The World of a Penguin

My wife is in London right now so I took the opportunity to upgrade her laptop Piglet (a Zepto 6014w) to run Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). It worked smoothly and Compiz is working great. The upgrade took less time than the roast I had in the oven. It is actually quite boring to write about this since it worked too well. No problem and no surprises. the lack of surprises mostly depends on that I have been using Gutsy for a while on my laptop.

According to the Swedish computer newspaper TechWorld OpenSource ( article in Swedish ) the Danish Laptop provider Zepto sells one of four computers without operating system. My wife bougth one half a year ago. It works terrific with Linux, in her case Ubuntu. I would not hesitate to buy my next laptop from them. Zepto sells computer on mail order all over Europe. I do not understand in what the major computer providers sees the problem. May be I do, it is called Microsoft.

I have now installed Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my wifes laptop from Zepto . It's a 6014W . I do my installation, as usual, through network boot (PXE). I noticed that Zepto has the same bug as my MSI S271 in BIOS for PXE-boot. It will only bot through PXE some times, with no clear pattern when. Unfortunately, I do not like the LVM-configuration in the text based installation. The installation worked smoothly, except the LVM-part. The cause was that I wanted to change what partitions to create. The resolution for the screen got right in the xorg.con-file, but not in the reality. The xorg.conf said 1280x800 but the display showed 1024x768. The solution, which is not obvious, is to install the package 915resolution. I would like to see this installed by default. No extra configuration needed. The default volume control must be remapped to work to another controller in the mixer. The sound worked out of the box. Other things we have tested are: The wireless and network manager works...