My Desktop Welcomes Kubuntu
June 22, 2008
Well, finally was able to get a project I have been meaning to do for a while out of the way this weekend. However, it was fairly complex to actually get Kubuntu or any linux distribution up and running on my desktop. Actually, one mouse died during the experience (I must note that it was already misbehaving and in need of a replacement).
The hardest thing about getting this install done, as most technologists, is that I do not have an average computer setup. Currently it has 3 SATA drives including 2 WD Raptures and another drive for simply storage. Since the rapture drives operate at 10,000 RPM and have 36GB each they are great fits for what needs to be fast vs the slower 7,200 120 GB which is great for all of my storage. On top of that running my older AMD Athlon 3200+ with the 2GB ECC registered memory and a nice PCI-E XFX GeForce 8400 and not to mention the 2 cd/dvd burners it was a pain to get it all up and running correctly. On top of that nForce 4 boards can be a pain to get running right.
After about 15 hours of investing and researching I was finally able to find all of the flags to pass to the kernel. Before I found all of these flags I was plagued with freezes and could hardly get anything. It is very nice to have this complete and I am loving it. Now if I could get my dual monitors to work without crashing that is the next step.
Next projects on the list:
- Finish setting up my Linux environment for development.
- Start writing the next blog post for performance (hopefully a little more thorough).
- Start to get a preview version of a current project I want to release at some point (should be helpful to organizations that deal with development).
- Start writing a book (maybe, eventually).
Who knows, there are so many things to do and just simply not enough time. In case you are interested in the flags that I had to use for my install of Kubuntu and you are looking to do the same thing:
noapic nolapic acpi=off irqpoll pci=noacpi pnpbios=off
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