I mentioned earlier that after doing the auto-update, there were 4 total Ubuntu OS options when booting up the machine. I was poking through the menus when I came across a utility. It was under System/Administration/Computer Janitor. The mouseover tooltip stated that it was used to “Clean up a system so it’s more like a freshly installed one”

Starting it up, it found two things under the “Unused” column, and had them checked off:

linux-headers-2.6.31-14
linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic

Clicking “Do selected tasks” gave me a warning to be sure I was doing something I wanted to do. Clicking ok, the items were removed from the “Unused” column, and it gave me a prompt to leave the program.

After rebooting, I had the same menu options, there is still something I am missing.

Also, my mouse cursor disappeared when booting the system back up. It still functioned, but nothing was visible and I had to “feel” around to use any menus or open programs. A reboot seemed to have fixed the issue.

One thing I noticed I was missing  is sound. I heard my speakers giving off a very brief hissing noise when logging in, but nothing else has come out of them. I’m somewhat wary of dealing with sound, as my main sound card is a Creative x-fi card, and the windows drivers were absolutely horrible until just recently. I can’t imagine the Linux drivers being any better, if they are even there.

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Ok, so this wasn’t the next day but I did download Ubuntu 9.10 (the 64 bit version.)

The system used is an Intel C2D E8400, with 4 gigs of memory and an ATI 4850 videocard. I was keeping notes while installing, so here is what happened:

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When you’re unemployed, and dealing with a horribly screwed up sleep schedule, odd thoughts frequently enter your head.

One of those hit me the other day when I saw an Ubuntu logo, and was curious exactly how far this particular Linux distribution had advanced. I’ve seen Ubuntu in the news, and how Dell offers it on their machines. I’ve actually used a live CD before a couple of years ago to get on the internet to download a driver. That was about a 5 minute adventure though, and consisted of me finding the Firefox icon, so it hardly qualifies as “using” the operating system.

Since I primarily use my PC for gaming, trying out a Linux distribution isn’t a very frequent thought. Still, the idea was there so I figured it would be worth a try. I’ll download the latest version tonight and mess with it tomorrow.

I’ll put some interesting stuff here one day.