Ubuntu is up

[Michael Hipp]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Looks like the release version of Ubuntu is up:
> 
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/warty/

Replying to my own message ...

I burned the CD and installed it on a partition on LabRat. First 
impression is quite positive. The UI is wonderfully clean and easy on 
the eyes and not so overly themed as FC. Haven't spent enough time with 
it to know if it suffers from any of the same Gnome-bound flaws as FC2.

It installed without incident, seemed to find all my hardware and 
configured X with no help from me. The installer looks much like Debian. 
But whereas the regular Debian installer takes "laborious" to new 
heights, Ubuntu is quite easy and untedious. But the installer is not 
for newbies - you must understand about partitioning and bootloaders to 
not get stumped by it.

Even the "Network browser" works right out of the box. Compared to FC, 
the dearth of GUI configuration tools is really hard to get used to. 
Somewhere I'll have to dig up that Debian command to tell me what 
services are loading on startup. It looked like a whole basketful were 
loading which would be a security, performance and memory concern. I had 
heard Ubuntu was supposed to be lean right out of the box in this regard.

It remains to be seen if Ubuntu will be a flash in the pan, turn into 
just another "me too" distro, or be a real mover. But I think it is one 
of the most encouraging / interesting things to come along in quite a while.

Michael