Asus Laptop: Part 1 - The Chameleon

With several justifications in mind, I've purchased an ASUS F3JR laptop... and of course it was on sale at 25% off :)

The experiment began less than 24 hours after purchase.. AIM: To evaluate the potential of Linux on the modern Laptop (knowing too well that I could implode the hard disk back to 'MS Wishta' at any time).

I've played with a dual boot system and Ubuntu previously and was reasonably impressed with the robust nature and gentle introduction to most things Linux. With this in mind, I burn't a copy of Ubuntu Feisty (x64) and installed from there. Of course there was a bit of research to find out what speed bumps lay ahead. The main culprit was the drivers for the ATI graphics ( I should have downloaded the text-based Ubuntu installer, but that's hind sight). There is a known work-around/fix for the ATI graphics issue and if you have a hard-wired Ethernet connection to the internet, then you can use that work-around to utilise the normal graphical installer.

Other than that there have been a few other things I've worked on since the initial install.. I have my own IMAP mail server, my music collection, Thunderbird, Firefox and ongoing experiments with running Windoze software under wine such as MYOB.

So far so good.. future things to come are finding a good WYSIWYG html editor, a circuit board layout software package and an efficient way of scanning and storing documents to reduce the mountains of paper around this place.

C Y'all.