Comments on: Linux, Ubuntu and Me

By: Brian Cantin » Shocking Customer Service

Brian Cantin » Shocking Customer Service — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:41 +0000

[...] to jump through all of Microsoft’s little hoops to legally use their software. During my recent adventures in Linux I accidentally turfed my NTFS partition – it was readable from Linux but no longer recognized [...]

By: Brian Cantin » Ubuntu, Stage One

Brian Cantin » Ubuntu, Stage One — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:03:35 +0000

[...] Stage One By Brian, November 29, 2007 1:17 pm As per yesterdays post, I’ve been working at getting a Ubuntu Linux system running with very particular requirements [...]

By: Brian Cantin » Hacking The RTL8187b On Linux

Brian Cantin » Hacking The RTL8187b On Linux — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:01:36 +0000

[...] On Linux By Brian, November 30, 2007 8:14 pm As I’ve mentioned in previous articles (Linux, Ubuntu and Me; Ubuntu, Stage One; and Ubuntu, Stage Two) my network is wireless using a USB dongle that I insist [...]

By: Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:50:00 +0000

Brian, I found your blog with a search for the Realtek 8187b, and I’ve enjoyed reading a bunch of the other entries. Keep up the good work.

By: Brian Cantin

Brian Cantin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:28:00 +0000

Well, so far so good… I’ve posted a follow up and hope to have some screenshots of this system in action. My experience with BSD is very little, and quite dated… The last time I used a BSD system was NetBSD on a 680×0 Macintosh back in the mid ’90s.

By: Jafo

Jafo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:50:00 +0000

I wish you luck. I too want to get started with Linux. I picked up another computer system to practice and learn on and have my copy of Open BSD at the ready. Now if I could find time to get to it. I’ll be watching for your updates to see how you do.