However - seems a bit S...L...O...W when navigating around and in Firefox and playing youtube.
No Unityplayer plugin available so the boys wont be able to play their fav. Lego Chima game. Installed Chrome from the software center and it was dreadful - flash animations wouldn't render properly and it seemed uber juddery/glitchy - so sacked it straight off. Ho Hum - Guess I have a working laptop for the boys to play on and will just hope that a Unity Plugin arrives soon.
I had problems with ubuntu based distribution (i tried mint and normal ubuntu) and slow internet. Apparently the network card is known for not working well. Swapped to mageia and its much faster so could try that? Same method as linux mint, make a iso image on a cd (they've made it cd size which is useful) boot on cd and then follow install instructions, re-boot and enjoy fast internet Hope that helps
I've just started dabbling with the penguin, got a raspberry pi for xmas and have just loaded ubuntu onto an old desktop. I've loaded retropie onto a spare micro sd and was trying to ftp some roms from the desktop to the pi which didn't work so I tried to ping the pi which said it was down until I typed into the terminal > nmap -Pn <ipaddress> which then got a response and I was able to ftp. What does "Pn" do? I only did it because the terminal suggested I should try it and I've tried searching for it but pn is not an easy term to search for.
man nmap
nmap -h
man -K networking
sudo lshw -h > /home/chris20/tmp/my_hardware.html
mkdir ~/tmp && sudo lshw -h > /home/chris20/tmp/my_hardware.html
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Motherboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26 I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at ea010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at ea000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01 Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=2 Masked- Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel modules: r8169