![]() ![]() Overall, it’s worth a try, especially since 2.8.1 is now available for free download. It does automate some tasks that very much need to be automated, but it lacks polish. The most talked about thing is Adminmenu, which can be used in both console and X. It’s installer is one of the better ones I’ve seen, it’s a nice GUI/ncurses combo that gets the job done very well. Well, it does install IceWM no matter what, but I don’t see that being as much an issue as if it were KDE or Gnome, or even XFCE. ![]() It doesn’t stick you with Gnome or KDE, which is nice. ![]() I did have some problems with circle dependencies both times I tried it, last time with gconf2 and gdm. It does have it’s own repository, but it tries to maintain compatability with pinning. But alas my curiousity will probably compel me to upgrade.īut anyway, Ubuntu is now one of my favorites, along with Mandrake and Mepis (looking forward to full release of ProMepis). Whether or not I go for the Hoary release, or just wait until Grumpy Groundhog remains to be seen (since Warty is working so well for me right now – why fix what isn’t broken?). With this, I was able to tailor the distro exactly to my needs.Īnd along the way, I’ve discovered what a fast, stable, simple, and pleasant distro Ubuntu truely is. But that was so amazingly easily remedied with apt-get/Synaptic, cobined with the Ubuntu Main, restricted, and universe repositories. Yes, I was a little disappointed with the limited amount of software that was installed with it, particularily the lack of development tools. I chimed into that discussion thread saying that I’m not that wild about the “stripped down” distros, even though I was looking forward to trying Ubuntu (due to Gnome 2.8), and that I prefered full featured, mulit CD distros like Mandrake (which I still like a lot).īut now I’ve been using Ubuntu Warty for about 2 months, and I think it’s terrific. At that point I had just ordered the free CDs and they hadn’t arrived yet. Back in November OSNews ran another review of Ubuntu, titled “Ubuntu 8 weeks later” (or however many weeks it was). ![]()
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