Flirting With A Maverick Meerkat

Unlike a year and a half ago, this ver­sion of Ubuntu (10.10) rec­og­nized my laptop’s wire­less card right off. Might have been because it is a new lap­top, but there were a lot of advances in the soft­ware too. The Soft­ware Cen­ter is great, tak­ing out almost all the geek­i­ness needed to load pro­grams under Linux and it came pre­loaded with most any­thing any­one would need. My big prob­lem was the stuff required to do geo­caching was sparse and what of it that was avail­able, didn’t work as well as GSAK and it required a healthy dose of that pre­vi­ously men­tioned geekiness.