Fresh Installation of Gutsy crash

This is rather frustrating. Just as I am getting excited with the Gutsy Live CD, and happily proceed to go on with a fresh installation, my desktop start to behave strangely. It hang quite often, with no obvious pattern.

Sometimes it is while using Ubuntu Synaptic Manager, sometimes it is just surfing the net, sometimes it is nothing at all, just let it idle for a while, then it hang. Sometimes it just jump out to the login screen, and re-login will sometimes give your some "Greeter application crash" error message. Ya, you will notice that there are too many sometimes here, what really frustrating me is the intermittent nature of this error, you can't really tell what is causing it. And Gutsy is working perfectly ok before I did the fresh installation.

I have tried to re-install, more than 5 times. I have tried to install Feisty, if it work then maybe upgrade from there. But both fail. I don't really think that this is Gutsy problem, maybe it is just my machine. Of course I have google high and low for it, but so far didn't seems to find any similar experience or solution to this. The thing is, I have spent the whole weekend trying to get this thing work, while I should really spending this time working with it. So, reluctantly, I have decided to stop this, at least for the time being. Now the machine is running Windows. It is really disappointing after I have getting used to working in Ubuntu environment, just that I really don't have the capacity to digg deeper into the issue as of now.

Hmmm...think the lesson learn here is, if it ain't broken, then don't fix it.

Gutsy CD is here

I have already upgraded my Ubuntu from Feisty to Gutsy.
But I always plan to have a fresh installation, once the CD arrive.
I have been waiting for weeks, almost seems like eternity. Finally, the CD pack arrived yesterday.


Hurray, now I am going to have the installation done as soon as I finish this post.

Ubuntu Update

Well, the CD didn't arrive faster than my download. I have actually install Ubuntu after downloaded the image, in fact this post is being typed and published in Ubuntu while I still waiting for the CD.

This could be just my personal opinion, Ubuntu 7.04 did feel a bit faster than Fedora Core 7.0 on the same machine. I heard a lot of rave about the simplicity of Ubuntu menu layout, but I didn't really see a big different with Fedora. Oh, and I think Fedora Core artwork look nicer than Ubuntu, I especially love the hot air balloon in version 7.0.

But moving around menu and installing applications did feel faster in Ubuntu, not sure why. System boot up also seems to be a lot faster. So far, I have already installed ruby, rails and also mongrel, so can play with Rails in Ubuntu now.

But something really bad happen after installing Ubuntu though, it seems like I couldn't login to Fedora at another partition. Can't even mount it after boot into Ubuntu. Have read lot of tips and hints on the net, but still trying.

Another great thing about Ubuntu is that the irc channel #Ubuntu is really useful, I have lot of my questions answered there.

I hate how Ubuntu displaying Chinese Character though....down right ugly, see screenshot below. Even after I have downloaded a few font packages, it still look the same. Damn. Fedora Core would have no problem at all displaying Chinese Character straight out of the box.

Ubuntu CD

I have been running Fedora Core 6 for sometimes now on my desktop...so far it has been pretty good. Fedora Core 7 actually available. But think of it, I just feel a bit tired of putting my PC on for overnight for several days, and checking the percentage of download every half an hour and yet the increase is so minimal that I feel like quiting.

But....I have just order myself a free Ubuntu CD. haha. Maybe I have just reading too much into the hype of Ubuntu. Hey, but when I read from Robert's Talk that Mark Pilgrim decided to switch (from OSX to Ubuntu no less) , I just couldn't help to give it a try. After all, I have picked up Python from Mark's Dive into Python.


CD delivery absolutely free of charge? I know that sound a bit unbelievable, but I read it here that the CD did get delivered, even to this part of the world, and take only 18 days. Even exceeded the 6-10 weeks delivery date as stated. Meanwhile, I will actually start the downloading process of Fedora Core 7 as well. The screenshot(1,2,3) look so neat, plus there
is some sentimental value with Fedora Core being my first Linux system. Perhaps, I will download Ubuntu installer at the same time.

We should see if the CD delivery reach my doorstep ahead of the download. :-)

Note: Fedora Core actually has a similar service of sending out free DVD set, which is called Fedora Free Media Program, but there is an announcement dated 2007-06-01 on the page that they have reached their capacity(200 DVDs) for the month of June, WOW! Reach capacity of the month on the first day of the month itself? Think I better download it from torrent.