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Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on Sempron 2400

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

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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