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Ubuntu ham radio social group


For those of us that are both Ubuntu’ers and ham radio fans there is a social group up and running on the Ubuntu forums
Feel free to join in a contribute to the discussions

Ubuntu 7.10


A while ago I switched our main PC over to Linux. After a number of attempts with Mandrake, Xandros and a few other flavours I found that although I’m not someone who doesn’t spend hours having a go at Microsoft and I definately don’t hate windows (I do however find Apple a little rotten) I [...]

Computerland - Ubuntu update


I’ve been using it for a while now and am getting quite used to it……but…..there’s always a but. Setting up third party software is still more onerous than it was with Windows, but I’m still going for it.
Story so far.
Installed AMD64 version
Fiddled about and found that loads of the applications don’t seem to work. Got [...]

Computerland - Ubuntu install easier and quicker than Windows


Were you surprised?
There are so many different reports on how to install this distro so I won’t go through the details but suffice to say they are all true. It’s a piece of cake, even for a new user.
So the install is done and everything is updated and the offie based stuff is in and [...]

Computerland - Going to the geekside - Ubuntu installation


Having piddled about for a number of weeks with the 64 bit edition of Ubuntu I think I’m going to take the plug and install the 32 bit version on the main computer at home on the internal disk. I am always full of hope that this will be the distribution that suits me but [...]