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govroam wifi settings Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on ma 11 juni 2018 in desktop • Tagged with ubuntu

Today I tried to connect my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 to the govroam wifi network (equivalent to the eduroam thing I guess?).

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The default settings supplied by Ubuntu did not work and I could not find any official documentation specific for Ubuntu.

These are the settings that worked for …


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Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro tweaks

Posted on ma 11 juni 2018 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu, hardware

Last weekend I wiped my Macbook Pro 15″ late 2013 and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. The install was painless, but there were some tiny bits and pieces missing as to hardware settings and drivers.

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I was able to fix most issues searching the web, but I thought I …


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Ubuntu 16.04 on MacBook Pro 11,1 success story

Posted on do 17 augustus 2017 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu

Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work.

As my wife moved to …


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Linux Mint on my MacBook not the success I hoped it to be

Posted on wo 24 december 2014 in desktop • Tagged with ubuntu, apple

After some troubles with my OS X install on my Retina Macbook, I thought it would be a good time to revisit Linux on the Desktop. Although I have desktop Linuxes running all the time, the last time I ran Linux as a desktop native on hardware was years ago …


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