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i bought a netbook
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Author:  Nikku [ December 17, 2008 ]
Post subject:  i bought a netbook
a dell with ubuntu on it. sold my toshiba. yay me.
Author:  .saint [ December 17, 2008 ]
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ubuntu is dope.
Author:  Nikku [ December 17, 2008 ]
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yeah, i had it running as a dual boot on my toshiba laptop but i could never get the sound working. fucking intel drivers are a PITA. i sold that laptop and used the funds to buy a netbook. that toshiba used to be my primary computer when i first came to japan but i have a desktop now so a netbook will work just right. if only japan had free wifi. there is NONE.
Author:  jdm delivery [ December 18, 2008 ]
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lucky. i want to run ubuntu so bad but vista has issues
Author:  Nikku [ December 18, 2008 ]
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jdm delivery wrote:lucky. i want to run ubuntu so bad but vista has issues
what issues did you come across?
Author:  jdm delivery [ December 19, 2008 ]
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the resolution was super huge and i couldnt change it. i'm not sure if thats because i was just running it from the disc and i didnt install it and i think there might have been something weird with the sound and i couldnt change anything
Author:  Nikku [ December 20, 2008 ]
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that could have been because you ran it from the disc. you could always setup a partition and delete it later if you dont like it.
Author:  Nikku [ December 21, 2008 ]
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but i will tell you that i did have sound problems on my toshiba. i could never get it working. intel sound drivers are a bitch. i tried almost everything i could find that was related to getting it fixed. the problem is that its not a uniform fix that works on everyones system. some people do this and it works, some people do that and it works. that kinda shit annoys me haha. anyways, i think that a possible solution (while it does cost money) is to go with a sound card (not on board sound). you can find one that is supported and has drivers, buy that shit, install it and the sound should work. the resolution thing is....odd. its not because of vista. my guess is because it was running from the disc. you could also try something like pendrivelinux with ubuntu. that way you would have the full distro on a USB jump drive and you could see if everything worked that way.

my netbook is in transit from dell. yay! says it should be delivered on chirstmas now. that date has been changing left and right. first it was the 27th, then the 30th, now the 25th. lets hope the sooner the better.
Author:  tomoyasu [ December 28, 2008 ]
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i like ubuntu a lot. good choice!!!
Author:  Nikku [ January 29, 2009 ]
Post subject:  Re: i bought a netbook
hehe, well i installed XP on it :P. the dell kernel was pissing me off. they created a special kernel for the atom processor (LPIA kernel) and installing most common programs that are not in installer or synaptic required me to modify install files everytime. that was annoying me. also, they had initially set a memory limit of 883mb (no matter how much you installed), which i hear has now been removed once you update but still that annoyed me too. There was an ubuntu bug that wouldnt get resolved unless i upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10. that was the touchpad clicking things even if you didnt touch it bug. once 9.04 drops i will probably install that. maybe not, i dunno. i installed xp took a backup image of it, installed vista and took a backup image of that too so i can install either on the fly. i want to do it for 8.10 as well.
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