14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
7:14 a.m.
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:37:32PM +0100, Kymon MacDaire wrote:
i tried ubuntu (warty warthog), and got pleasantly
surprised by the ease
of installation.
Serge already talked about this one, haven't tried myself just
yet. Your description ensures that I'll give it a run whenever
I'll have a machine to play with :-)
no problem with the usb mouse (unlike debian woody),
Woody's not known to work with fancy new stuff too well, or recognize
this stuff automatically.
nor with the
network device (unlike debian sarge which got caught in a loop,
detecting my network device over and over again)
Quite surprising, I've done many Sarge installs and never had that
particular problem (neither on any other distro).
and no problem either
with the dvi connection of the lcd monitor (unlike fedora core 3 which
suddenly went black during install or even knoppix, which only worked in
framebuffer mode).
That might be less surprising, I've read about such problems all
over the place. Never had the hardware to test this though.
as ubuntu is based on debian, i really wonder why it
didn't have the same problems during install, maybe because of different
versions of the installer.
Indeed, they do use a different hardware detection mechanism (IIRC
kudzu from RedHat).
if you have a slow internet access, the over 100 MB of
updates it
downloads after installation can be painful though.
<mode=evil>
You mean there's still people with analog or ISDN dialups?
</mode>
Most other operating systems have the same problems, whether it's
called packages, updates, service releases, patches, security updates,
whatever.
unlike suse 9.1, it
didn't automatically mount the windows partitions that were on the same
hd, but ubuntu did recognize my usb stick automatically, something suse
failed at.
Nice for the stick, but I'd really not want Windows partitions being
mounted automatically - that's for the sysadmin to decide IMHO.
from my personal experience, ubuntu has been the
easiest distro to
install i tried yet. if others had similar positive experiences with
ubuntu, i guess it could be added to the list of recommended distros for
linux newbies.
I know one guy who tried it on PPC (Apple Powerbook), but who had
some problems getting X running properly. Not sure whether it was
because of the installation media or a real bug with Ubuntu.
Greetings, Eric