[PLUG] Jaunty-licious

[drew wymore]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:21 AM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>wrote:
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>> I just completed an in place upgrade to Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on my T42
>> laptop.
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>> No issues found yet.
>> Window widgets are much improved - Firefox display of scrollbars and other
>> X stuff works properly again.
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>> If you've been considering my experience indicates going ahead is fine.
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>> --
>>      Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
>>    Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity
>>           http://www.jamhome.us/
>>  The fortune cookie says:
>> The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
>> but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
>>        --  Alan Perlis
>>
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> I decided to take the leap and install JJ and I like it so far. However I
> have run in to 2 issues. I can't seem to get my wireless card to associate
> with my access point, something that hasn't been an issue with this laptop
> when using Fedora or Slackware. I also can't seem to enable desktop effects,
> Slackware doesn't offer this out of the box but with Fedora I had no issues.
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> I'm off to research.
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Installed a couple of packages and enabled the proper plugins and compiz
works wonderfully, my need for eye candy satisfied now I just have to figure
out the wifi issue.