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Tuesday August 05, 2008

It came from Uranus...I mean Ubuntu About a year ago I was tempted by some linux purists to abandon my dual boot setup and stick to Ubuntu only on my laptop...something stopped me. I pictured a scene from "It came from Uranus" where my laptop gets eaten up somehow. How right I was to trust that instinct. A quick google search will reveal numerous forum posts about "Ubuntu is killing your laptop". Seems an earlier version of Ubuntu had a bug where the hard drive does not shutdown properly and initiates an "emergency unload". This sounds like a pop. Do this often enough and you reduce the life of the hard drive (apparently). The bug has been addressed and is fixed. So don't be fiesty, be gutsy or hardy instead.
Posted by Gusius Gus in Politics at 20080805 Comments[0]