OpenZA

Ian Gilfillan wrote a new blog post: The Windows treadmill

I own a laptop that came bundled with Windows Vista. I installed Linux as fast as possible, but left Windows as a dual-boot option mainly to check that things behave nicely in Internet Explorer.
And a good thing too, because they usually don’t.
I also keep it because I own some junk hardware that also doesn’t play [...]

  5 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Ian Gilfillan wrote a new blog post: From Hardy to Helena

I’ve recently upgraded my Lenovo Y510 from Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy, which I’ve been running since around May 2008, to Linux Mint 8, Helena (which is based on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10). I used to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu every 6 months, but it got a bit tiring keeping up on the upgrade treadmill, running [...]

  6 months, 2 weeks ago · View