Introductions

29Sep07

I’ve been a Linux user since the good old days of Slackware 0.91. That’s a while ago now. Sadly, my day job pays me to use Microsoft products, so for a long time Linux has been something of an occasional escape. I’ve got a slight change of landscape coming up though, so it’s time to get re-acquainted with an old friend. I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 9400 last year so I can work on the road, and I’ve recently rejigged things a little so I’m running Linux on it. After much consideration and research I went for the Ubuntu distribution and was rewarded with a working 1920×1200 LCD and 3945 wifi connection.

It hasn’t been all plain sailing, however, so I’ve started this blog for two reasons. The first is to share my experience with others who are looking at running Ubuntu (and in some instances, any Linux installation) on a laptop. Because of my hardware this will be oriented toward my Inspiron 9400 experiences, but it might help others who are going through the same issues I am. The second reason is that I’ll have a handy google resource for searching through what I’ve done should I need to review later. I’m still running a large Windows partition, and at some time in the future I might consider blowing that away and running purely Linux on the laptop. We’ll see though. There’s some stuff that just doesn’t work at all, and I have to decide whether I need that on the road or not.

Anyway. That’s basically what this blog will be about.

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