Ubuntu Linux

RE*AC*TOR

anyone tried this distro yet? seems somewhat interesting...

aidan_walsh

Hmm... Taking a look at their "About" page doesn't inspire...

Ubuntu doesn't have a pretty graphical installer, it has a FAST and EASY installer.

Didn't really look very intuitive from what I've seen of the screen shots, but I could be wrong.

All this malarkey about harmony etc. reads like a lot of marketing BS to me... But I'm downloading anyway, see what its like...

Dingatron

Signed up for the cd's but haven't got them yet. Have you tried it yet and if so what do you think of it?

RE*AC*TOR

No haven't tried it yet, I've yet to make the full jump to Linux, and I don't really wanna start messing around with my mbr again. Last distro I "tried" was Yoper, which I found quite nice. I'd put myself in the category of someoen who has a decent amount of computer knowledge without wanting to put in the effort to learn the inner-working of linux. Hence I can do commandline stuff etc if I have to, but I'd prefer not to have to bother.

quozl

doodle_sketch wrote:

All this malarkey about harmony etc. reads like a lot of marketing BS to me... But I'm downloading anyway, see what its like...

It does alright, but it's funded by the original owner of Thawte, a now very rich man with a history of philantropy. So I'd be more inclined to believe it from him than most.

Fenster

I've given it a try. If you were in Galway I'd burn you a copy.

I found it a very nice distro. The installer is thourough, but a wee bit bare bones. As a lot of other people said, newbies might get stuck on partitioning, but if you've done it before, its a whizz. It automatically patches (via apt) before it boots up for the first time, although I let it patch in my case.

It boots to a Gnome 2.8 desktop, although I recall that you could grab KDE and Fluxbox from the Ubuntu repositories. You can add Debian proper ones to apt if you want.

All told, I found it great. You get a good selection of tools, apt (with Synaptic), Firefox 1.0, etc. It also reads NTFS partitions from the word go, which is handy.

The only reason that I didn't use it for my laptop was that I really didn't want to be getting to grips with a new distro while setting it up.

logistic

heres are some more comments http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=189176&highlight=ubuntu

Aslo kde isnt available at present but they state that there will be more to come in due course.

tck

logistic wrote:

heres are some more comments http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=189176&highlight=ubuntu

Aslo kde isnt available at present but they state that there will be more to come in due course.

um.. apt-get install kde (about 145 mb)

they have some interesting developments for kde in the future

Enygma

I installed it whilst waiting for a new hard drive to arrive.
I found Gnome 2.8 far better than 2.6 but that wouldn't be too hard to be honest. They've gone for a minimal approach which I like, instead of getting 5 different apps that do the same thing you get one so you're not wasting space with apps your not going to use.

It's got a lovely look and feel out of the box and there are some great themes available on http://art.gnome.org
I also installed some gdesklets (http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org) and found it to be much less hassle than Karamba. I'm a long time KDE user too so this isn't coming from a Gnome fanboy.

The installer was a breeze, and synaptic is great for upgrading and installing new apps.

You get the latest of everything which is nice.

It also picked up my iPod straight away and even loaded up gThumbs when I plugged in my camera. I've had trouble with those two in Fedora Core and Red Hat 9.

I'm probably going to install Gentoo when the new hard disk arrives cause I think it's a great idea and really want to give it a go. If that doesn't work out or I decide I don't like it I'll definetely be installing this again. It was one of the best experiences I've had with Linux in the last few years.

nadir

There is a tread on the gentoo forums that implies RMS supports it.
so if thats true it must be good
well its a snapshot of sarge with a load of patches and scripts, looks cool.

SantaHoe

Ubuntu Linux

It's got a funny name
I'm sold!