Bogdan Radulescu of Oralndo, Florida is the creator of Nimble X. I thought this version of Linux was a neat idea, but in my eagerness to try new things, I didn’t read the fine print: that the do-it-yourself boot CD I wanted to make and burn to CD was from a 2007 version (kernel 2.6.16). My laptop was made in 2009, and thus every boot option I chose on the boot CD led to a kernel panic.
Then I tried it on a slightly older dual-core PC where Linux is already working. Rebooting into the CD resulted in a proper start, and I had a full X display with KDE and its attendant programs. I wanted to finish the blog in that environment, however, Nimble 2007 lacked a ‘net connection, and an app to add an ethernet connection was hard to find. However, there was plenty of ways I could have added a ppp connection or a wireless one, and I lack a dialup and wireless.
Pretty good environment to do some local work, so long as lacking internet was not an issue. This time, it was an issue.
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