Today I gave Ubuntu-Linux a spin on my spare-partition. I have to say: it really rocks. I have automagically a desktop to use with great overall functionality within half an hour. Just great. I backed up my data yesterday so today I can reformat my hard-disk and get Ubunto on my main drive.

Edit: Ubuntu is up and running,… but the ACPI-Problem remains. Got to rebuild a kernel tonight.

Edit2: ACPI-Problem is done. First I tried to go without rebuilding the kernel, since Ubuntu supports the inclusion of a new dsdt over the initrd-image, but this failed. Now the third kernel is in the oven to fix the last issues with the fglrx-module for my ati-card.
Next step will be the reconfiguration of xorg to use the fglrx driver. If this is done, I’m through and everything else is just cleanup.

Turing-Train-Terminal is a Model-Railroad functioning like a Finite-State-Machine.

This might be a good provider to get a staic ip for Hubert in the future.

Today I just gave the current beta-Live-CD of Ubuntu a short spin on my notebook. Runs quite impressive. I think I’m going to scoop around to get some more info on the overall distro-arch but since it is a debian derivate everything should be fine.
Maybe I’m going to swicht my Linux distro on my Laptop by May. Since then I’ve way too much to learn and backing up all that data from my laptop is quite difficult. Maybe I test-drive Hoary again on my notebooks 10Gig spare partition.
The stable warthy failed the installation due to a faulty sata-driver. Maybe the ubuntu-guys got it fixed in hoary.
Well,… we will see.

During the Weekend I was able to test out the net-code inside OpenTTD. The multiplayer is really neat. You can play versus, cooperative and in teams. Initially we played with each player owning a company, then moved over to team-mode with 3 players in a company. I’m curious about playing 2vs2 or 3vs3 or something like that.