Linux FINALLY!

I’ve been longing for a change… Windows with all their hype(not!) on Vista was making me shudder. So I went to our first user group meeting last night and obtained Ubuntu from Charl (version 6.06, dapper).

Got back home plugged in a spare hard drive and installed Ubuntu. Man, I’ll tell you, its like riding a bicycle! I used to be a systems administrator for Linux servers back in the day of Redhat 7.1 & 8.0 and thought I’d be pretty much in the dark, but it all came back to me in a FLASH!

So I rolled my dual-boot installation. Was very quick!

I had issues connecting to secure sites (sites running on https://) on Firefox. I figured it was prolly a Firefox issue so I downloaded my FAVORITE Flock. Nope, same old story…

Then I remembered the Forums. Forums are your FRIEND. So I googled over to the Ubuntu forums and searched for an answer. Lo and behold, five minutes later and its sorted!

Problem is that ipv6 causes shit. So I had to disable it as follows:

Opened a terminal.

cd /etc/modprobe.d

sudo chmod 666 aliases (aliases is a read-only file so I had to change the permissions to edit the damn file)

vi aliases

Changed the line that reads:

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

to

alias net-pf-10 off ipv6

Rebooted the system.

To test if ipv6 is still running I typed the following command:

ip a | grep inet6

If the command returns a result ipv6 is still running. If not, problem solved!

Damn! It feels GOOOOD to be back! I must say, it looks a damn side different to what I was used to back in the days. The okes have been busy… Well done! Kudus to the Ubuntu guys!

PS: This is my first blog post using my favorite Flock on Ubuntu!

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9 Comments to "Linux FINALLY!"

• RafiQ said: On 02/16/2007 at 9:47 am

  WElcome back stii!

• Neville Newey said: On 02/17/2007 at 7:13 pm

  Hey Stii

  Well done, Linux makes an excellent desktop os these days and especially Ubuntu. Were it not for having to deal with clients that insist on Windows I would have banned it on my own machines a long time ago. I also use Ubuntu as a development server.

  Regards

• Ian said: On 02/18/2007 at 9:11 pm

  Welcome! Been running Kubuntu Edgy a while now, and still feel as excited as when I first installed it

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 02/20/2007 at 10:35 am

  Glad to hear you’re back on track. Windows isn’t exactly what I would call an operating system. I would call it a problemating system maybe.

  Anyway, what about some screenshots?

• riaan said: On 02/22/2007 at 7:31 pm

  Ubuntu Rocks!!! Well done for making the switch!
  I use Gentoo Linux (gentoo.org) on all my servers, even my desktop, here are some screen shots, of me and my bros. laptops.

  http://www.3am.co.za/modules.php?set_albumName=album28&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php
  Ciao/Riaan

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