Comments on: Short jump to Hardy

By: andrewsomething

andrewsomething — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:18:34 +0000

A bug in Gutsy kept the Nautilus audio previews from working on a lot of set ups….

By: xabbott

xabbott — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:59:44 +0000

Yes, Nautilus has had those audio previews on hover for some time now.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:20:49 +0000

If you mean you’re using stock Ubuntu on that machine, then I salute you sir — you won’t catch me running Gnome on anything lower than 1.6Ghz or so. You have the patience of a saint.

On the other hand, if you’ve trimmed it down from stock, I still salute you. Tricky installations like that are quite gratifying when they work right. Cheers!

P.S.: Is your color depth set too high, by chance? One of the symptoms I run into with Ubuntu on older machines is that it sets the default color depth to 24 in your xorg.conf file, when older machines were only made to do 16-bit. Try changing that and see if you get a proper resolution. Just an idea. …

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:47 +0000

It’s good to read your impressions about Hardy-Alpha. Believe it or not I have it running on an old Gateway Solo 9100. What’s the specifications you might ask? The ‘old’ 9100 is a Pentium 2, with 384mb of RAM, with a clockspeed of 233mhz. I have a 30gig hard drive installed which is the maxium this model can handle.

I cannot boot from the CD drive no matter how many times I “tell” the BIOS to go to the CD first. I had to install the hard drive in another computer and then reinstall it in the 9100. I’ve tried icebuntu, xubuntu, fluxbuntu, Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, also alternate installs and the only one to work with it so far is Hardy?

It takes forever to boot(it seems), and the resolution will only go to 800×600, but it does recognize and boot from my USB flash-drive style Belkin wireless adapter. It runs at a snails-pace, but it is fun to work on and at times it can frustrating? Still, this old workhorse of a computer still works somewhat…