Ubuntu is up

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:05:18 -0500, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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.

The new Debian installer is anything but laborious (at least by my
standards).  When' s the last time you installed it, and what did you
use?

> 
> 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's called `ps ax`, and if you don't want to run it, don't install it
(or uninstall it: apt-get remove <package-name>.

> 
> 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.

Will have to give it a try.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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