…It’s more like my own failures, not the distro in particular ><
Anyway, here’s a quick recap: I’d installed Debian 3.1 ’sarge’ on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. It left me with a working Linux system but no GUI installed. I tried (unsuccessfully) to use tasksel to install the relevant packages for a desktop environment, but [...]
Ubuntu has been hanging/locking up lately. It reports CPU usage as 100% and then refuses to respond after that. It is also not task-specific; it has happened while using Firefox, playing a game, and using Dia to draw a diagram. Other users have commented on this problem and offered solutions on the Ubuntu support forums.
Edit: [...]
While installing packages, I looked at the output in the terminal and, worried by some lines of text, highlighted them with the mouse and wanted to copy and paste them in the text editor. So I pressed Ctrl-C and the process terminated. I re-installed the packages.
