From knowledge of the real world, I should know better. However, not being the swiftest creature on the face of the planet...
I actually started out doing some research on older Ubuntu distros, and thought I might download/burn one of those. However, I'd had a distro of Puppy Linux 5.3 "Wary Puppy" sitting on the Toshiba's HD, so I got a wild hair, and ka-ZAM!, burned another CD.
Actually, that sentence should end thus: "...so I got a wild hair, and ka-ZAM!,
Yeah, it didn't work. Well, it did, as long as you booted only from the CD. Installing the system to the hard disk was a disaster, probably due to my not really following some of the onscreen instructions... But let's not go there...
Back to plan...whatever. I did some more research, and noted a lot of references to Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" running on a R40. So...
You know the rest of the story. Just insert "installed/updated/ran fine, until I hit 'Suspend' ", and you'll have it.
Which is a crying shame, as I actually liked what I saw in "Lynx." Now, granted, I seem to be one of the few people in the universe who likes Unity, but I have to admit I liked the default GNOME setup. (Though I most certainly would've dandied it up a bit, but...) Probably for the same reason I like the MATE interface in Mint...
So, the R40 is back under the bed, awaiting tomorrow re-exile to the back room. I need to go delete all the .ISO's that have been burnt to disk. (Don't think I need to waste hard disk space on them now.)
Not much else to note. I've been feeling a few stirrings to write, but just haven't. Though I might just have a good bit of time on my hands. There's a possibility, given the way the wind blows, that we might get hammered with a charming weather front this coming week.
Keeping my fingers crossed. No snow...No snow...No snow...
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