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My, my, my how the time flies by.

Well its been a while since I first downloaded and installed Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on my work laptop (64 bit). I have to say, it has been fun. I just love it when stuff works. I started off the whole process with a home directory backup. I have a 500 GB external HD that I just copied my whole home directory straight over to. It took quite a bit of time, but then I had everything safely stored in another location so I could completely wipe the HD in the laptop and install a 64 bit OS (previously I was running Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit). The install went fast (from a CD about half an hour) and then I was up and running. The ATI card in the laptop was already supported (no need to install a third party driver to get compiz to work) and within an hour I had everything I needed to get the work I needed to do done. A nice chunk of that hour was spent trying to customize and figure out empathy (the new default IM client for Karmic replacing Pidgin). After that I decided I just needed to install Pidgin for my IM client and everything else went smoothly. I have tried using the new software center a few times now to discover new software that I might like to install. It is great for just that, but don’t try installing anything from it. I don’t know if it is just me it not but it seems to take forever to install anything through that application. I have also done a lot of customizing with the humanity icons in my panel. These are the one color icons that showed up in Karmic. For example my last post shows some of the Pidgin icons I made to look more like the theme. I have since used most of the custom icons posted on OMG Ubuntu.

My work laptop running Ubuntu 9.10