My only real problem with Ubuntu has been caused by using the Canadian repositories instead of the general (US?) ones.
I don’t know how I feel about using packages instead fo doing stuff from source. I guess it’s nice to be warned about updates and stuff but it just seems so weird. Like cheating or something. […]

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I got a laptop! w()()T!!!
specs:

P4-M (2.00 Ghz)
512 MB Ram
40 GB HDD
~7 pounds

I decided to go with Ubuntu (5.10 Breazy Badger) and … WOW. *EVERYTHING* works:

Battery Status is fully displayed.
Wireless works (had to be configured for North American wireless networks).

The only thing approaching a problem is that glx gears doesn’t display the frame rate so I […]

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