2007 September

This not really public yet, but for those of you savvy enough to subscribed to Linux Fanatics, this affects you. In the past, I have talked about finding a vendor that will support a specific RaLink chipset with consistent performance and full WPA out of the box. Today, this has happened. Finally, the poor wifi [...]

Visiting this link will provide you with this script
Follow the prompts and make sure to run the script in the terminal
Remember to make sure your browser is closed during the installation
Remember, just extract the folder by right clicking, double click on the script, choose run in terminal
It’s Ubuntu, 64 bit [...]

It’s easy to install and if need be, remove Ubuntu with Wubi
Provides a dual-boot without needing GRUB - uses Windows MBR
Remove it from within Windows itself - it’s just that easy

Do you have an Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Simply Mepis, Linspire/Freespire [...]

Boy, this sure looks nice, eh? Simple, GUI goodness that you might think will work just fine. And for most of you, it might, so long as you can meet these requirements.

synaptics driver version x.y.z (where x.y.z is above 0.14.4) and the
libsynaptics version X.Y.Z (where X.Y.Z is above or equals x.y.z) installed.

Oh, then you need [...]

Today, Don asks:
I am running Ubuntu 7.04 on my desktop.
I have a Belkin wireless N1 router and desktop card. No problem with router as I set it up from my windows notebook. I haven’t been able to install the N1 card software.
Can you advise me if appropriate Linux drivers, etc are available or suggest a [...]

Today, Bob asks:
Matt, Just read your answer to the question about which distribution of Linux to run, and your warning about dual booting. I agree with you 100%. But my question is, how come, with hard drive prices so low, and modern computers, now will boot from almost any drive, doesn’t anyone advocate just installing [...]