Sleep sleep sleep: part 3

A quick update… this is also noted as Bug 491235 on Red Hat Bugzilla, which points out that it’s also known as bug 11887 on the Kernel.org
Apparently there is work in process, which is positive

3 week project – part 4

So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]

3 week project

I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]

Here we go again…

For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]