floccinaucinihilipilification: The Blog » linux http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of blogging Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Hardy Heron on the EEE http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/2008/05/01/hardy-heron-on-the-eee/ http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/2008/05/01/hardy-heron-on-the-eee/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01:53 +0000 Darin http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/blog/?p=40 I dropped Gentoo from my eee. I could not get it set up the way I wanted, so I thought I would try something else. Ubuntu has been getting all the good press, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I upgraded from 7.04, which I had been playing with. Everything went pretty smoothly, except for the wired networking. After the upgrade the wired network would not work. A little web searching turning up an odd fix. Unplug the cable, remove the battery and wait for a few seconds. Plug everything back together and it should work. It worked for me. I assume it was some sort of cold reboot of the hardware.

Once that was done, I downloaded the script from http://eee.ricey.co.uk and ran that. It fixed the wifi and the other assorted little issues. So far everything seems good.

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Even cooler, is Beyond the Red Line a total conversion that is implementing a Battlestar Galactica game in the Freespace 2 engine. So far they have just released a demo, but it is pretty good.

Even though I am playing these under linux, they also appear to be available for Windows and OS X.

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