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LarsonsWorld | Ubuntu 8.04 on Dell Inspiron 6000

I am now running Ubuntu 8.04.
Unlike 7.10 and 7.04, the upgrade worked fine and I haven't had to do a fresh install
I am having no problems with suspend.
As with 7.10, I remove Tracker Search Tool, as I don't use it, because of the reported Load_Cycle_Count and I found after removing it my increase in counts dropped significalty.

General Hardware Specifications:

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Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Pentium M Processor, 1.7 GHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
15.4" WUXGA LCD Panel	Works	No special procedure required during installation and wide screen works fine.
Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 Graphics (mobile 915)	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 2DIMMs	Works	No special procedure required during installation
100 GB Hitachi Ultra ATA Hard Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Integrated Network Card	Works	No special procedure required during installation
CD/DVD R/RW	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)	Works	No special procedure required during installation
6 & 9 Cell Lithium Ion Batterys	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Alps Touchpad	Works	No special procedure required during installation.

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.20-16-generic

Installation Instructions:
Being a newbie to the Linux world, I will not even attempt to give instructions or help.
For me, the Ubuntu 6.10 distribution just overall worked from the install.
There is an incredible amount of useful information on the Ubuntu Forums, which I have used extesively to teach myself.
I know lots of people have problems with wireless - Mine works, but to be honest, what exactly I did I'm not really sure. lol

~ Update ~
I have updated to 7.04. Originally I did an update, but after playing with my system I broke something and did a fresh install.
The main difference between 6.10 and 7.04 for me was the ease of wireless.
With 7.04 it worked from the get-go.

Why did I go with Ubuntu:
While trying to create a dual boot system, I toasted my XP install and the computer wouldn't boot into anything.
Ubuntu was the only iso I had burned at the time, so I decided, what the hell, lets see what happens.
The rest is history. ;)

Things that worked from the get-go:

Suspend and Hibernate
USB
Function Keys (which left me dumbstuck!)
Firewire
DVD R/RW
Sound

Things I had to work on:

Media Keys - Most worked from the start, a few I had to go into "Keyboard Shortcuts" and reconfigure

Things that I haven't tried, so who knows if they work

Bluetooth - I don't have Bluetooth.
Modem - it's recongnized
Card Reader - who knows - I don't have a card to try, but after reading other reviews I would say you are out of luck

Other stuff:

I have sent a SASE to System76 for this sticker and removed the all windows stickers

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