Part 3 of this series: I give up.
The latest release of Ubuntu did not install correctly on my older Toshiba notebook computer. The screen gets jumbled up.
Through Ubuntu's community support, someone suggested I press Ctrl+Alt+Backsapce to reboot the GUI. About half the screen cleared up: on the upper half, I could see what probably was the bottom half of Gutsy Gibbon; the lower half was still gibberish.
(As a point of reference, a couple of years I upgraded the notebook computer's operating system from Windows 98SE to Windows 2000 SP4. That process took a long time, because I had to hunt down device drivers. Fortunately, Toshiba does a good job of archiving all of its drivers, even for operating systems obsoleted by Microsoft.)
At that point, I left the project alone. Because I was only installed the "Live" CD, it had no negative effects on the existing operating system. (Installing a Live CD means that the computer boots from the CD, instead of the hard drive.)
Yesterday, however, I read some positive comments on Fedora 8, the competitor to Ubuntu. I wondered if it might work better.
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