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The start, and the next steps

Just a short overview of where I am right now:

About two weeks ago I finally made the decision to buy a Dell Mini 10V,

with the Intel Atom N270, 1GB Ram, 160 GB HDD, 10" display, and Ubuntu Hardy Heron installed.

(On a side note, I really wanted it to be smaller and have more Ram, and of course the next day Dell had the Mini 9 with 2GB Ram and a 16 GB SSD on its website, but unfortunately that was too late).

The system arrived about a week later, everything working right out of the box, WiFi setup was a breeze. The only strange thing was that Dell included a little note stating to set the resolution to 1024x576, but Ubuntu only offered 1024x600 as an option.

I have to say I really like the netbook form factor :-)

Did nothing over the weekend due to family obligations other than run the automatic update and download the latest Java release, Eclipse (both Java and C/C++), the latest version of Firefox and the latest version of Open Office as I knew the internet connection would be dodgy in the hotel.

The next steps from here are:

• get my way around Ubuntu to begin with;
• find out how to format a USB stick (does not seem trivial);
• find out how to install programs (and what exactly is RPM?);
• google ressources on the internet that shall guide me along;
• try "hello, world" with Eclipse.

And all of this with 'asynchronuos internet', that is try something at night, google the next step the next day in the office.

The dreaded first post

Right. How to start. This is a blog which should accompany my journey into the Land Of Linux, Ubuntu flavour.

To ease the transition the first step was to buy a Dell Mini 10V with Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) pre-installed. It arrived, and low and behold, everything works, the MP3 and MP4 codecs are installed, and the first step was as easy and painless as it could be.

On to the next steps. Figure out how this blogging thing works. Play around with the base settings on the trusty netbook. Then on to more adventurous steps. I also want to learn Java, so Eclipse needs to be installed. Later on I want to upgrade to Karmic Koala. And from there, the world.

The fact that I am away from home every school night and the hotel's WiFi does not work most of the time will make things a bit slow.