Moved to Ubuntu 10.04

I tried using Puppy Linux for quite some time. I was pretty much impressed by it. It enabled me to work with Linux without the need to install. I need Windows XP to test a lot of software and also to duplicate and troubleshoot client problems.

Puppy Linux is a very thin software and it was fun to use it from USB stick. I used the 4GB HP drive for the purpose. However the version of puppy linux that I was using had some serious bugs. I was using puppy linux 5.2. It recognized my laptop's wlan card but the drive was not good. With WPA connection type I faced frequent disconnections. My laptop has Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN card. Connecting to wi-fi during meetings and all was becoming very difficult and hence I had two choices.
1. Moving to WIndows XP.
2. Moving to a stabler version of Linux.
I decided to go with the later. As Ubuntu is my favorite Linux distro and I have been using Ubuntu from 2008 on my home PC I decided to go with it. I had a Ubuntu 10.10 CD but I needed a USB stick for my laptop, it doesn't have a CDROM available. So I logged into my Windows machine and downloaded the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My past experience with Ubuntu has taught me to stick with the LTS versions. I then burned the iso file onto a USB stick as described on the ubuntu website and I had a working usb key with Ubuntu 10.04 ready.

I installed with along side Windows XP on my laptop and everything went on well. The installation was successful and I am now using Ubuntu 10.04.

Note: I had some problems with the wlan card and eventually configured it. I will be writing about it in the next post.

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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