Ubuntu 6.06 LTS released

Explosive_Cornflake

Re: Jizzlord
Ubuntu is one of the fastest distros to install, it's just a pity it comes with f all.
Re: Blacknight,
I guess I havent, but under KDE in (k)ubuntu I'm not sure how to even change keyboard settings. I was using SUSE before this, and yast handled all that for me.

Khannie

Jizzlord: The install cd is a livecd also. You should know straight away if it'll work.

JIZZLORD

i have yet to download it as i'm back on dial up for the summer, but i always got stuck half way through the install, have they got a graphical install yet, fedora was a joy to install

Khannie

Yeah, it's a livecd, and you have a full OS at your disposal while it installs. Lovely stuff really.

Steveire

The only advantage I thought the fedora install had over the ubuntu one was choosing packages to install at install time. If I remember right, it was a graphical yum. 5 cds though, c'mon. I reckon it's at least possible for Ubuntu to offer to check repositories (incl. Universe and Multiverse) at install time and do it all at once without user input

UbuntuniX

As a linux reviewer I gotta say Ubuntu 6.06 is the best distro in years

pickarooney

I found the new install CD to be awful, particularly discouraging for anyone with little experience.

- the default resolution is an unusable 640X420 or whatever, making it next to impossible to read anything that opens or to navigate around the screen. The 'change resolution' tool has no other options than this basic display, and you have to run a text-based config utility to get any other screen res.

- no mp3, divx, rm support. They're easily downloadable, but I've no internet connection at home, so it's a big pile of useless for me.

- ADSL modems - zero support from what I can make out, and I've just spent several hours unsuccesfully trying to get connected from a friend's house, with nothing to show for it but meaningless errors. The included network tools are of no help to newbies or who hasn't set up an ADSL connection before.

- it's a darker brown, but it's still brown!

- the setup asks you for a language and location, only offering the option 'other' if you're in a non-English speaking country and want an English OS. The time zones available are restricted to US ones. This was working in previous versions.

- the help files on setting up an internet connection are a series of hyperlinks to the ubuntu wiki... if you can read this, you don't need to

- the ubuntu forums are permanently down it seems, though that's hardly the CD's fault

Karoma

Fresh install over a different distro.,on my craptop:
- Straight-foward install.
- Configuration: Setting up timezone, etc. was a bit messed up - but it worked, and noted English(Ireland) OK.
- WLAN (CISCO aironet) set up in seconds.
- Had to apt-get a load of stuff (I should have expected it, tbh. Not a major issue and probably a good thing for the majority of installations.)
- I got rid of GNOME (It was too slow, and ugly and ...GNOME.) and put XFCE 4.4 on it. (I tried doing it the long, proper way. I gave up when the installers failed and just sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop - it installed quickly.)
Now, works a charm.

Zombrex

Khannie wrote:

Things get worse. When I connect up my PSP now (which should just appear as a memory stick to the computer), it launches "rhythmbox", which falls all over the place trying to make the PSP into an MP3 player. I close it, and it proceeds to eat 100% of a cpu (doing nothing). I try to remove it with synaptic and it tells me that I'll have to remove "ubuntu-desktop" if I wish to do so.

Yeah I must say I've tried Ubuntu 5 and 6 and I'm not a fan.

I encountered the remove ubuntu-desktop problem a few times, also I find the help and wiki's to be pretty crap. For some reason Ubuntu 6 is also only assigning IPv6 to my network card. I've been quickly deactivating and reactivating my card after it boots. i could figure this out I'm sure, but not sure I could be asked.

Ubuntu looks like a desktop for people who want to install Linux and then forget about it. I like playing around with my distrubution until I get it set up nice the way i like it.

Think I'm going back to Gentoo this weekend

Cormic

Wicknight wrote:

Yeah I must say I've tried Ubuntu 5 and 6 and I'm not a fan.

[snip]

Think I'm going back to Gentoo this weekend

This is one of the reasons I love Linux. If you don't like one variety you can try another.

Zombrex

Cormic wrote:

This is one of the reasons I love Linux. If you don't like one variety you can try another.

Very true

I would love to be able to say "ah feck sick of my Microsoft Windows install fecking up, think I'm going to try IBMs Windows instead" ... alas

Mach

I only have one problem with Dapper, which I had in Hoary but not in Breezy.Ita proble with X11, ever now an again the screen goses white on my laptop, and restart x with ctrl-alt backspace/f7.It works fine when I use an extrnal monitor.

Khannie

pickarooney wrote:

- no mp3, divx, rm support. They're easily downloadable, but I've no internet connection at home, so it's a big pile of useless for me.

lol.

Do any free distros come with mp3 support built in?

Personally, I consider linux pretty crippled without an internet connection. It's a very network oriented OS IMO.

pickarooney

Not sure how many distros do, but Mandriva definitely has MP3 support and I'm pretty sure SUSE has. What exactly is the fuzzy legal issue with providing mp3 playback in repositories but not on the install CDs?

Explosive_Cornflake

The fraunhofner codec is copyrighted. LAME is an open source version of it, but it is for educational purposes only Well, that's what i gather. It's a licence issue anyway.
For suse you need the Non OSS dvd version, at least anyway

WizZard

One word: Wow.

I finally took the plunge last night and tried Ubuntu on my laptop (I usually run Gentoo but had to do a disk wipe last week) - I've never seen such seamless install and pre-configuring on any Linux distro that I've tried.

Even down to the correct resolution being chosen for my widescreen laptop (1280x800). I am very impressed with it. I feel that Linux is getting closer to being a mainstream OS now.
Sounds worked (from the beginning), laptops function keys worked, hibernation worked, everything worked on first try.
The only problem for me is that the wireless support during/after install is WEP only - I use WPA2 at home. Although when I went to set up WPA2 for the wireless network it was dead simple (I did manually configure it using wpa_supplicant first, as I'm used to, but then discovered gnome-network-manager which has support for WPA).
All in all I am very impressed.

Now I have to get used to the Debian package manager again - the last time I used Debian was at least 4 years ago

I'm completely amazed at the slickness of Ubuntu and it's a credit to the developers and team that it has come this far.

Anyway, enough raving.

generalmiaow

Ubuntu is great for computers old and new. Not to mention that it can run as gaeilge.

Blowfish

Khannie wrote:

Do any free distros come with mp3 support built in?

There is now, Freespire was released a few days ago. I haven't tried it, but it seems to be more aimed at the 'normal' user rather than power users, but it looks like it would make a good distro for a laptop or media centre