So I have been working on line through Ubuntu for about a week now. I have had a couple of inquiries on how I got it working. Well, it wasn’t easy. In fact it was ridiculous! To expect so much investigation and work in order to make your distro work is unrealistic. It took about [...]

Okay, so lets deal with some of the problems that are freaking me out about my first experience with Linux…and Ubuntu. One of them is the stupid jumping touchpad. You know , when you are typing away on a really good rant and then suddenly you are typing on a totaly different line. Or you [...]

I have to appologize for the lengthy gaps between posts of late. Part of it is of course – life happens – but also the frustration in getting Ubuntu working is causing me not to spend any extra time on the computer. Remember, I am not a computer gal…just a penguin gal. I think that [...]

Okay, I am moving slower these days, as I am only a novice and it takes me a while to figure out what to do ( or what to ask my resident Linux geek Jon) prior to entering it in my blog. If there is one thing I am realizing so far, it is that [...]

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When I last left off, I had done all the research and had readied my computer for Linux. After looking at several Linux distros, I chose to install Ubuntu…no reason…just like saying that word (oooobuntwo) Makes you want to smile! I didn’t have a disk so I had [...]

Well, so much for this being an easy job. Once I finally got my CDs, I sat down to burn my recovery disks, which took a very very long time. Here is how it went:
Hint, make sure you plug in the power prior to starting this, if you use your juice up in the middle [...]

First issue: After doing the research that I spoke about in my last Linux Diary entry, I found a little snag; my laptop did not come with a Windows XP CD.  It did, however, come with a utility to make factory restore CDs. When run, these CDs will restore my laptop to the condition it [...]

We have looked at the different possibilities for using Linux – dual boot/clean install – and I have decided to do a clean install. In other words, I will be dumping Windows, partitioning the hard drive and bringing on the new operating system. In case I might want to dual boot (win/lin) later, I will [...]

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So you want to install Linux. Well what is it? What makes it so special? What are the advantages to changing my current operating system – which happens to be Microsoft Windows – to a system that I know so very little about? These are questions that I asked [...]

Those of you who know me, probably know me through the JaK Attack Podcast. I am Kelly Penguin Girl, co-host of a show that is all about laughter, tech news, rants, and good times. It is also about Linux, something that I know very very little about. Something that my co-host Jon Watson knows way [...]