Downloaded the latest Ubauntu desktop edition from the website and burned the ISO image on the CD. Restarted the system by changing the BIOS booting preferences and ubuntu booted from the Live CD. The advantage with the Live CD kind of installation is, you can play with the system , before you want to really decide whether to install it on your hard disk. As i am impressed with the following features..
- Hibernate option
- Network configuration is much easier than windows, Lot of screens to resemble the Windows Control panel, So you really dont need to go to xterm/CLI.
- Sound Card, Network Interface detected automatically..
- Update manager to make sure your system is up-to-date with new fixes/patches.
I decided to install it.
After 15 minutes, asked for the the boot loader preferences and i am ready to using linux along with my windows vista . But the most annoying thing after installing the linux is the ability to choose the right screen resolution. By default the maximum screen resolution i have got is 800x600, So, i have to spend around 3 hours to download the latest nvidia drivers and install it.
The configuration i have used is
nvidia geforce 6150 Video card came with Dell Dimension C5221
Samsung 941BW screen resolution 1440x900
Actually, ubuntu is maintaining very good website http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to search for any kind of packages you might need.
I just downloaded nvidia-glx-new_1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-16.29_i386.deb and executed some of these steps.
installed this package like this
dpkg --install #pkg name#
enabled the new driver like this..
nvidia-xconfig -c /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Thats it, after restarting the system and i have got the beautiful screen resolution i was looking for..
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