Ubuntu user's report

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Hi Myles,
Thanks for the *great* cheerleading session.  This distro has been a big
question-mark for me for a while (and I've yet to receive the free discs
from Canonical, probably having to do with shipping from South Africa?).

I am *not* an old Debian user.  I have never installed, Potato, Woody,
or BoPeep (that's the sexy-version).  I have not even successfully
installed Apt-RPM mainly because of dependencies :)
For one about to try out Ubuntu and Mepis, and one wishing to become
APT/.deb friendly, what are some of the sources you would recommend?  Is
the GUI packager friendly enough to allow simple browsing through
available packages?

I'm always on the lookout for other worthy distros, and to land one in
the Debian lineage would be a bonus.  As an evangelist attempting to
stay on the pulse of the Linux Desktop useability front I am of course
interested in what my parents would think of a distro.  So far, I've
only ever been able to recommend SuSE for this (since the death of
eDesktop/eWorkstation, RIP).

Starting off with additional source lists to play with would simplify
value-determination :)

Thanks again, Myles.  This was good to hear.




Myles Green wrote:
| Hi All, sorry for the length. If you're not interested in checking out a
| new distro you might want to forgo this email.

| <snip> No hassles,

| At no time are you asked to enter a root password, by default the first
| user created is added to the sudoers list. Now, I *did* have my
| reservations about this idea but I do (sort of) understand their
| reasoning. I also know how to type 'sudo passwd root' in order to
| circumvent that idea (I believe that's all that's needed) but I've
| pretty much gotten used to just typing sudo before any commands that
| require root privileges - this is after all not a mission critical
| system.

| <snip> Having said that, a quick edit of the sources.list
| (found in /etc/apt/) and you can install just about anything your heart
| desires - as long as it's free-as-in-freedom.

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