{"id":3052,"date":"2010-01-08T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T07:54:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:54:52","slug":"finally-linux-on-my-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Finally &#8211; Linux on my laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally decided to take the time to install Linux on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardware.no\/artikler\/lenovo_thinkpad_t60\/28510\">Lenovo T60<\/a>. Intentionally I planned to have two distros, one which just fires a browser and another one which offers a fullblown OS. But I got tired of trying to find a suitable small distro, also knowing that wireless can be troublesome with some of them, I decided to just go for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/products\/whatisubuntu\/910features\">Ubuntu 9.10<\/a>. The whole process of downloading and installing was done in less than two hours. I threw out Windows XP completely, no dual boot, planning to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">Wine<\/a> instead to run the few Windows applications I need (or maybe if everything fails, just use a VmWare image).<\/p>\n<p>First I installed using Norwegian locale, but realized that I really does not enjoy Norwegian language on my computer, so I followed this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbeacock.com\/2007\/01\/how-to-change-your-default-locale-on.html\">guideline<\/a> and in just a few minutes and a reboot everything is in English now. Quite fancy I must say, Ubuntu even changed the names of my folders &#8220;Skrivebord&#8221; &#8211;> &#8220;Desktop&#8221;&#8230;fancy I must say!<\/p>\n<p>Connecting to my wireless was the thing I feared the most, but that has also become very easy. The drivers for my T60 is now part of the kernel, and when I just figured out <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=432445\">where to click<\/a> to connect to wireless it was done in just a minute or so.<\/p>\n<p>Want to do more today, but since I&#8217;m sick at home I most of all want to sleep \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally decided to take the time to install Linux on my Lenovo T60. Intentionally I planned to have two distros, one which just fires a browser and another one which offers a fullblown OS. But I got tired of trying to find a suitable small distro, also knowing that wireless can be troublesome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14551,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}