The fact that this is being written in gedit in Ubuntu shows that finally, my wish has worked. I now have a working Ubuntu system. True its only my old PC running at 800×600 with no mouse and no network, but its better than nothing. I haven’t really been able to explore Feisty, as I haven’t got a mouseball inside my mouse, so moving it is actually pretty hard, but the boot screen and general appearance is good. I don’t know if I’d use this as my primary OS, as I use a lot of Windows based applications which are more to my needs (America’s Army, Whatpulse etc.).

I’m no stranger to using Linux. I’ve had it across numerous servers for over two years and have used it on desktops for ages. I’m a Gentoo fan (which incidentally had 2007.0 released within the last few days). I have my personal uptime record in Gentoo, of 21 days and 18 hours, before I stupidly pulled out the power cable with my foot. I can remember those days like it was yesterday, although actually it was late 2005.
I remember having to do live soldering on my mouse, because I didn’t want to unplug it from the powered-up system in case it didn’t accept the plug’n'play and I had to reboot. And the one feature I used countlessly, [Ctrl] [Alt] [Backspace] restarts the X session, but keeps your system on. This is very useful if a program crashes.

On my Windows (and main PC), I’m still having troubles with Ubuntu, and even 2 days after posting on ubuntuforums.org (link), I still haven’t got it resolved. So I think it was time to give up on it for now, and just continue with Windows (XP, not Vista) until such a time where I am able to get my problem resolved.

So here I am, a Tuesday night, sitting facing my ubuntu desktop, with my keyboard on my knees, and my feet on top of the case, typing away at this blog post, which I’m about to save onto my pen drive and then upload to my actual blog from Windows.

Until next time, see you all :