t lose our times telling you about it. It has been working flawlessly with my new Thinkpad since February, so I’m pretty sure it is a polished product [...]