I passed my Comptia linux+ certification today. I can say that with no formal training, I did it on my own.
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Archive for April, 2010
While discussing my iBook linux project, an associate went on an unprovoked rant about apple. While I don’t completely agree with his point of view, it was a good rant…
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I finally took a crack at getting everything to work with the iBook on ubuntu. Well sort of. I have problems with sound, and with CD-AutoMount. The CD-Automount is related to a known bug in 9.10. Hopefully 10.4 will have this fixed. I can still mount from command line, and that is good enough for me. I don’t use this iBook for sound or media, so sound isn’t important to me either. Below is my list of requirements
My requirements
1 Functional Linux OS with GUI
2 Ethernet, and wifi with WPA
3 Power management including screen dimming and quick and reliable suspend and hibernation.
4 Ability to easily install applications with apt-get for computer network related tasks. This includes wire sniffers and network analyzers as well as functional web browsers (with flash and java) to help with researching problems.
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