The latest issue of Scot’s newsletter has a nice collection of information to help answer the question “Will my hardware work under Linux?” It’s got links to getting Live CD distros, hardware compatibility databases, and more.
It’s all part of the Linux Clues addition to the newsletter, both the newsletter and various forums and websites associated with Scot’s are worth checking in to!
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The laptop hard drive, which was ordered after 3 PM yesterday, and which I was told by the Compaq help desk person to not expect until Monday, maybe even Tuesday, arrived before 9 o’clock this morning. I probably won’t even attempt to work on that until Monday anyway though, as I’m leaving at noon today…
See Phil’s post here. If you use comments in Blogger that incorporate javascript, you might want to be aware of this little change that needs to be made to your commenting system when your blog gets switched over to the new version of blogger. I did it with my copy of aspcomments on this blog…
Regarding my previous posts about installing Ubuntu, which I really do like, by the way, I just got a Twitter message from Bubbasan pointing me to the Linux Equivalent Project. This is a pretty cool idea, and there’s some things on there I really hadn’t though about at all, but will be taking a look…
I finally got to dig around in the wiring closet late this morning. Looks like those 4 ports are just dead, nothing to be done for them. There doesn’t seem to be any indication that the other 8 ports on that switch are having any problems, though their own failure may be coming right around…
I know, I haven’t posted anything today, and haven’t really been online much. I’m trying to get some database work done, but I’ve had too many interruptions between quick user questions and vendor phone calls. I think I’ve started over on this three times now, and it’s not necessarily anything difficult, it’s just hard to…