Ubuntu user's report

[Myles Green]

On Sun, 2004-19-12 at 08:43 -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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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?

Yes, Synaptic is a very nice front-end to apt and easy to work with.

> 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 :)

I'll send you the one I use off-list if you'd like, it's set up for
Hoary (sounds like sorry) but you should probably comment them out until
you get acquainted with the stable branch. I just did a 'sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade' late this morning - ~3 hours and 1600+ packages but I had
already installed KDE Afterstep Windowmaker 9wm IceWM Fluxbox and
XFce4-4.2rc2 plus all the development stuff. That's what happens when
you get carried away while using Synaptic <g>. Anyway, for the record,
there had been problems with Hoary due to Python-2.4 and the Xorg-6.8.1
packages *BUT* they were fixed as of ~10 AM today and so far
(knock-on-wood) everything seems quite stable.

> Thanks again, Myles.  This was good to hear.
> 

No problem, I'm glad that at least a couple of people were encouraged by
it.

Happy Holidays,
Myles

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Development Branch http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
My GPG/PGP public key (9D02F338) is available on this server: http://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/
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