Free OS CDs/DVDs

7.04 cd package arrived yesterday.

to anyone reading, go to the ubuntu web site, fill out the form and wait a few weeks... then you'll have your media for free!

also get a few ubuntu stickers to paste all over things...
so now I have "official" media CD/DVDs for $0:
Ubuntu: 5 6 7
OpenSolaris
Sun Solaris 10

PPC Ubuntu 6.06 annoyances

recently my iMac DV has not been booting successfully, all the time.

have not yet diagnosed the problem; usually just rebooting works...

need to sit down and review logs...

started ~1 month or so ago, unfortunately more than one update ago (current system only keeps one "old" kernel)

Google stuff

Google!

I'm finding I have many many of google's tools, including this one...

one recent annoyance, is the flash requirement for google talk;

Flash is not currently easily available on my iMac PPC ubuntu box.

What do I use regularly? (in addition to search)

1. gmail
2. news
   
3. maps
4. alerts
   
5. blogger
6. picasa
7. picasaweb
8. iGoogle
9. reader
10. notebook
11. finance
12. patents
13. talk
14. calendar
15. youtube
16. translate
17. calculator
18. suggest
    

I have tried others, but don't currently use them regularly;
Docs and Spreadsheets, base may be useful
google earth is fun, but don't use it; same with sketchup
desktop search was too heavy,
toolbar similarly too much
web accelerator didn't seem to like sympatico

is that too much google?

Linux Live CD: Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

one note, forgot to mention:

Linux Live CD: Ubuntu Feisty/Edgy

these are two disks I've been using for quite a while now.

they both support my slightly odd wireless card, AND the office VPN...

very cool.

These need the newest system NOT the ones mentioned previously, but the laptop that replaced them...

Pentium133 and DSL Linux

Got this running at the Grandparents this weekend;

google for: "dsl loadlin how to" and you get a link to the dsl wiki.

Only one annoyance: windows 98 (surprise).
it didn't close/restart properly, and the install on that machine didn't have a menu on startup;

so when I ran loadlin.exe @options.txt, that worked ok, but then trying to go back didn't work...

it seemed permanently stuck in DSL;
to get back, I had to
1) put the CD in the cd drive
2) restart DSL, from the CD, not HD
3) mount the hard disk (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -o rw)
4) move the isolinux dir (mv isolinux isolinux.mv)
5) reboot.

other notes:
no flash plugin on that install;
a pentium 133 is almost usable... was very slow...