Linux That Works
I'm posting this from my Dell Latitude D400 running Ubuntu 7.10 Linux. I threw a spare hard drive in it this morning and installed the system. When it booted up, it immediately recognized that it needed two proprietary drivers for the wireless card and the software modem, located and installed them. The entire system is up and running flawlessly. This is an operating system that complete amateurs can load and run.
Up until now, getting wireless and especially WPA encryption has been a bit difficult. No more. This operating system is simple and the software tells you what it needs, then asks your permission to install it. If you have been thinking about trying Linux, give this system a try. I think you'll be impressed.
Geek Stuff | Gaius Sunday, 3 February , 2008
By crosspatch, Sunday, 3 February , 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Ubuntu is the potential I have been telling people since 1997 that the debian package system offered. I have been waiting for someone to do just what Ubuntu did. Actually, Knoppix was the first. but I am really happy to see Ubuntu be so sucessful.
Long live apt !
I worked in a production environment with over 2000 Debian linux servers that I could upgrade from my living room when I needed to.
By Gaius, Sunday, 3 February , 2008 @ 6:48 pm
I started playing with Ubuntu with the 6.10 release. This one is amazing. (I’m still using it to post this right now.) There is even a program out there to run Windows applications inside Ubuntu. I think these guys are a serious threat to Microsoft.
By chuck, Sunday, 3 February , 2008 @ 7:44 pm
I’m running Fedora 8 because it was easy to install on my existing software raid1 partitions. Yeah, I could make Ubuntu go, but I like to try various distros and no longer have the patience if one doesn’t “just work” with my setup. I’ll wait and see what the 8.04 release looks like. The 7.10 live disk didn’t even see the raid partitions, it just saw two disks.