GrassField

This is really a pathetic story

I installed ubuntu 9.1 AMD 64 today in my vostro 1000 (said bye to one more windows!!!). The installer is faster than 386 installation in my office laptop.

I have Reliance Broadband with USB Huawei EC1260 modem, which was cleanly identified by Network Manager and I was able to configure the connection. But it is not getting connected. (It was working perfectly in Sabayon5). After googling I came to know that the device is identified as USB mass storage, rather than a modem. The tricks given by sites are not helpful, atleast for me.

Sad, Ubuntu dont come with gnome-ppp by default. I need to download it along with its dependencies to make the device work.

I found Copy Paste is not working between my local Ubuntu 9.1 and remote Windows Server 2003. Ubuntu Forum is telling that Copy Paste wont work with RDP, we need to choose RDPv5 as communication protocol! Is it working now? Ya, perfectly!

This is an interesting success story. I have been given a vaio with 2GB ram/Core2Duo 2.1GHz with Vista Business. After the installations of basic dev&doc tools like eclipse, tomcat, mysql, openoffice, box became very slower. Build and deployment are done in snail’s pace

Very bad, I just tried Ubuntu 9.1 Live CD couple of days ago. Basically I love Mandrake because of their superb control panel, user friendly installation. Once I tried Debian surge, came back to Mandrake again because I am not successful with the configuration of all devices. But this time it is a huge success.

Installation : Very quick (obviously, it is a live CD)

Partitioning : It is good, But I still love Mandriva in this

The system was up and running in just 20 to 25 minutes!! woww!

Display & UI : Good, I like minimal transition effects – they are fast and professional! (wipe in/out , zoom in)

Package management : Synaptic. Good. But I still love Mandriva

Devices :
I dont have much. Finger pad is working like a feather. Tried to install BSNL EVDO (ZTE), Tata Indicom Photon Plus (Huawei). Ubuntu has device drivers and finds it quickly. (Beware!!! I read in forums, Tata distribute two kind of USB modems one of them dont support Linux)

Network :

Tested Wired LAN,  Wireless LAN and mobile broadband – Good. Tested Remote desktop to connect to remote Windows box – Good. Skype Audio Chat – Good.

Dev tools:

Eclipse, Mysql, Tomcat, Openoffice, firefox all are running without any freezing moment. (not at all possible with my previous Win installation)

So, The journey starts!

Use the following commands to install JDK in Debian based distros. Too basic?? sorry I am too absent-minded

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk – For the JDK (Developer)
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre – For the JRE (User)