Lightness

Soooo....  Given the title, I wanted to do an Unbearable Lightness of Being joke, but just couldn't make it happen...  (And if you've not seen the movie...  Uhm....  I don't know what to say...)  (And I'm letting you off the hook as far as Kundera's book is concerned.  I never made it through, either.)

It's been a bit of a day.  Was in the office, testing the T61 on the office network.  (Everything kosher, except the main network printer.  Going to have to do some fiddling...)

Came home this evening, and ran into a bit of a problem.  Seems I hadn't locked in the "proprietary graphics drivers" that the Nvidia chip in this thing needs, so I had some odd screen issues when coming out of suspend mode.  After a bit of fun reinstalling those, everything seems copacetic.

I've been looking at the WinXP install on the R40, and contemplating a change there.  So, after some rather hasty study, I decided to give Lubuntu a try.  Yes, Lubuntu, the "Light-weight Ubuntu".   Supposedly smaller in footprint than Xubuntu, the original light Ubuntu distro...

Anyway, I downloaded the .ISO (the disk image) from the Lubuntu section of the Ubuntu web pages, and then realized that I needed a CD to burn it to.  Off I go, digging around the room.  After digging my way to the far side of my desk, I discovered the remnants of box of CD-R's that I'd had since...  uh...  Well, they're CD-R's...  I've had'em for a while...

A quick run through the Ubuntu CD/DVD burner utility, Brasero, and voilá, I have my new OS CD.

So, I drag out the R40, boot it up, pop the CD in, and the system recognizes it.  Cool!  So, reboot the system, pop into the setup and tell it to boot from CD and...

Nothing happens.

I'm then informed that the CPU doesn't have what it takes to run this software.

Performance issue jokes aside, I'm not particularly happy.

Away goes the R40, out comes the T60.  A quick run-through again, and HEY!, the system live boots from the CD!  (At least I know I can still burn a CD properly...)

Lubuntu 12.10 came up fine, identified the wireless, and I was able to get online with Chromium (which would normally give me hives, but this time wasn't bad...), then just flipped through the rest of the included software.  Not bad.  I kind of like it.  Certainly more spare than the Unity desktop, but that's good.  Even running from the live boot, the system responded quick and snappy.

So, I have a installer disk for Lubuntu, and really nothing to use it on.  I don't know if it'll run on the CF29 or not.  (Drivers for the touch screen???)  Not sure what I'm going to do here...
I am thinking about clearing the WUBI install of Ubuntu 12.10 off the Toshiba, and doing an "inside Windows" install there, to see how it handles.  And I've still got the mysterious "Other" system coming, hopefully soon.  That's a possibility...

So, I'm ending the day, and putting the lightness aside...