Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on Sempron 2400

I really couldn’t resist not to try the recently released Ubuntu version.  I so cleared an almost forgotten 20GB partition on my desktop computer (Sempron 2400) and I started installing Ubuntu 9.04.

Ubuntu, Kubuntu or …

I’m an eternal undecided between Gnome or KDE (and XFCE isn’t bad too) but, since I’m using EEEBuntu on the EEEPC, I got more used to Gnome and this leaded me into installing Ubuntu.

Downloading 

I downloaded the ISO image of Ubuntu CD from the torrent download page. I usually prefer downloading big files using TorrentFlux (on my PIII 550 server). I so started the download in the evening of the 23rd and went to bed. The next morning the download was completed.

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Installing Calibre on EEEBuntu

I use often my EEEPC as E-Book reader especially when I travel by train. The program I use (FBReader) works fine and, in border-less mode with the page tilted of 90°, makes the EEPC an almost optimal E-Book reader. But since I’m looking for some extra features I decided to install Calibre.

Calibre is literally a all-in-one e-book software with many features from the library manager to external readers synchronization. I’m mainly interested in two features: Calibre library management and the RSS feed reader.

Installation

I simply executed Calibre installation command (all in the same line):

sudo python -c “import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen(

      ‘http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/

      download_linux_binary_installer’).read(); main()”

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Happy Easter!

Just a simple but sincere Happy Easter to everybody!