Ubuntu is up

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:26:06 -0500, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Check on Linux Today - there was a mixed review. I didn't have time to
wait for the site to load (very slow).

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