What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

Tue Apr 1 00:13:16 UTC 2008

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 14:04 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> For the heck of it, this weekend, I installed their current beta on the laptop I was using for FC9. I don't see what the big deal is. It was nice to have it ask to install stuff (like flash) when it encounterd the need but I had the same issues with wireless that I have had with FC8/FC9. I had to end up using ndiswrapper to get it to work (Linksys WPC54GS). The only things I noted of real interest were: Firefox starts much faster than in either FC8 or FC9 and the update thingy hauls booty compared to YUM. Most annoying things were the weird colors and this stupid jungle sound that goes off any time you log in. Also, the whole "You can't get to root" thing is weird.
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Arch
> 
> 

Yeah that root thing is really unusual the first time- turned me off
installing for quite a while. They actually use the user password IF you
have wheel group access: same as sudoers.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Pemberton
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM, vincenzo romero <new2xen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > Great thread ...
> >  >
> >  >  Quick question - for those of you who deployed Ubuntu for your home -
> >  >  ( i have played with it at work, indeed like a toy) ... does it have
> >  >  availability of most applications that teenagers would like?  ....
> >  >  itunes support?  etc....
> >
> >  I've been meaning to check out Linux Mint myself:
> >  http://www.linuxmint.com/
> >
> 
> Frankly, I think distro hopping is a waste of time if you current
> distro  meets your needs.
> 
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