Comments on: Mission Accomplished http://helpmerick.com/mission-accomplished.htm Easy to understand computer help Wed, 23 May 2012 11:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/mission-accomplished.htm/comment-page-#comment-2732 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=1668#comment-2732 I have installed Ubuntu in a number of my machines, I even installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a Mac G3...works great. I always use the alternate Text based installed as it will install on every machine that I try to install it on. It seems that Ubuntu will install 1/4 the time as a Windows installation...yes... a time saver! Some machines one must go into the bios/setup menu to change the boot sequence so that one can boot from the disc. The only minor issue that I have with Ubuntu is that you need to download some additional codecs to enable listening to streaming audio and even after that the Mplayer Totem is the one that works for streaming audio...Rhythum box doesn't work for streaming...even after the G-Streamer codecs were downloaded. The ACPI issue will crop up on some older machines, but thats a minor issue too as one just needs to shut down the machine after you shut down Ubuntu. If anyone is installing Ubuntu 7.04 on a IBM 300GL, take note of the start up sequence, change it accordingly and even though the 300GL comes with the soundcard built in...Ubuntu does not recognize it...just install a soundcard in the PCI slot and you should be good to go. I think the LSA and IRQ settings have something to do with this and likely need to be adjusted so that it can be recognized by Ubuntu. I haven't had time to fool with the settings yet to see if that will solve the problem. The built in soundcard worked fine with Windows 98 but will not for Ubuntu, again a simple added PCI soundcard will easily solve that problem. Try to run at least 192 MB Ram, though 128 MB will work...but noticibly slower. I tried the new Freespire 2.0, it seemed to install quicker than Ubuntu 7.04. The big difference with Freespire is that after you install it you can do streaming internet audio with no configuring, no additional installing, no additional downloading. I just clicked on the link on the the listen live and it played fine right the first time! Thats progress...also the desktop wallpaper can be changed to many different backgrounds thus making your desktop like a windows OS. I have installed Ubuntu in a number of my machines, I even installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a Mac G3…works great. I always use the alternate Text based installed as it will install on every machine that I try to install it on. It seems that Ubuntu will install 1/4 the time as a Windows installation…yes… a time saver!

Some machines one must go into the bios/setup menu to change the boot sequence so that one can boot from the disc.

The only minor issue that I have with Ubuntu is that you need to download some additional codecs to enable listening to streaming audio and even after that the Mplayer Totem is the one that works for streaming audio…Rhythum box doesn’t work for streaming…even after the G-Streamer codecs were downloaded. The ACPI issue will crop up on some older machines, but thats a minor issue too as one just needs to shut down the machine after you shut down Ubuntu.

If anyone is installing Ubuntu 7.04 on a IBM 300GL, take note of the start up sequence, change it accordingly and even though the 300GL comes with the soundcard built in…Ubuntu does not recognize it…just install a soundcard in the PCI slot and you should be good to go. I think the LSA and IRQ settings have something to do with this and likely need to be adjusted so that it can be recognized by Ubuntu. I haven’t had time to fool with the settings yet to see if that will solve the problem. The built in soundcard worked fine with Windows 98 but will not for Ubuntu, again a simple added PCI soundcard will easily solve that problem. Try to run at least 192 MB Ram, though 128 MB will work…but noticibly slower.

I tried the new Freespire 2.0, it seemed to install quicker than Ubuntu 7.04. The big difference with Freespire is that after you install it you can do streaming internet audio with no configuring, no additional installing, no additional downloading. I just clicked on the link on the the listen live and it played fine right the first time! Thats progress…also the desktop wallpaper can be changed to many different backgrounds thus making your desktop like a windows OS.

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