Hello everyone.
been a long time. After several serious problems in my personal life, I feel better and able to post here.
A lot has happened in the political, legal, global, and so on. You may touch the issues as time passes. But today I speak of software, a topic not long ago played.
You all know that when I happened to get me to the world of Linux and the penguin, I did starting with Ubuntu. The 4.10, which lasted 3 days on my PC until I had the 6.06, I installed and then to use has been said. What times.
Guided by the need to update to have a bit of eye candy, and not have to reinstall the multimedia tooodo re-Ubuntu does not bring about any media out-of-the-box, all you have to install it by hand) - di Ultimate Ubuntu, a distro which actually is a 9001 Ubuntu plugins.
However, Ubuntu fell into a serious hole: A Linux system in theory is faster and more efficient than Windows, and that what I had said, walking into any PC, it was getting slow and overburdened. I'm talking about 512 MB of RAM with the liveCD delayed enough to open (in fact time was close to Ubuntu Ultimate 1.2 .... which is not very good). In the midst of my search for something better and more complete, I found Linux Mint, a system that actually commented here in a previous .
received this laptop, as everyone knows, is very low in RAM (with only 191 MB). That aside, I have the drama that is S3/Via Unichrome graphics chipset, and the hard drive is only 40 GB. However, I decided to try Linux. I've said and I admit it: I gnomero. I do not like much
the end, after several tests and trials (where I had to reformat about 5 times) I managed to keep one: Edubuntu (7.10). I had many dramas with the graphics card at first, but I got it installed. Yeah. I used it for almost two months (until I installed VirtualBox, believe it or not), but had the need to use Windows software, and an update of wine, I killed the system: Every time I opened anything, I blocked the entire system ( the absence of 3D on this card).
the end formatting. I installed Windows 2000 to have something light and that worked well. I tried OpenSUSE too. In Gnome and XFCE version. I did not like, I found the RPM and Yum impractical failed on many occasions. Moreover, if the update was in the middle and fell yum, I had many problems opening yum again, something that never occurred to me with Synaptic.
After that, I used Windows and I was away from Linux. I wanted to try Ubuntu 8.04 but I changed my mind after 10 minutes of it installed: Your insane consumption of RAM without having installed any additional software did go SLOW. I lowered my codecs audio / video and opened something. It was a nightmare. Ubuntu 8 lasted no more than 2 days on my laptop, it was. I deleted it. Pum. Goodbye. In one of those on a PC I used RedHat from the university, and had the same problem: You do not like RPM. Bah. Just me. Use the bug of Linux was, but I stopped the need for Windows software, plus the low RAM that I have added to my disdain for desktop light. On the other hand, it still relied on my knowledge to install any distro that required advanced commands, because although I do not fear the console, I'm no expert on it.
However, I decided. I wanted to try the new. The latest version, the father of many distros today: Debian . I decided to
Debian arm the system as I wanted to build it, install it my way, with only the software and services that I would use and nothing else would have my gnome and light. Ownearía who is fun of me because my PC goes slow.
I thought of something practical. A net install for me it was not, because that would mean that if something would be forced to have internet. Then with a classmate we agreed, and said lower DVDs.
On Saturday I went to his house, and once backed up my 19 GB of information in the PC of my friend (because I have no DVD recorder, is DVD / CD recorder) to reformat and install Debian.
It would be a great start.
Installation.
By the way, before anything else, so you know, my laptop is a Packard Bell EasyNote E6305 , with 192 MB of RAM and 40 GB hard drive, graphics chipset Via K8M800 S3/Unichrome. In fact they are 256 MB of RAM, but 64 is going to video, and no hardware or BIOS nor any option to change.
Once inserted the DVD 1 (which is not Live, ACIS), showed the typical menu asking what you want to do. You can start a normal installation, an expert mode (both with a choice of "graphical install"). Furthermore, in the advanced options you can choose which desktop system you want (Gnome, KDE, XFCE or LXDE). By default, choose gnome. My installation was in standard mode, and was not different to any other facility: The questions were the same as I did the Ubuntu installer (plus some of opensuse). After answering the questions, the system was delayed half an hour to install. Finally finished, I got the DVD, rebooted, y. ..
problems began.
First, the screen was set to 1600x1200 being the maximum that I hold this laptop is 1024x768. That means I lost everything below. When I went to the menu to change the screen resolution, I was wrong: Not listed resolutions of any kind.
I looked at the xorg.conf and it was a simple, not knowing what to do. Import a xorg.conf from Ubuntu 6.06 was not the best because that would mean he would lose the VGA and TV output of my video card. What could I do? Apart
could not navigate. Using a wireless adapter TWL541U Tenda, could not, Debian did not know the device. To make matters worse, it was late (was in the house of my friend) and I could not stay. So I turned off the PC, I got the DVD and decided to dedicate it easy to install at home.
Step one: reformat and installed MicroXP . I decided that the Windows partition would be for the exclusive soft or complex games that Debian was not able to run with my PC small (AKA Grand Theft Auto). The formatted as NTFS and I installed the wireless driver, more K-Meleon. I looked for solutions to my problem graph. Annotations, and this time I walk the Debian installer in expert mode.
The questions were not so complicated that I expected. In fact, the installation was easier than I expected. The only answers "strange" were he did not want a root account (I like sudo and Ubuntu), not wanting to use the innovative new version of Grub, and desktop environment LXDE would use it to test what this was.
Once installed the solution did not work I got on my graphics card. In addition, I urged the wireless (why I opened the laptop to get the integrated is a long story.) How rich is that being around in the DVD did not have to lose Internet, put in the console sudo apt-get install something and I installed in under 20 seconds. I solved the drama
chart, eventually modifying / etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand, which not recommend to any novice or newbie in Linux .
was to install ndiswrapper then, bring me wireless driver from the CD that brought the device and install to boot. Voilà, I could access the wireless network from Debian.
already had the basics working and working well. Take to say that during all this mess for the repair, the only times when I restarted the system was to review documents online (getting the same MicroXP). In the other, no. Ndiswrapper was running away, and once I checked xorg.conf fixed the immediate results when pressing CTRL + ALT + Backspace, y. .. that.
Debian system was finally walking, running well, and LXDE. I wanted to change the wallpaper and I found the option anywhere in the control panel. Now, do I have to edit a text file to change my wallpaper? No, thanks. I'm too comfortable to do that.
sudo apt-get install gnome
Once installed, log off, started as a Gnome .... and now I can say that I started to enjoy (seriously) to one of the most stable operating systems in the world. Of course, with relatively old versions of software, but very stable. My findings in the next chapter.
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