Ubuntu on Laptop
Here the story a cousin of my father has called me to help them to
buy a laptop. We have checked different types of laptops in
TechnoMarket and TechnoPolis, Vali and Bergon. In vali we asked
about GPS devices (a device only connecting with a Satellite, which
needs software to be used). I asked the seller in Vali is there a
chance if the Holux GPS to work with Linux. He said he have no idea
I'm citing his words "Only a few people use Linux today" :). Also
the Computer sellers in TechnoMarket weren't much of a competent, I
myself also didn't have enough experience with Laptops. Before
everything began I asked God to guide me in the choice. We choose
to take a Toshiba Sattelite L40 12G or something like this. The
machine is a pretty neat one (2G of ram, Intel video, 120 SATA
Disk). I gave the suggestion to install Linux on the laptop and
spend money of the Operating System (because they would need the
laptop when they travel out of the country, buying furniture to
resell and they don't want to have illegal software. There was an
international warranty issue. The sellers in Technomarket didn't
have data is the laptop with International warranty later we
understood that there is international warranty of 1 year. We
bought the laptop I successfully installed Ubuntu and a ton of
useful software. Today I have installed qemu qemu-launcher and
qemulator. Ubuntu seems to work pretty flawlessly. The idea in the
beginning was to buy a flash memory and install a windows on it
because they needed also to have Windows to install a TBI Credit
(SmartInfo) program. I tried Windows XP/2000/XP Small but all them
required a minimum of 2G of hard disk space to install (!) pretty
annoying and this wasn't possible because the flash memory we had
was only a 1G one. In the end I ended installing the Windows on the
HDD. Thanks to God everything seems to go on in a good way. Thanks
Lord!
The only thing that's left to do is install the Wireless
card properly under Linux and Windows. Glory be to God The Father,
The Son and The Holy Spirit! Now and Forever and Ever. Amen!