I'm using EasyPeasy on a EEE 701 (the very first official netbook) on a daily basis at work. When I upgraded UbuntuEEE 8.04 to Easy Peasy 1.1 (based on Ubuntu 8.10), I started to experience a very slow and intermittent wifi. I tried a lot of tweaks, in vain. I finally found out that replacing the […]
Migrating to Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" 64 bits edition
I've got Ubuntu installed for years on my desktop PC. I changed the hardware twice while still having a very stable distribution -- I could always boot after a major hardware upgrade. I can't say the same about Windows XP. Anyway, that's not the topic here. To migrate from my 32 bits distribution to […]
List all installed packages
It is possible to list all installed packages by using the following command: dpkg --get-selections It is then theoretically possible to export a packages list dpkg --get-selections > myPackets And install these packages by importing this list dpkg --set-selections < myPackets apt-get […]
Ubuntu doesn't boot anymore - GRUB error
I got into trouble when I changed my old 160 GB ata drive to a brand new 1 TB sata drive. I simply used GParted to copy the partitions over from the old disk to the new. When booting on the new disk, I got a screen filled with GRUB GRUB GRUB and so on - and no, it's not a virus. ;-) Several things I […]