[Hudlug] Hello guys! Remember me?
Tim Bray
tim at kooky.org
Thu May 3 10:51:04 BST 2007
Sarah Burgess wrote:
>
> Remember me?! I know it's been an awfully long time since I've been to the
> meetings (personal reasons that I won't discuss in such a public place).
> What's the attendance like nowadays? Is it still the same old crowd or do
> we have some fresh faces?
I haven't been for ages either.
> Secondly, I'm thinking of buying a new laptop and wanted some advice as I've
> no experience of installing linux on modern hardware. My existing machines
> are rather old! I'd want to dual-boot windows and debian (or a
> debian-derived distro). Anyone have experience of dual booting with Vista,
> or would XP be a better choice? I'm hopeless at making decisions when it
> requires parting with relatively large amounts of cash, so any pointers
> would really help ;-)
Ubuntu runs like a dream on my Sony Vaio laptop. It even detected that
the screen is widescreen without me having to do anything.
I've moved most of my desktop machines to ubuntu - just works like a dream.
Tim
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