Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on Avertec 1020

I've just installed Intrepid on may Avertec 1020. So I don't have a lot of experience with it yet, but here are some things that I've noted.

Ubuntu is pretty easy to install. I'm not a Ubuntu fanatic, but I quite like it. (I use Fedora on my main desktop.)

Intrepid knows how to "sleep" on may 1020. I've rarely tried it with other versions of Linux, but it has not worked when I have.

When booting Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS), the system would hang for two minutes. I think that it has to do with TSC problems with the notebook. I don't know if this is a BIOS bug (we know that there are a few!) or a Hardy bug, but it is nice to not hit it.

(Hardy has an important advantage over Intrepid: Hardy has a promise of longer term support (LTS).)

Intrepid drives the display properly. So did Hardy. But Gutsy (Unbuntu 7.04) did not.

Intrepid has a utility to take a bootable CD and create a bootable USB from it. I used this to create an Intrepid live USB flash memory. I built this on another computer and used the resulting USB stick on my Avertec 1020. Worked well.

Wireless seems to work but it does not survive sleep. I seem to remember that this is a Ralink wireless driver bug.

 

That rings a bell here as well. There was a thread on the old Averatac board about the Ralink and a fix was posted but we never got it to work nor did anyone else as far as we know.