AntonOlsen

The latest version of Ubuntu was released last month and I finally took the time tonight to install it on my tablet.  I’d tried an upgrade from Hardy but had little luck with that.  To be fair I don’t think it was so much a problem with the upgrade process as it was with my old and crufty tablet.  It had been dist-upgraded all the way from Dapper and I think I’d lost some of the necessary dummy packages along the way.

So far my only problem is with the pen input.  This doesn’t surprise me as it uses the wacom driver on a serial port and attempting to detect it can cause problems.  I’ll poke around to see if there is a gui way to set that yet, but I suspect I’ll have to edit the xorg.conf to make it work.

The wireless worked first try once I entered the correct WEP key.  We’ll see how it does at work Monday with a WPA2 network.  The new system tray icon for networks is very cool and easy to use.

I’ll be sure to post more in the next week when I get a full idea of what has changed and if I like it or not.