Aged Athalon Now Online

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I Ubuntu'd the aged athalon. This took awhile because the disk image for the installer wasn't completely downloaded. Wasted a bunch of discs figuring that out. I only had a few setbacks.
  1. Screen resolution was too small. This was an Ubuntu configuration bug where the refresh rate is never set for my monitor, so it defaulted to the smallest size possible.
  2. It needed a non-free software video driver for Linux, which I'm not sure there even is for the Voodoo 5500
  3. Samba file sharing was not automagically enabled, and had to be installed and then hand-configured. These days, when you tell Ubuntu/Gnome to share folders, it helps the user step through installing NFS or Samba.
  4. Needs BIND installed so I can refer to other computers on my network by name. This had the interesting side effect while using my privoxy proxy: sometimes, other user's computers were served when browsing to 192.168.0.1. I didn't think that was possible. This has been fixed in my browser settings.
The best part of installing Ubuntu? The Ubuntu/Gnome printer wizard which trivially added the HP PSC 750 with the correct HP driver. Post configure, printing the test page took 1 second. This definately was the easiest setup of a printer under linux I ever did, and the only one that worked the first time.

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