A month ago I had a laptop failure that, cool enough, resulted in me having a better laptop. I love my company and my company loves the programmer. hehe.

So from a Toshiba Tecra S2 (that occasionally wouldn’t even start sometimes. Possible fix below) to a Compaq nw9440. Sweet.

Since I have to setup a new OS anyway, I decided to give Fedora 10 a try since my first Linux experience back in 2001 was on a Red Hat. At first Fedora 10 was cool. It starts up nicely, didn’t like how they did the gdm login though. There was a minor update manager upgrade hiccup at first but I got that fixed by changing the repositories (I think).

After a month of use, Ubuntu 9.04 was released and I guess I’m just a Ubuntu fan. So I downloaded Ubuntu, installed it last night and left the laptop on for the updates, extra application installation and copying my old home directory to this new one.

In the morning, I have a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 ready for playfulity productivity.

And then for some reason I couldn’t update/install because the repository http://my.archive.ubuntu.com keeps on timing out. So I edited the source.list file to get the files from archive.ubuntu.com, reload the package manager and that managed to get it working.

Anyway, I guess I’m close to getting development environment up and running again. Just needs to load up xampp (love you guys because all I need to do is copy over the lampp folder to my new /opt/ ).

//Toshiba Tecra s2 possible no-start fix. Possibly could ruin your life forever too so beware!
1. Try taking out the battery and just use the power supply.
2. Syukri of QIPMC mentioned that he opened up his machine and found that the screw near the keyboard or heatsink was loose. Tightening that up seems to make the problem go away.
3. Go change the motherboard. This was what I did twice.
//endOfToshiba Tecra s2 possible no-start fix.

So let see what happens after a month of using Ubuntu.