[Cialug] RE: UBUNTU

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I just downloaded and ran the Ubuntu live cd.

It was nice to run gnome with a nice clean install devoid of all of
applications you never run... Wow, looks like they know how to make a
first impression... They have my first pick for applications, as the
default email client was evolution, browser was firefox and a install of
open office. They are some games and the a few basic utilities

The 2.6 kernel is nice. My guess is that is why gnome feels so
responsive. It sure makes my RHEL WS look "rough", but then again, we
are comparing bananas and grapes. 

:) Dave








On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:27, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> Could this the workstation solution that we've all been looking for?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:23, albus wrote:
> > I hate to say it, but it installs as easy or easier than winders.
> > And it found everything without having to tweak the hell out of it.
> > 
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "D. Joe Anderson" <deejoe@raccoon.com>
> > To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] RE: UBUNTU
> > 
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Korver, Aaron wrote:
> > >> What is it's "catch"?  Gentoo's is compile it to optimize it, Knoppix is 
> > >> run
> > >> from CD, anything special about UBUNTU?
> > >
> > > It's a commercial distribution.  So, unlike Gentoo, Knoppix, and
> > > Debian, its release engineering isn't entirely up to volunteers.
> > >
> > > It's aimed squarely at the desktop/laptop, newbie,
> > > non-technical, non-server market (though I think they do have a
> > > server version or install set or something, since in the end its
> > > still GNU/Linux underneath).  The disabled root account is just
> > > one example of this--the "right way" to do administrative stuff
> > > is to use sudo rather than to drop into root.  If the install
> > > "just works" no one should *have* to use root, anyway.  I think
> > > the closest comparison here in terms of target market is the
> > > MacOS X desktop market.
> > >
> > > It's a Debian derivative.  So, compare in that regard to Knoppix
> > > or Lindows or <insert a bazillion other Debian derivatives
> > > here>.
> > >
> > > The billionaire astronaut backing is no joke.  The money behind
> > > the company behind Ubuntu comes from the South African moneybags
> > > who paid for a ride on the Soyuz or something like that.  He
> > > started the Thawte commercial certificate authority back in the
> > > days before Network Solutions bought it up.
> > >
> > > That money pays several people who were already participants in
> > > free software development, including some folks from the GNOME
> > > project, I think.
> > >
> > > Release cycle:  Their plan is to follow the same kind of release
> > > schedule as GNOME, which is to have a release every six months
> > > come hell or high water.  This is supposed to help
> > > everybody--developers and users--to plan better, I think.  If
> > > someone wants to make it into the next release, they know what
> > > their timeline is.  If they don't, not such a huge deal, because
> > > the next one is 6 months away.  Contrast this with Debian's
> > > very, uh, deliberate "when its ready" release plan.  Ubuntu's
> > > first 6 month release date isn't until later this spring, so I
> > > guess we'll see how it goes.  Works great for GNOME, or so they
> > > tell me.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > D. Joe Anderson         www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
> > > "DRM [...] is to copyright law as a machine gun on
> > > a motion detector is to real estate law"  -- Don Marti
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