Installing Ubuntu on a Gateway LT3103u

July 8, 2009

The next OS (and last) that I care about getting working on the Gateway LT3103u is Ubuntu. This is the OS that I use day to day, and so the most interesting to me.
Unfortunately, the current release of Ubuntu, 9.04, is currently using kernel 2.6.28, which isn’t new enough to have working wireless drivers for [...]

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Numeric keypad madness in GNOME

February 17, 2009
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I’m not sure if it is a GNOME default or an Ubuntu default, but in the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha, my numeric keypad was not working. Further examination showed that it was working perfectly, as an alternate mouse movement device. That’s not nearly as useful to me. Thankfully, reading a little bit led me to [...]

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Change is hard

February 16, 2009

After mucking around all morning with Fedora 11, I ended up putting Ubuntu 9.04 onto a disk so that I’d have something to work with tomorrow.
It’s not that Fedora 11 is bad, but it’s different. Different in that way where you switch which cabinets have the cups and plates, and you’re just annoyed that you [...]

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