Now that Ubuntu 10.10 is out I am slowly upgrading my computers one by one. Today it was time to perform the upgrade on my newest (in terms of technology) and most bad ass computer, the Acer Aspire 5745G Laptop. I have previously written about running Ubuntu 10.04 on it, which was the first Linux OS I have installed. Already with Ubuntu 10.04 everything was working and only the Ethernet interface required manual installation of driver. Installing Ubuntu 10.10 was a simple matter of performing the upgrade from within the package manager.
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Ubuntu Linux on the Acer Aspire 5745G Laptop
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This article is about running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 on the Acer Aspire 5745G. If you are interested in running Ubuntu 10.10 check this article instead. |
It was time for me to get a new computer and this time I was going for laptop with a fast CPU and sufficient Nvidia graphics that is suitable for video processing and high bandwidth software defined radios. Didn’t want ATI graphics because I have bad experience with ATI and Linux. Nvidia on the other hand has been working very well for me on Linux.
I thought of getting a new Macbook Pro 15″ with and Intel i7 dual core processor, but I ended with the Acer Aspire 5745G-724G50Mn with an i7 quad-core, 4GB RAM and a Geforce GT330M with 1 GB VRAM. The rest of this article describes my first experiences with installing and running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64 bit on this computer side by side with the pre-installed Windows 7.