jlc Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Ubuntu Linux If you like Gnome, you will love Ubuntu. Ubuntu is made up of several Gnome/Debian Developers and the release follow Gnome releases, so when Gnome 2.10 or 3 comes out, you can expect to see the next release of Ubuntu. As I stated, Ubuntu is made up of Debian Developers, so "apt-get" and "dpkg" are used for package management. Every 6 months, Ubuntu pulls from sid (Debian unstable), takes a snapshot and works out the bugs, along with the latest release of Gnome. If you want kde, it is there, but lets face it, there will be more lovin to Gnome! Just to give you an idea of how many packages are available: ~ $ apt-cache stats Total Package Names : 17670 (707k) Normal Packages: 13583 Pure Virtual Packages: 217 Single Virtual Packages: 943 Mixed Virtual Packages: 153 Missing: 2774 Total Distinct Versions: 13741 (660k) Total Dependencies: 88636 (2482k) Total Ver/File relations: 14547 (233k) Total Provides Mappings: 2485 (49.7k) Total Globbed Strings: 99 (1188) Total Dependency Version space: 390k Total Slack space: 105k Total Space Accounted for: 4237k As you can see, your not going to find a Distro with more available software and easy installation of that software than the great "apt-get". The Install is pretty straight forward, the only thing that might hang up noobies is the partioning of the harddirve. If you have nothing else on the box, you can let it auto partion your drive. Ext2/3, jfs, xfs and reiser3 are available. LVM and Raid are also avaiable. My desktop at home uses LVM w/ ext3 and xfs partions. I've had it detect my hardware on various box's very well. Why would I recommend using Ubuntu over Mandrake, well I'm just not a big fan of rpms or mandrake (don't shoot) ;) Ubuntu has some great developers, Gnome 2.8 with udev/hal/dbus is just a beautiful sight on the desktop (pluged my iPod in and it mounted and pulled up nautilus) 8) . You can't beat the package management. The community and Developers are great, as soon as a bug is found, there squashing it asap. The one downside I could see for some users is XFree86 is used instead of xorg, Which will change in the next release. I've learned to get over that because the simple fact is, i'm not going to suck up my resource for transparent shading while I'm working or playing video games. The transparency in xorg is pretty much for screenshots to look "cool" I know, cause I've done it before, other than screenshots I don't use it 8) Anyway, I'm not much of a writer, so some of the other Ubuntu users can add to this and tell what they like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) I like that ubuntu cares enough about how gnome looks to ask Andy to make the default ubuntu icon theme in .svg Gnome's default look is, and has always been, horrid! Ubuntu takes the initiative. I like the trash can in the panel. Most of all I like that everything works. Debian's have always been good about that though. I don't like the fonts. They're are weak, thin. They are clear. BUT I like fat, AA, fuzzy, bad for my eyes fonts like rh, fedora, mdk, and suse have. LOL. Just another area that ubuntu has shown itself to be above the rest and that they care more about humanity ;) oh, and I like my avatar Edited October 13, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 oops i merged in the wrong direction ... /me looks to pm a admin !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 oops i merged in the wrong direction ... /me looks to pm a admin !! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, I found it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 Ubuntu news: http://ubuntuforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=515 Ubuntu 4.10 RC is avaible also they downgraded the firefox to 0.9.3 (understandelble 1.0rc was buggy like hell) Ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org .:=The AI Dude=:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 best fix for firefox is apt-get install epiphany ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 It seems you have a solution to/for everything, bvc Xmms Ubuntu skin (human theme): http://anka.org/henrik/humanxmms/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagnretur Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Dowloading ubuntu now! What I read so far looks promising. Master bvc :-), do you know if my IPW2200 mini pci network card will be recognised? I am installing ubuntu on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 is there another bvc here? :unsure: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=...fset=30&rows=45 By butters (IP: ---.RES.cmu.edu) - Posted on 2004-09-28 09:33:58I tried installing Ubuntu for a friend on his really fancy 10.4" Sony Vaio microlaptop. The installer was great, in my opinion, except the partitioning tool was clunkier than cfdisk and way slower (for an advanced user) than fdisk. Everything was detected, except the centrino wireless was not available in the install environment. This is not a problem, as long as it works once installed. However, Ubuntu misidentified the ipw2100 adapter (centrino wireless) as an ipw2200 (pci wireless). The boot process would hang on loading the ipw2200 module, whether booting in normal mode or single user mode. Sure wish there was a way to remove ipw2200 from modules.autoload or configure kernel modules in the installer. If they want to rely entirely on automatic hardware detection, they either have to get it right every time or let the user verify/change the configuration. http://aaron.techcommons.info/index.php?p=104 http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/HardwareSupport http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_...in%C2%A0results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 well, ubuntu stuff....k, well I made these; SmoothMan SmoothManBlue The colors were intended to go with Human and the 'guessed' proposed, supposed, soon to come default ubuntu icon themes by AndyFitz, creator of the Etiquette Icon Theme. http://andy.fitzsimon.com.au/play.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagnretur Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 There is only one bvc! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagnretur Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 I am now using Ubuntu and I really love it. For me it is the best distro out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 WEEEEE! New member to the cult/clan!!!!! FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Artificial Intelligence Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 === Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 "The Warty Warthog Release" === Woot!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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