Happy New Year!!!

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Bob Hemus wrote:
> Well, all you fellas and gals, Have a Happy Safe and Sober New Year!!!
> I know some body's going to ask or tell "which"...
>
> Back to the basics. A retired school teacher friend of mine received a
> laptop with Vista on it UGH!  I wrote her and told her I'd ask my
> esteemed group of techies what the glitches were when installing Ubuntu
> 8.04.  I 'membered when it first came out there were some work a-rounds.
> Have they been fixed?  This gal may be a "convertible".  She's pretty
> bright.
>
> Again, hope you are all here in the morn.
> Bob

I guess it depends on the laptop.....

I bought a Toshiba Satellite model last summer and it had Vista.   After I 
dumped that and loaded Kubuntu, the wifi wouldn't work and the eth card 
wouldn't work.

Didn't take long to get the wifi working but I waited a long time to get the 
(Marvel Yukon) eth0 connection to work.

And loading up Windows XP wasn't much better.....   In that case I think Eth0 
worked fine but the wifi didn't.

It's a mixed bag depending on the hardware in the laptop.