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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 Ubuntu Debian-derived Linuxes machine machines:

    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):

  1. 2x Main Boxes running (successively)
    • A now defunct (& replaced by one of the 2x abovementioned boxes) Internet kiosk running (successively) under:

    • Xubuntu 6.06 and 7.10 (no longer in use, too slow)
    • DSL v3.3
    • Fluxbuntu v7.10
  2. 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 previous owner) 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…
  3. A HP miniPC initially running Windows XP & now happy with Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition
  4. An Asus eee PC 701 (non-surf 4G) initially running Ubuntu eee 8.04.1 & now some flavor of 8.10 with a tweaked kernel, but longing to also run Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition