The version 10.04 Situation

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Sep 7 13:43:13 UTC 2010


Karl Larsen wrote:
>      I started with 10.04Alfa and saw how it grew into the system it is 
> today at 10.04.1. This has to be the finest Desktop operating system in 
> the world! It seems to load onto almost any computer that has at least 
> 560KB of RAM and a partition of at least 10 GB.

???


> 
>      Today computer experts are putting 10.04 on tiny "netbooks" which 
> have solid state RAM and Hard Drive. I am amazed it runs! But it does.
> 
>      If you have a full size laptop 10.04 loads easier than windows. You 
> might have a problem getting the WiFi to work. I found wicd sometimes helps.
> 
>      So with the usual computer you can get the Desktop version of 10.04 
> from the web page and when you get the software onto a cd-rom or memory 
> stick you load it and 99 out of 100 times it comes up running like you 
> want it.
> 
>      Today this is the finest software Ubuntu has ever produced.

What are you talking about? Ubuntu DOS? I know for sure DOS is far 
easier to load than Windows. Where can I get this wicd TSR program you 
are talking about? Anything to get WIFI and still have 560KB of RAM left 
to run stuff!




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