Comments on: Linux, take 14 (Ubuntu 7.10 Review)

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By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:30:15 +0000

Another update on the wireless – I booted into Ubuntu just the other day to do a ‘dd’ hard disk copy (laptop drive failed on me) and gave WPA2 another shot, and even with my weird wireless adapter, it magically just started working.

I was in the middle of telling my roommate “yeah, it really sucks that WPA doesn’t work with this USB wifi adapter, but I might as well—oh—it does work. Go figure.”

+1 for Ubuntu. I’m sure 8.04 will be even better, I’ll be updating soon.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:56:11 +0000

Steve, you can totally play Starcraft in Wine! I remember doing that back in 1999, hehe. You’re right though, still can’t play the latest games and stuff. Cedega works well for that though if you want it.

John – remember I’m a long-time Windows user (the kind who keeps their XP clean so it runs stable – since October 26th 2001 without a reinstall to be exact) and have a well-established existing installation. I don’t think I can take that and boot it into VirtualBox, but if I can please tell me!

Also, an update on Wireless—we just got an Apple AirPort Extreme WAP (so my roommate can use remote Time Machine backups via NAS) and switched to WPA/WPA2 encryption, which is awesome, except the drivers for Linux aren’t liking it.

Guess I spoke too soon about the Wireless issues being fixed. I think I’ll upgrade to the Hardy 8.4 alpha 6 release (or the beta that comes out on March 20th) and see if it’s any better, but I have a feeling I’ll have to use the now-shunned ndiswrapper to get it really working.

By: John X Public

John X Public — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:23:05 +0000

Why dual boot? use VirtualBox !

apt-get install virtualbox

By: steve

steve — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:54:27 +0000

yep, linux distros have come a LONG way – it’s very impressive. there’s still a lot of work to be done tho. when i installed ubuntu breezy badger on my laptop, it took me (a pretty tech-savvy guy) a few days to get wireless working. and once i got it working, it still involved editing the config files manually to change SSIDs and stuff..hehe. perhaps they’ve fixed this in the latest release?

anyway, i eventually reverted back to windows so i could play Starcraft again i do regret it a bit, cuz windows just isn’t as smooth as linux.

By: nadavkav

nadavkav — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:22:58 +0000

you are so true ! that is my experience too
that is way we have distributions for… to integrate a useful solution.