Pink Linux Box

[The General]

The new kernel 2.6.17 has built-in support for lots of new wireless cards, my guess is that since Linksys is a popular brand, most or all of their chipsets are supported.

 

[Shannon]

The wireless card is a linksys dual band - something with a 5 in it, I think.

plugging in the power

IDE cable

plugging stuff in

turning on the power!

 

[Ridlyn]

You should really paint the rest of the cd-rom pink too, it looks kinda out of place w/o it pink. Other than that really nice job, it would look amazing with a window+pink cathodes.

 

[Shannon]

The rest of the DVD drive is the same light pink as the S. It even opens and closes and, like, works and everything.

Here I am with the finished box

 

[synth7]

I think you need a new handbag, if that one on the desk is yours.

 

[Shannon]

what's wrong with my handbag? If anyone would like to buy me a new purse, I would be totally okay with it, of course.

Okay, so I have successfully installed Kubuntu onto my new box. I was going to use SUSE but after some people suggested that I not use SUSE, I reconsidered and did a little more research, and decided on Kubuntu, which is ubuntu but with KDE. I booted with System Rescue CD first to wipe the drive because it was my younger sister's old drive and who knows what could be on there. Then I had no problem installing Kubuntu with the dvd I burned from the iso. It looks so pretty! I named the computer Comet, the name of Supergirl's horse.

I set the new box up to use a KVM so it's working fine sharing the keyboard and monitor with my Windows box, but I did have some trouble with the mouse, so I just have two different mice plugged in for now, and I'll look into that later.

Now, it seems, is the challenging part! I am working through the documentation and wikis and things to learn about the OS so that I can, like, install things and do things with it.

 

[synth7]

Ubuntu (and all offshoots like Kubuntu, Xubuntu) have very very good documentation on their wikis.

I'd recommend downloading and installing a package called 'automatix'. Since Ubuntu distro does not ship with anything that isn't strictly open source, you cannot watch MPEGs or listen to MP3s or anything without installing them separately. 'Automatix' doesn this, as well as install a ton of other things that most Windows users are so used to, like Java, etc.

Good luck with it.

 

[Shannon]

thanks for the suggestion, I will look for Automatix

 

[john3]

wow, that looks like a nice case, very nice paint job on it.

 

[æArchOAngelæ]

i dont think anythings wrong with the handbag some girls can pull it off. what would be sweet would be to cut out the edges of the S on the side and put acrylic their and a CC light behind it