2010-08-06

Ubuntu

I have taken the plunge at home and switched to using ubuntu as my main OS rather than Windows. My laptop was creaking slightly from the 4 years of installs and uninstalls and I sort of couldn't face the job of a reinstall, so I bought a new hard disk and installed ubuntu. I settled on a HITACHI HTS725050A9A364 Travelstar 500GB Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm SATA with 16MB cache. I'm pretty pleased with it as it's quick and quiet, certainly at the moment the fan makes more noise. That's probably stuffed with dust though and I was having an issue where the laptop would suddenly shut down on me. I reckon that was due to overheating, so will try and give the thing a good clean once my can of air arrives.

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