gamechampionx
November 24th, 2008, 06:23 AM
I've used Ubuntu in the past, back in the 5.10 days. I've recently gotten around to using it again, in this case, 8.04. I've got a few points that I've come up with in my recent usage that I'd like to share.
The Good
1. As always, I got my cd free in the mail which is amazing.
2. Online forums have provided tons of help and even gone beyond that to provide information to feed my Ubuntu-related curiosities.
3. Great package management framework - I prefer apt-get to yum and I've had great experiences with it overall, Synaptic is nice as well. Good selection of games, great development tools (java6, g++, etc)
4. Universe and multiverse repos were automagically included, which I don't believe was the case last time.
5. Happy with overall package availability.
The Bad
1. This is fairly minor, but I was a little surprised that I had to add the KDE repos myself.
2. More freezing and system resource usage than I remember in previous versions. This is merely my experience, maybe be hardware related, and I've been known to make things explode a lot.
3. I've had some serious issues with Synaptic in KDE, particularly freezing-related though it's probably somehow my own fault.
Overally, I consider Ubuntu 8.04 a success but I am still keeping an open mind toward which distros I choose to use, especially considering system stability.
The Good
1. As always, I got my cd free in the mail which is amazing.
2. Online forums have provided tons of help and even gone beyond that to provide information to feed my Ubuntu-related curiosities.
3. Great package management framework - I prefer apt-get to yum and I've had great experiences with it overall, Synaptic is nice as well. Good selection of games, great development tools (java6, g++, etc)
4. Universe and multiverse repos were automagically included, which I don't believe was the case last time.
5. Happy with overall package availability.
The Bad
1. This is fairly minor, but I was a little surprised that I had to add the KDE repos myself.
2. More freezing and system resource usage than I remember in previous versions. This is merely my experience, maybe be hardware related, and I've been known to make things explode a lot.
3. I've had some serious issues with Synaptic in KDE, particularly freezing-related though it's probably somehow my own fault.
Overally, I consider Ubuntu 8.04 a success but I am still keeping an open mind toward which distros I choose to use, especially considering system stability.