Re: ubuntu (was: Xandros3 released)

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

I have tried it and liked/disliked it. In my case I went with it on an old 
Mac G3 powerbook and a Blue&White G3. The powerbook because I was tired of 
waiting for Yellowdog to release 4.0, and on the B&W because Yellowdog 
doesn't support our flavor of B&W (they have the rare scsi disks in them, 
most are IDE).

Likes: it just plain worked. Very nice desktop interface setup in gnome. 
Got all the sound and most of the powerbook buttons to work. Smooth 
design, and nice apt (debian) updating. Runs better (well, faster)  than 
OSX on this hardware.

Dislike: Sort of forced to have some packages that I don't normally have, 
for example emacs must be installed if you want the nice, smooth desktop 
desktop interface mentioned above. I don't use emacs (to my knowledge), so 
it is a waste disk space for me. I didn't really look into it very much, 
and now the powerbook is on loan to someone else and the B&W is used by 
yet again someone else.

So, very well worth it for my case of older Mac hardware. Not enough 
better to make me change on Intel-like platforms. Mostly, my 
distro-experimentation days are over, or on hiatus.

Erich



On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Robert Citek wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Dec 16, 2004, at 12:19 US/Central, Leon Raymer wrote:
>> It sounds like Ubuntu will meet all criteria for wife, mom, and you....a
>> solid, free-beer Debian with no junk. http://ubuntulinux.org/
>
> I've heard mixed reviews about it.  Anyone here try it?  One of the folks on 
> the cwelug list said he'll bring in a couple of copies to the cwelug meeting 
> this Sunday.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
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