[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone

[Dennis Myhand]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:49, Fred James wrote:
> All
> Any one have any experience with ubuntu Linux - any thoughts or opinion 
> to share?  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
> Regards
> Fred James

I used the stable and testing versions for about 8 months.  Installs
easy, has a lot of great features with it, only has GNOME (Which I
prefer to use), and has a lot of good ideas behind it.  Unfortunately, a
lot of the default programs do not work on Ubuntu.  I had hell getting a
media player to work (never did), and there was a serious problem with
Java and firefox.  If the program you want to use is not in the Ubuntu
lists (called Universe, but is actually far smaller than the known
universe), and you try to manually install it, the libs may not be there
and you may break more stuff trying to install them than the system can
tolerate.  I really like Ubuntu, but a lot of work still needs to be
done.  HTH, Dennis in Victoria