distrocenter.linux.com— For those that are interested in the latest version of Ubuntu, here's a review that covers the installation, desktop, package management, and more.
Oct 11, 2005View in Crawl 4
I've been using 5.04 for the past 6 months and find it very user friendly. As for Mepis, no doubt its a great distro as well. Can't go wrong with either, but overall I like what Mark Shuttlesworth has done for Linux and with a few hundred million in the bank I would bet on the long term health and popularity of Ubuntu/Kubuntu
I've had a ton of trouble with the preview and the release candidate in trying to do a default install on a compaq proliant server... It claims the root drive isn't there even though it just booted of the damned thing.Luckily I'm not the only one with this error. Although I think it would be fixed much sooner if the Ubuntu CTO (Matt Zimmerman) wasn't so arrogant on bugzilla. I will probably end up compiling my own kernel. Things just seem to work when they are done correctly. I just hope for the sake of other people they fix this bug.
I posted the story because I know a lot of folks are interested in Ubuntu (both current users and those that have just heard things about it) and because I know that the final release usually isn't that much different that the release candidate. Don't get me wrong, having the diggs is a cool bonus but even if know one dugg it I still would have put it out there for those that may be interested.
Try a different video resolution and bit depth. That was my problem for a while. For some reason it didn't want to start X in 1600x1200; my monitors native resolution is 1024x768 so it was ok.
wesvtOct 12, 2005
I've been using 5.04 for the past 6 months and find it very user friendly. As for Mepis, no doubt its a great distro as well. Can't go wrong with either, but overall I like what Mark Shuttlesworth has done for Linux and with a few hundred million in the bank I would bet on the long term health and popularity of Ubuntu/Kubuntu
cool4u2viewOct 12, 2005
I've had a ton of trouble with the preview and the release candidate in trying to do a default install on a compaq proliant server... It claims the root drive isn't there even though it just booted of the damned thing.Luckily I'm not the only one with this error. Although I think it would be fixed much sooner if the Ubuntu CTO (Matt Zimmerman) wasn't so arrogant on bugzilla. I will probably end up compiling my own kernel. Things just seem to work when they are done correctly. I just hope for the sake of other people they fix this bug.
reggiedardenOct 12, 2005Submitter
I posted the story because I know a lot of folks are interested in Ubuntu (both current users and those that have just heard things about it) and because I know that the final release usually isn't that much different that the release candidate. Don't get me wrong, having the diggs is a cool bonus but even if know one dugg it I still would have put it out there for those that may be interested.
smiley2billionOct 13, 2005
Try a different video resolution and bit depth. That was my problem for a while. For some reason it didn't want to start X in 1600x1200; my monitors native resolution is 1024x768 so it was ok.