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May 2nd, 2010, 11:17 PM
Yesterday my neighbor was having a garage sale and I went over and bought two old computers. One was a desktop Pentium 4 single core 1.8GHz with 244.5 MiB Ram and a 17.7 GB hard drive with a keyboard and mouse. The other was a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. The laptop did not have a power supply so I order one off ebay for 10 bucks. I bought both computers for 25 cents each. That's right 25 cents. The mouse was worth that much. Well I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on the desktop and that is what I am using right now. It runs a little slow, but it works great so far. I plan on installing 10.04 on the laptop when I get the power supply. I may boast the memory up on the desktop and give it to some needy person in my area.
One point I wanted to make on 10.4, I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 which I have 9.04 on. I had a hard time getting it to run because of video and wireless problems. I tried to run 10.4 on it, and it still has the same issues. Does not like my wireless card and my Hanns-G 22 inch monitor flicker and I can't fix it with the refresh rate. But when I used this monitor on the desktop it works just great, so I think it is a graphic card issue. I don't think the Dell Inspiron 1521 and Ubuntu like each other. I hope I can get Ubuntu installed on the Dell Inspiron 6000. I was just wondering if anyone has it installed on one, and if the install went well?
In closing I just want to say Ubuntu has come a long way, but it would be nice to see it run on my 1521 laptop with out so many issues. I wanted to update to 10.4, but I don't want to do it and find I have problems.
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One point I wanted to make on 10.4, I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 which I have 9.04 on. I had a hard time getting it to run because of video and wireless problems. I tried to run 10.4 on it, and it still has the same issues. Does not like my wireless card and my Hanns-G 22 inch monitor flicker and I can't fix it with the refresh rate. But when I used this monitor on the desktop it works just great, so I think it is a graphic card issue. I don't think the Dell Inspiron 1521 and Ubuntu like each other. I hope I can get Ubuntu installed on the Dell Inspiron 6000. I was just wondering if anyone has it installed on one, and if the install went well?
In closing I just want to say Ubuntu has come a long way, but it would be nice to see it run on my 1521 laptop with out so many issues. I wanted to update to 10.4, but I don't want to do it and find I have problems.
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