Well, that was a long title.

My mother recently changed her 4-year old Dell Inspiron 4100 for a brand new iMac G5, so I took that old laptop (20 GB hard disk, 256 MB RAM) and, after backing up her data, wiped it completely and reinstalled it with the following configuration:

• Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (I just hate Windows XP, and think that Windows 2000 is the best ever Windows)
• Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy”

Then I bought a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter with SpeedBooster, to be able to use my wireless connection at home (in 2002 Dell notebooks did not have wireless LAN adapters by default). Of course, installing it in Windows 2000 was easy, but the difficult part was to have it running in Ubuntu… Continue reading →