{"id":58,"date":"2010-03-27T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-06-26T03:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T02:17:33","slug":"upgrading-your-ubuntu-in-your-dell-mini-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/computing\/upgrading-your-ubuntu-in-your-dell-mini-9","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Ubuntu on your Dell Mini 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate (http:\/\/www.seodesignsolutions.com\/wordpress-seo\/) - Code Inserter module -->\n<!-- SEO Ultimate before item content-->\r\n<!-- #SEO Ultimate before item content-->\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate -->\n\n<p>Apart from a few user commands\u00a0that I know to get by in unix (e.g. ls, mv, cp, top, etc), I am a bit of\u00a0 a noob when it comes to Linux.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a Dell Mini 9 a year ago, and I hardly used it because of its <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">cough<\/span>\u00a0 cripped version of\u00a0 Ubuntu 8.04.\u00a0 I am also a proud owner of an O2 mobile broadband USB stick (Huawei E160).\u00a0 In order to get them to work together,\u00a0 it is easier to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 because of its support with HSPDA modems straight out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>I found this brilliant website\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntumini.com\/2008\/10\/user-guides-for-ubuntu-810-intrpid-ibex.html\">http:\/\/www.ubuntumini.com\/2008\/10\/user-guides-for-ubuntu-810-intrpid-ibex.html<\/a>\u00a0 that took me through the steps to get Ubuntu 8.10 working.\u00a0 The website even taught me a few things about linux file systems (ext2 vs ext 3), swap files\u00a0and their performance penalties\u00a0on the SSD hard drive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Full credits to the guys on the website who help us Dell Mini 9 owners\u00a0out there.<\/p>\n<p>You will certainly need a quiet\u00a0weekend to perform the upgrade &#8211; but don&#8217;t let this deter you &#8211; it is well worth it and it makes your Dell Mini 9 much more usable rather than becoming a &#8220;buy-it-now&#8221; item on ebay.<\/p>\n<p>So for those of you who haven&#8217;t upgraded yet,\u00a0 please back up your data, go ahead the try it out!<\/p>\n\n<!-- SEO Ultimate (http:\/\/www.seodesignsolutions.com\/wordpress-seo\/) - Code Inserter module -->\n<!-- SEO Ultimate after item content-->\r\n<!-- #SEO Ultimate after item content-->\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from a few user commands\u00a0that I know to get by in unix (e.g. ls, mv, cp, top, etc), I am a bit of\u00a0 a noob when it comes to Linux. I bought a Dell Mini 9 a year ago, and I hardly used it because of its cough\u00a0 cripped version of\u00a0 Ubuntu 8.04.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,6,14,270,13],"tags":[243,273,35,32,36,34,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}