Posts under ‘Ubuntu’

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, my trusty ThinkPad hangs on shutdown about 75% of the time. I see on the forums this is a known issue.
Lucid Lynx will gracefully power off when the shutdown background is blue; otherwise, it’ll just sit there. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting…

There are problems with the logo, too. It looks [...]

It’s probably not a good sign to see this since upgrading to Karmic Koala:

Running pdflatex under Ubuntu 9.04 yet was producing the following error:
! LaTeX Error: File ‘kvoptions.sty’ not found.
The fix was easy enough, simply install texlive-latex-recommended and the error will disappear.

The ThinkPad received an OS upgrade this weekend. Not to Windows Vista, but to a brand new installation of Ubuntu instead. XP, while quite nice and serviceable, was simply running too slow, even after a fresh install back in October, and I really didn’t feel like re-installing again or worse, upgrading to Vista.
It was a [...]