{"id":2134,"date":"2011-04-20T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:02:02","slug":"first-hour-with-ubuntu-10-10-on-a-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/20\/first-hour-with-ubuntu-10-10-on-a-laptop","title":{"rendered":"First hour with Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve only used Mac OSX based laptops from Apple largely because I needed a few things to work: suspend\/resume, WiFi, video out. Over that time, I&#8217;ve also grown used to some closed source software: Evernote and OmniOutliner are on my dock, and I really cannot live without them. OK, TextMate is also on my dock, but I&#8217;m still nimble in vim as I still use it daily.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I used Linux? On servers. Plenty of servers, running CentOS and Ubuntu mainly. Servers that I am regularly SSH&#8217;ed into on a daily basis. The other place I use Linux widely is virtual machines (without X).<\/p>\n<p>I picked up a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11&#8243; today with no OS loaded. Much props to Lenovo Malaysia&#8217;s PR agency Text100 &#8211; they read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/18\/is-lenovo-malaysia-interested-in-selling-their-stuff\">post<\/a>, and attempted to solve my problems for me by liaising with Lenovo. Paid for it today with no extra charge on the credit card, and they threw in a case as well.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a Mac, I have to say Ubuntu 10.10&#8217;s initial experience nailed it. I popped the 64-bit ISO that I had burnt to a DVD into an external optical drive, and it just booted. Ubuntu installed with ease, and during installation it detected my WiFi card (so I could connect to the network), and also had working sound out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>During installation, it decided to go on the Net to download packages, and that took about 180MB. It rebooted. And like magic, everything <em>just worked<\/em>. I tried suspending the machine by closing the lid. It worked. I opened the lid to see if it would resume &#8211; it worked. I did this more than once and I&#8217;m pleased to say the laptop works as expected. The hardware keys to control sound, brightness and more all just work. I have not tried video out (there&#8217;s VGA and HDMI) yet.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu has this concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/certification\/release\/10.10\/laptops\/\">certified hardware<\/a>. The specs don&#8217;t match, but it does list the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/certification\/hardware\/201011-6820:201101-6971\">Thinkpad Edge 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are over 300MB of updates to download, which I&#8217;ll do when I get away from unmetered Internet. Quick verdict? 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