Soourslinux
Disclaimer : Z-Ubuntu has had nothing to do with the port of the Ubuntu distribution to the zSeries mainframe from IBM
- Changelog for all tweaks I made on my
- Main Boxes running (successively)
- 6.06 Eft (no longer in use)
- 7.04 Feisty (no longer in use)
- 7.10 Gusty
- 8.04
- 8.10
- 9.04 – still operational on one box
- 9.10 (no longer in use)
- 10.04 – main box
- A ‘new’ Laptop running PuppyLinux (EcoPup flavor). Actually it is not new, but was recently given to my favorite half as a replacement for a stolen iBook.
Puppy enabled me to configure this Sony VAIO Pentium II with (initially) Win 98 (stupidly upgraded to Win 2K by the former proprietor) IOT:- browse the web, = OK
- send & receive e-mail, = OK
- write and print, = OK for write, need to configure a network printer
- listen to CDs = not so good (memory?)
- watch DVDs? = well, if audio is’nt working…
- A fileserver installation
- An Asus eee PC running Ubuntu eee 8.04.1
I have used Ubuntu since 4.10, after a brief -and unsuccessful- hint at Debian. I came -like most of us- from Windows, but decided to opt for a FLOSS OS after discovering a FLOSS alternative to IE browser (succesively an unknown pre-Phoenix, followed by the whole length of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox):