I just took delivery of a strip of six Powered By Ubuntu stickers from the nice people at Linux Emporium.

The photo doesn't really do them justice – they're so shiny the flash really glares. I've put one with the little cluster of stickers that were already on the laptop (beside the Designed for Microsoft Windows XP tag) and one on the case so people can see it when I'm working and they're sat opposite me. If you'd like some, here's the URL.

I've been a little more active on the Ubuntu side this week. Only a little though. I started off by learning how to roll my own kernel the Debian way. I tried the Ubuntu way and although it built the kernel, the packaging into .deb failed. Then I've been tweaking the kernel config, installing, rebooting and checking things like dmesg to see if the various little niggles I've been experiencing are still present. So far, nothing has changed. But eventually I'll hit upon the right combination, I'm sure, and then I can update the tickets so people more experienced than me can deal with the problem properly.