Ubuntu noob here...

[RedBeard]

Wow...
I loaded 6.10 on a P3 laptop because I needed to reinstall windows anyway. Well I had the Ubuntu CD so I figured I would give it a try..

Niiice. It found every single piece of hardware and setting up the wifi was a snap. I figured that installing apps would be a serious PITA. Well I was wrong. I used the Add/Remove program and I installed a few apps like VLC and some games. Everything worked great... even the system updater.

I have used Knoppix in the past but I really like the feel Ubuntu much better.

Obviously I don't use my laptop for games, but for productivity it rocks!

 

[tatteredpotato]

Yea it's nice, but installing is a PITA when it isn't in any of the repositories.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: BlameCanada
Yea it's nice, but installing is a PITA when it isn't in any of the repositories.

Nah, you can usually find a .deb of the file to install using dpkg -i <package name> if not you can either install from source, or build your own .deb and contribute it back Also for many packages you can usually find someone that has the .deb in a repository of their own that you can add to your sources.list on install.

 

[Karot]

apt-get FTW!

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: BlameCanada
Yea it's nice, but installing is a PITA when it isn't in any of the repositories.

Most things that anyone would ever need would have a repository somewhere. Anything else would probably be subversion, so if you need something like that, you would probably know how to compile from source.

 

[Wolfsraider]

I liked ubuntu before this last version, now i cant even find yast lol (only looked for a few minutes) and i love the look but its been dumbed down, very few parameters to change while installing, ie kde or gnome are gone, networking options gone, sure you can tweak it after lol

i will say it found everything on my dig
c2d e6600 , x800gto, yukon 10/100 card , realtek audio

withouyt a glitch so maybe change is good, easy to dual boot as well. I tried the 64bit version but couldnt get it out of text mode lol

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
I liked ubuntu before this last version, now i cant even find yast lol (only looked for a few minutes) and i love the look but its been dumbed down, very few parameters to change while installing, ie kde or gnome are gone, networking options gone, sure you can tweak it after lol

i will say it found everything on my dig
c2d e6600 , x800gto, yukon 10/100 card , realtek audio

withouyt a glitch so maybe change is good, easy to dual boot as well. I tried the 64bit version but couldnt get it out of text mode lol

Well, it's not that surprising that you can't find YaST, seeing as that's a SuSE thing