TestDummy!
April 23rd, 2005, 01:01 AM
I don't really know how to say this, but this new release of Ubuntu is very well done. I am actually starting to use it once a day or more (I'm still doing a XP/Ubuntu dual-boot, which actually works out alright) You see, this is what I mean when I say it's well done. I've used many distrbutions before, each one had one nice thing I liked about it, but each one had a few letdowns too.
Like SuSE 9.1, which I used to use. It was okay, things I wanted to get working worked, like Internet and what not, but I hated, absoultely hated getting stuck with dependancy problems each time I tried to install something. For comparison, I wanted to install XChat onto SuSE. Three and a half hours later, after going to numerous sites hunting down RPM's and trying to install them right so it doesn't result in more chaos, I'm lucky if I get a slightly working XChat. With Ubuntu, it's already there, and if it wasn't, is only one short command at a terminal away. Very nice. :)
I was using Kanotix for a while too. It was nice, when it actually decided to work. But it had too many usability issues, too many of them for me. It'd often not even get to booting, and would freeze up often. I was on their IRC channel once and told them that it was saying I had <84MB of RAM, when I really had 128MB. (This is my laptop I'm reffering to, main box has 512) . He told me to install more RAM and didn't really choose to help much more past that. I decided that I didn't really want to use that anymore after that little incident. [-X
Now, onto Ubuntu. Warty worked for me, and I did like it, but the troubles with my modem kinda kept me at bay. I just tried out Hoary recently and wow.... everything works. It noticed my cable modem on install and automatically configured it. Everything else went smoothly too. Well, the first install was a tad odd because it said I was using a non-Ubuntu CD when I was using the same one that I installed it with. I decided to wipe the drive and try again, worked then. Once it was installed, I tried it out, everything worked wonderfully. I noticed on first boot, it even waited for the modem until it was ready instead of just skipping over it. Nice. :grin:
Warty was pretty good, but Hoary is just excellent. I remember saying in February when first trying out Warty that I thought some problems should be smoothed out. Well, you sure did just that with this. I think I've found a Linux distro I'll be using for quite a while. I'm happy with it.
Nice job :smile:
Like SuSE 9.1, which I used to use. It was okay, things I wanted to get working worked, like Internet and what not, but I hated, absoultely hated getting stuck with dependancy problems each time I tried to install something. For comparison, I wanted to install XChat onto SuSE. Three and a half hours later, after going to numerous sites hunting down RPM's and trying to install them right so it doesn't result in more chaos, I'm lucky if I get a slightly working XChat. With Ubuntu, it's already there, and if it wasn't, is only one short command at a terminal away. Very nice. :)
I was using Kanotix for a while too. It was nice, when it actually decided to work. But it had too many usability issues, too many of them for me. It'd often not even get to booting, and would freeze up often. I was on their IRC channel once and told them that it was saying I had <84MB of RAM, when I really had 128MB. (This is my laptop I'm reffering to, main box has 512) . He told me to install more RAM and didn't really choose to help much more past that. I decided that I didn't really want to use that anymore after that little incident. [-X
Now, onto Ubuntu. Warty worked for me, and I did like it, but the troubles with my modem kinda kept me at bay. I just tried out Hoary recently and wow.... everything works. It noticed my cable modem on install and automatically configured it. Everything else went smoothly too. Well, the first install was a tad odd because it said I was using a non-Ubuntu CD when I was using the same one that I installed it with. I decided to wipe the drive and try again, worked then. Once it was installed, I tried it out, everything worked wonderfully. I noticed on first boot, it even waited for the modem until it was ready instead of just skipping over it. Nice. :grin:
Warty was pretty good, but Hoary is just excellent. I remember saying in February when first trying out Warty that I thought some problems should be smoothed out. Well, you sure did just that with this. I think I've found a Linux distro I'll be using for quite a while. I'm happy with it.
Nice job :smile: