Posts Tagged ‘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 upgrade to Genesys 7.6 in December went off pretty much without a hitch, and with the upgrade came changes to T-Server and URS logs so I’ve been spending some time during the last quarter updating Genalyze. I’ve also found some spare time to continue with Leafpile development, both Java and Objective-C implementations.
Needless to say, [...]

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 [...]