{"id":359,"date":"2005-02-15T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2005-02-15T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T04:47:30","slug":"going-hoary-on-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/15\/going-hoary-on-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Hoary on the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downloading hoary-install-i386.iso and will soon be Ubuntu on my desktop machine. There is no doubt that my laptop will shortly follow (shipping a kernel with benh’s sleep patch for my albook will make me an instant-switch).<\/p>\n

The main thing I want to make sure of is that they build their kernels with sane enough options for XFS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downloading hoary-install-i386.iso and will soon be Ubuntu on my desktop machine. There is no doubt that my laptop will shortly follow (shipping a kernel with benh’s sleep patch for my albook will make me an instant-switch). The main thing I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/29\/the-next-version-of-ubuntu\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":0},"title":"the next version of ubuntu","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-01-29","format":false,"excerpt":"the preview live CD is out. got the ppc and x86 ones and tried it on my laptop and desktop respectively. Went pretty well. It did video mirroring (and not xinerama) on my desktop, which is annoying, but nobody else does it right either. the pcmcia wireless card worked out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/26\/changing-to-ubuntu\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":1},"title":"Changing to Ubuntu","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-04-26","format":false,"excerpt":"The 13GB waste of space that was the unused MacOS X partition is gone. So is the very much hacked Debian Unstable (was living up to its name too much) partition. Currently am installing Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog on my PowerBook. 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We were on a treetop walk - although this fern isn't anywhere near the top of the trees. For some reason I like ferns. Hope you like.","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}