Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/10/26/can-ubuntu-linux-save-my-zombie-laptop/

OK, I’ve decided to try my boot USB stick with a bigger Linux, but which one? This online test zegenie Studios Linux Distribution Chooser recommended that I use Ubuntu, and it does seem like a good choice, but the download is 600 MB big. I only have an internet contract that allows me 1GB web surfing per month – and so 600 MB would be a huge chunk of that.

I hate the way companies impose these stupid small limits on internet use. Is it significantly more expensive for a company to provide 10 GB of service than 1 GB, or is it just a scheme to make money from us powerless idiots who have to use the service? I know which I suspect.

Anyway, as my ancient Viao laptop doesn’t even have Wifi I’m going to have to hop on my girlfriend’s computer to download the file. Right now though she’s working on important things – read FarmVille – and so it’ll be a while before I can do my Doctor Frankenstein impression, jump on top of the laptop, look up to the imaginary film camera in the sky and scream… “Live! Live! Live!”

Or make the boot USB and switch on the computer – not as dramatic but probably more accurate.

I’m reusing the 3d image of a laptop with skull and cross bones on the screen being attacked by files, it seemed to fit and I like it very much. I made the illustration with the Blender 3D suite, and I was wondering if that will run on the new Linux laptop, assuming I get it working. It appears that the Blender 3d visuals creator will run no problem on Ubuntu, so the plan is on go ahead. That 600 MB is taking a long time to download though.