New Ubuntu System
August 21, 2006
A couple of week ago, I want to maximize my old system. My old Leprechaun wasn’t a wrecked, the only thing that’s not working in there was the hard drive. I was planning to change the hard drive with a new one and use it to test Ubuntu.
But I tend to change my mind rapidly. Last week after days of researching the perfect specification for my needs, I decided to build a new PC, rather than polishing the old one. With long discussions with my best friend Chris, I bought this new system. : AMD64 3200+ with 1 GB of DDR RAM, integrated graphic card and 80GB hard drive.
This specification is perfect for my purpose. After working at CHIP a year ago, I barely use my desktop PC at home. I gave my brother the one PC (I called it the amusement PC :) that I had and stuck with my old Leprechaun, but actually, I barely touched it. I’ve been busy using my dad’s laptop for my needs, cause face it, laptop’s are more flexible.
However, after some time, I missed using a desktop. I used Linux in a daily basis on my job, but as a server system. I want to use Linux for fun just like old times. After testing Ubuntu, I believe that Linux can be now be fully used as a desktop system just like Windows and Mac.
So I’m guessing that I do not need a state-of-the-art hardware, I even use an integrated graphic card. My emphasis is on memory; 1GB of memory seems more than adequate for Linux, especially on Ubuntu. 80GB of hard drive? Well I can live with a less capacity, but that’s the minimum specification out there in the market.
The first thing that I do after setting up the PC was installing Ubuntu. I had the Ubuntu 6.06 desktop CD for i386, so I install that. There’s not much of a hassle on installing Ubuntu. The only problem that I encounter was the screen resolution, but the problem was resolved after quick search on the Ubuntu forum (which the problem was about the NVIDIA driver).
Then I want to maximize my PC resources, so I change my Linux platform and use the Ubuntu AMD64 platform. I got a big big help from the Ubuntu community especially from Fajran, one of the activists in Ubuntu Indonesia. He helped me get a copy of the 64bit Ubuntu installer and I also ordered the Ubuntu repository DVD from him, because I don’t have Internet access in home to access the remote Ubuntu repository.
Today, I installed the 64-bit Ubuntu and with the Ubuntu guides opens in other window, I installed some of the multimedia and games packages from the DVD repository. All seems okay, no signs of hiccups or error yet (surely I will post it here when I encounter one). So here comes the new era of fun!
(Ironically, I wrote this entry using Mac :P … you know me, I’m not a fan boy of one system, I’m more of a cross-platform guy… ;)
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
Sincerely Yours,
Patrick Gerard van Diest
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- # - So I got bored (again) with the last theme. I had to change it, but not much though. So, here it is in it's full glory. - #
JANGAN! LO JANGAN PERNAH BELI UBUNTU! NTAR LO BISA MASUK RUMAH SAKIT DAN SEGERA DIOPERASI! ADA BEKAS JAHITAN DI PERUT LO! (ubuntu: usus buntu).
On October 31, 2006 at exactly 5:10 pm