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Linux Support => Distro Specific => Ubuntu => Topic started by: adb22791 on August 03, 2005, 02:50:43 PM

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: adb22791 on August 03, 2005, 02:50:43 PM

For those of you who havn\'t seen this, this is definatly something all of you should check out.
Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/)

Ubuntu is Debian with a nice gui on it  :)
There is also a live cd.

Enjoy!

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: dynaweb on September 12, 2005, 05:37:26 PM

I like live cd\'s for trying out Linux distros.  I am going to give Ubuntu a try and review it.

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: adb22791 on September 12, 2005, 05:43:56 PM

It\'s been great to me, just be sure to enable the Plug and Play OS Setting in yoru bios and your good to go!

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: sargek on October 03, 2005, 07:08:03 PM

Ubuntu is actually the only distro with which I have ever been able to get everything on my laptop working - except the wireless card, but it\'s windoze only. I tried in vain to get ndiswrapper to work, but no go. Anyway, it\'s a great distro and being a Debian base, with apt-get for package management is a real plus.

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: brolin_1911a1 on September 04, 2006, 03:30:55 PM

Quote from: adb22791

For those of you who havn\'t seen this, this is definitely something all of you should check out.
Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/)

Ubuntu is Debian with a nice gui on it  :)
There is also a live cd.

Enjoy!

Ubuntu is nice.  I have several Linux distros but Ubuntu is the only one I have on my hard drives.  But the Ubuntu Live CD is slow enough to make tectonic plate movement and continental drift look fast by comparison.  Knoppix and SimplyMepis Live CDs are much, much faster.  On the plus side, however, the number of applications available for Ubuntu via synaptic seems much larger than on the aforementioned distros.   And using it is (mostly) very intuitive. Certainly the install is very intuitive and easy.

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: ctwjr on December 09, 2006, 02:11:13 PM

I tried Ubuntu and I wasn\'t really impressed.  Yeh, the installer was really easy and it detects a lot of hardware, but overall it didn\'t float my boat.  I guess maybe it is because I come from a server background and prefer command line for a lot of functions.  I found that having to SU every command was really annoying.

Title: Ubuntu
Post by: nebula on July 06, 2008, 11:55:19 AM

total newboy to nix, found/heard bout Ubuntu gave it a go found it to be great. of course I don\'t know what the others can do