Maybe in another life, Ubuntu will have webcam support, I'm not sure I'll be waiting around much longer...my spark is fading!
Ubuntu or just Linux in all, is becoming a tight suit, and not as flexible as I'd hoped for.
This time it's a Creative webcam that works perfectly well with XP, but refuses to even be recognized by my Ubuntu Edgy installed PC.
Lack of drivers from the manufacturer, is the key issue here. The big problem that all users of Linux encounters, a manufacturer is willing to support most O/S' but Linux, apparently, or is it just me?
Friday, December 29, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Is it there yet?
The past year, I've been more than happy to tell friends about the great things about Ubuntu, and how wonderfully easy it is to install, and just how stable a "Linux box" is.
But a few days ago I experienced the unspeakabel; My "Linux box" froze, nothing I did could wake it up. It was completely unresponsive... I froze with it for a second... noo! I was thinking: "this is not what it seems, there must be some explanation... I can just hit the "B.Gates keys"... but alas.. I had to pull the plug..
I was astonished, in the wild, why would this happen? Yes, I've been installing ontop of a "Breezy" installation, and through a "Dapper", and ended up with this "Edgy", it might just be some forgotten file somewhere.. I'll never know!
Because I'm just a newbie still.
Maybe I'll be better off with a complete reinstall, and switch back to W......Ouch!
But a few days ago I experienced the unspeakabel; My "Linux box" froze, nothing I did could wake it up. It was completely unresponsive... I froze with it for a second... noo! I was thinking: "this is not what it seems, there must be some explanation... I can just hit the "B.Gates keys"... but alas.. I had to pull the plug..
I was astonished, in the wild, why would this happen? Yes, I've been installing ontop of a "Breezy" installation, and through a "Dapper", and ended up with this "Edgy", it might just be some forgotten file somewhere.. I'll never know!
Because I'm just a newbie still.
Maybe I'll be better off with a complete reinstall, and switch back to W......Ouch!
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
On the edge..
The "Ubuntu 6.10 - the Edgy Eft" released in October 2006.
It was, once again, a breeze to move.
A hassless operation that took about 2 hours..
That's what it took to download a couple of hundred MB of data and to remove the old stuff and replace it with the new..
I'm glad i did! ...Not that I could see any difference right away, but small details are starting to appear.. like a new version of the popular Firefox browser, and the "Disk usage analyzer", that's a fantastic "need to have" tool.
And now I've finally got my onboard video card to work, nice and fast, with the great Open-Source drivers look at the wiki pages
Later...
It was, once again, a breeze to move.
A hassless operation that took about 2 hours..
That's what it took to download a couple of hundred MB of data and to remove the old stuff and replace it with the new..
I'm glad i did! ...Not that I could see any difference right away, but small details are starting to appear.. like a new version of the popular Firefox browser, and the "Disk usage analyzer", that's a fantastic "need to have" tool.
And now I've finally got my onboard video card to work, nice and fast, with the great Open-Source drivers look at the wiki pages
Later...
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