Friday, April 2, 2010

First Post

Hello, i'm Kay a GIS-tech from Belgium. In this blog i'm try to tell you about my experiences with GIS and other FOSS software on Ubuntu.

Obviously the first thing i did is install Ubuntu on my Sony Vaio Laptop.
Feeling a bit adventurous i got the first Beta version of their newest release Lucid Lynx.

After burning the ISO to a CD, i restarted my PC, booting from the CD, I could test the OS right away without installing anything, pretty cool.

Anyway i went trough install wizard, made a separate partition for my windows and ubuntu and less then a 15 minutes later it was done, i was running linux .

The first thing i did was to update my system, because the beta was out for some time there was already quite list of patches. I also enabled all the software sources, so i wouldn't miss out on anything.

I also added the medibuntu software repository so could get Google earth and some restricted media codecs.

That's all for now, goodbye.

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