While hanging out in the soccer room during the end of the match between England and Portugal, I noticed that one of the attendees was using a notebook with a slick-looking OS that I’d never seen before. I eventually figured out that he was using Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been toying around with the idea of switching to Linux for a couple years, but never really had a machine to experiment with. Then I remembered that I had a somewhat-broken PowerBook G4 down in the garage.
As soon as I got home from Gnomedex on Sunday, I created an Ubuntu LiveCD. Booting from the CD was going fine until, during the splash screen, error dialogs started piling up. Something called Bonobo wasn’t loading properly, which led to significant parts of the UI not being rendered.
I didn’t have much luck finding information that would help me to fix the problem. Eventually, I got frustrated and gave up. I probably could’ve spent more time researching the problem, but I have better things to do than figure out how to make a computer function so I can get real work done.
However, I’m open to giving it another try. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
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Yeah, if I remember correctly, aren’t computers supposed to help make things easier for us?