Quote from: Bubba on October 02, 2007, 09:25:54 pmNah, it just sucks balls - fuck the stupid penguin Loving your work - this made me laugh. I'm still cosying up to the little penguin fella. Changed to Ubuntu this weekend. Its better than suse. Because of the way I partitioned my drive originally theres no lost files and changing distro is pretty straightforward.
Nah, it just sucks balls - fuck the stupid penguin
Which Ubuntu distro do people recommend? Dobbin which was it that did all the partitioning etc. straight from the CD, ubuntu or Xubuntu?
Slack-line's fairly detailed info is here, which is only about 10 threads down.
Personally I'd recommend....
I've learnt a hell of a lot about Ubuntu over the past few days which as been as frustrating as it has been interesting. First problem was with the live CD, ended up using the text based installer, I can't really see why people wouldn't use this as standard its got to be a lot quicker? Second was down to a reverse engineered driver from Broadcom firmware, its flaky but it now works... requires re-doing each time the computer is shutdown. Third, network manager seems to have a bug with ASCII based wep keys, changed my wireless network setting anyway now but i managed to get it working by just using Hex instead without changing any router settings.It's far from perfect but it runs a hell of a lot faster on Ubuntu than it does on XP and the plus side is that it doesn't take a ridiculous amount of time to boot up and require re-building every so often. I'd highly recommend trying it to anyone who has a slightly older unreliable laptop kicking around.
And then the troubleshooting when you've forgotten to include some option that you needed and the computer won't start up any more...
I thought Ubuntu netbook sucked and made poor use of the limitied res of my netbook