Cruisin' along with Ubuntu

The transition to all-linux-all-the-time has been going smooth!

OpenVPN works as expected with work's network once keys were added.

Found a most excellent theme at gnome-look.org.

• Untar download
• Open System->Preferences->Appearance
• Drag folder into Theme tab
• Add... background from dir to Background tab

Truecrypt, keePassX, etc working great!

Laptop comes out of hibernation every time so far! Even though it looks like it's booting from Power Off, it'll just prompt for a password and open the session just as I left it.

Ubuntu 9.04 on my work laptop

I am officially NOT a MAC guy! It broke so many times, work took it back, thankfully! I will say I miss one thing, the touchpad was incredible, but that's about all I liked about it...

I was given a Dell Latitude E6500 to work on and the hardware was totally linux compatible. Local linux guru partitioned 10GB out for linux for me to play with after he loaded the Windows image. :>

I installed the new Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. There were no issues with the install and the boot manager, I assume GRUB(?), works just fine letting me boot into Windows for work and Ubuntu for play. And you have NO idea how nice it is to have wifi finally work out-of-the-box with linux! This is the first non-Broadcom chip laptop I've had and I will never get another product with Broadcom in it...ever!

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Can't remember if I installed from browser or downloaded install, but I got FLASH plugin for Firefox installed and am keeping up with my subscriptions on youtube.com again. Had to do the backspace trick for Firefox I wrote about here.

Open Office (www.openoffice.org) came pre-installed and opens files off my thumbdrive with no problem.

Truecrypt now has a GUI for linux! The install was a little weird since it was a run file instead of a dpkg install... Download tarball from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads. I had to gunzip, then tar xvf which leaves a script file. Run this file with "sudo ./truecrypt-6.2-ubuntu-x86" and it will open a GUI install, sweet! Followed the prompts and Trucrypt was install and available in Applications -> Other menu.

KeePassX on linux. This one was a little more complicated. Download .deb file from a mirror then go to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357601 for dependencies fix.

1. cd to downloaded keepassx_0.3.4-1_i386.deb
2. Install dependencies: "sudo aptitude install libc6 libgcc1 libqt4-core libqt4-gui libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxtst6"
3. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/keepassx_0.3.4-1_i386.deb
   

I was able to open the .kdb from thumbdrive I've been using on Windows without any problems.

That's it for now. Next I'm going to lookup how to move programs around in the Applications menu.