Moving to Ubuntu from Windows98 on my Laptop
I have an old laptop in my kitchen running windows98, it is being used by me and my wife. We use only a few apps on it; a web browser, picture browser, and access to mapped drives. So with all the security news about windows98 I decided to put linux on it instead. My experience was mostly with Redhat, but since my wife was going to use the machine and Ubuntu seemed to have a reputation of being really easy and being highly talked about, I said why not. The install was pretty easy, I made it complicated by not using the entire 15GB drive for the OS, and partitioned the disk myself. After that the WIKI had a lot of good information and using Automatix to automate some of the install, I was done. Well, I did have to get the laptop to talk to my ldap server (OpenLDAP running on Fedora Core 3 downstairs). Then I was done. And you know what? I haven't heard one complaint from my wife; who did complained when I upgraded from Windows2000 to WindowsXP per the machine was underpowered an...