I just want to say.... I upgraded! I am running Kubuntu on a Toshiba satellite 5205-S204 I have had since January 2003 (P4-M 2.0ghz, geforce460m and 1gb ram).
I took the Linux plunge with Jaunty last December (if you don't count my baby eee running its flavor of xandros) and did a clean install of Karmic in January. Today I did the upgrade. Started at 2:03 pm and was rebooted and on line at 4:09 pm. So, no messing with wireless settings or losing files, etc.
A couple things:
--even from jaunty I have not been fully happy with screen resolution and appearance. Default resolution under windows in 1024x768 and that is just easier to see for what I am doing. There is a "muddy" look to everything and things just don't seem to like to behave at my preferred resolution.
(I think I have found all the settings I can change to improve this but maybe I need to keep looking ...)
--after messing with resolution and restarting I got all kinds of lovely vertical lines and nonsense. I have read others having this too
--I had to leave for a few minutes and when I came back the computer was in some mode and I couldn't "wake" it with moving the mouse or pounding random keys
--I think the 32-21 kernel is going to work better for me, its default resolution is 1280x1024 unlike 32-22 which is giving me 1400x1050.
Mostly I am really pleased that I didn't have to redo all my settings and that things are pretty much working OOTB. It looks like there are a number of new features that are going to take some getting used to in terms of how windows behave and so forth.
For now I am happy! I have been using this old machine primarily to run citrix sessions in order to work from home but also to poke around with a non-windows OS and applications.
cheers,
ransom
I took the Linux plunge with Jaunty last December (if you don't count my baby eee running its flavor of xandros) and did a clean install of Karmic in January. Today I did the upgrade. Started at 2:03 pm and was rebooted and on line at 4:09 pm. So, no messing with wireless settings or losing files, etc.
A couple things:
--even from jaunty I have not been fully happy with screen resolution and appearance. Default resolution under windows in 1024x768 and that is just easier to see for what I am doing. There is a "muddy" look to everything and things just don't seem to like to behave at my preferred resolution.
(I think I have found all the settings I can change to improve this but maybe I need to keep looking ...)
--after messing with resolution and restarting I got all kinds of lovely vertical lines and nonsense. I have read others having this too
--I had to leave for a few minutes and when I came back the computer was in some mode and I couldn't "wake" it with moving the mouse or pounding random keys
--I think the 32-21 kernel is going to work better for me, its default resolution is 1280x1024 unlike 32-22 which is giving me 1400x1050.
Mostly I am really pleased that I didn't have to redo all my settings and that things are pretty much working OOTB. It looks like there are a number of new features that are going to take some getting used to in terms of how windows behave and so forth.
For now I am happy! I have been using this old machine primarily to run citrix sessions in order to work from home but also to poke around with a non-windows OS and applications.
cheers,
ransom
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