I'm reader of BoingBoing, and Slashdot, and other geekish sites, and I've been seeing a lot of talk about Ubuntu, which is one of the Linux OS flavors of choice right now, so I decided to download the LiveCD ISO and run the OS from the CD on my laptop to see how well it worked, etc.
It's very well done. Ubuntu recognized my wireless card, my wireless mouse, my wireless dong...no wait...most importantly it recognized the video card I have in my double-wide Dell Laptop and picked a suitable resolution for the wide-screen.
In the past, video cards have been a sticking point for me in Linux, causing me headaches and much gnashing of teeth.
I'm very very happy with Ubuntu, and if I had a spare box to throw it on, I would. I'm too dependent on this laptop for work to start monkeying with the partitions but I'm glad I gave this a try. I'm going to keep an eye out for a cheap desktop I can get my hands on and start playing with Ubuntu.
Comments (4)
This sounds like a good fit for me but I'm wondering which version of the Live CD you used? Latest? Daily?
Do tell all, please (and a link would be nice, tho' not necessary :-)
TIA!
Posted by Anonymous | July 7, 2006 6:00 PM
Posted on July 7, 2006 18:00
This sounds like a good fit for me but I'm wondering which version of the Live CD you used? Latest? Daily?
Do tell all, please (and a link would be nice, tho' not necessary :-)
TIA!
PS- posted twice because the first time didn't appear to 'take'.
Posted by Richard Harlos | July 7, 2006 6:02 PM
Posted on July 7, 2006 18:02
Sorry about not handing out the links before, but I figured you all would be capable of handling a Google Search. ;)
Posted by Maurice Reeves | July 9, 2006 8:30 AM
Posted on July 9, 2006 08:30
I fiddled around with Ubuntu a while back too. I had an old junky laptop sitting around, and it worked great on that for basic stuff. If i ever have a spare machine around the house (photo file server, etc.), that's definitely what I'm going to go with. My one quibble is that the setup was very 'tech' oriented. I navigated through it okay, but I think it would way too inaccesible for an average user. I don't know if that's changed or not.
Posted by Brian | July 10, 2006 3:14 PM
Posted on July 10, 2006 15:14