water cooler :: Ubuntu



Yesterday I down loaded the live cd version of Kubuntu.  I tried it on a couple of different computers.  I had trouble finding a video driver that would work on one of the computers (Dell gx150).  The video driver was not on the list, but I did finnally find a driver that would sort of work.  The other machine was a laptop with wireless.  The video was OK, but I had some problems with setting up the wireless to work.  However I did get it working after trying for a while.  

Kubuntu seems similar to my SuSe distro.  I suppose that is because they both use the KDE desktop.  I guess I am spoiled, but it was much slower than DSL for the things that I normally do.  It does have a lot of features and software built in.  I think with a little more work it will be a good free alternative to some of the distros that cost money.

For now I will stick to DSL and keep SuSe for the more complex things since it is already paid for. :D
I've been using Ubuntu for the last few weeks.  I must say that I like it quite a bit.  I haven't had very many problems at all. Any problems I did have were very simple to correct.

All in all, I'd say this a great distro.  Very easy to use for sure.  This is the first distro I've used (other than DSL) that felt good the moment I booted into it (if that makes sense).

I'll be using Ubuntu on my main system for a while along with DSL and DSL on the laptop it saved from death.
I've been using Ubuntu for AMD64 on a laptop for a couple of weeks, and it's as good a 64 bit Debian-based distro as there is out there right now. I tried the 64 bit Mandriva distro as well, and I like Ubuntu better at this point because of the auto update features. I love DSL because it is really, really fast and light enough to use on some old computers I've been playing with. For almost everything I need in computing I've been able to get some Linux distro to do the work, including professional level video editing. There are still some weaknesses, like WiFi, but even that is coming along.
I've used Ubuntu since the first preview release of Warty.  For me Ubuntu was the distro that finally convinced me to eliminate Windows.    On my desktop system it runs very well.  I have my music, World of WarCraft, all the apps I could possibly want, etc.  I've had less issues with it than I did under Windows.  

On my old laptop, however, Ubuntu doesn't work.  I tried it.  It installed.  But with 40mb RAM on an old laptop it wasn't useable.  DSL has worked very well on the laptop (new frugal install).  After using DSL on the laptop I've also started to experiment with Fluxbox on my Ubuntu machine.
I just tried the liveCD of 5.04, and I must say that I was disappointed.  After taking probably three times as long as DSL to start (on a 2GHz machine), there didn't seem all that much of interest on there, nothing more than I fit on a 185MB myDSL disk, and my wireless network wasn't recognised.  But the real perplexing thing was that it didn't give me access to my harddrives!  There was absolutely nothing under /mnt, and I couldn't see any mounting system anywhere.  And this is with plain old FAT32!

When I get a new hardrive (hopefully shortly), though, I do intend trying out a full install.  I haven't had a full install of a "proper" linux desktop in years, so I intend really exploring just how close I can get to living an MS-free existence... will need to see if some things run under WINE though, as there are a few definite things, like FlashMX2004, that I need, which don't have native replacements or ports.
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