http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/tag/ubuntu en-us 40 <p>I'm impressed. I reported the problem with my laptop (purchased in the US) to Dell Germany yesterday morning at about 10AM. Today (Tuesday), a technician with a new drive stopped by my house at about noon. Now I'm busy restoring from backups, after installing Ubuntu Gutsy.</p> <p>While it's certainly been a big disruption, I'm impressed with Dell's customer service.</p> Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:05:00 -0800 urn:uuid:3f31b481-7c06-4ac6-abd9-d43314f80422 David N. Welton http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/11/20/and-were-back-in-action ubuntu dell http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/trackback/1825 <p>I have a computer with a RaLink RT2561/RT61 wireless card that never worked very well under Feisty, so I decided to try out Gutsy, on a whim. </p> <p><strong>The good</strong>:</p> <p>The card now works! So that's good news. Other than that, none of the features listed <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/RC">here</a> is a big deal for me, but it's nice to get a lot of programs updated to newer versions.</p> <p><strong>The bad</strong>:</p> <p>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/115616</p> <p>Luckily it's easy to fix.</p> <p><strong>The ugly</strong>:</p> <p>Upgrading emacs was a pain, as a lot of packages seem to cause breakage with emacs22. That's not really the fault of the Ubuntu guys, but it would be wonderful if they'd fix it prior to release.</p> <p>I haven't used the computer much yet, but consider the release isn't official yet, it's not bad, but I think it still needs a little bit of work. Anyway, I'm happy that my card works, I'm happy.</p> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:03:00 -0700 urn:uuid:1dec4c17-dcb2-4777-8e1f-942c87aefe86 David N. Welton http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/10/14/feisty-to-gutsy-upgrade ubuntu http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/trackback/1814