Ubuntu...

[quickdodge®]

Anyone use it? If so, what are your thoughts? Later, QD.

[guinness]

ubuntu is cool,but if you want a better experience and more visually appealing linux OS,go and download kubuntu.

[green91]

I use it and love it. Buts its not for everyone. There's a pretty drastic learning curve coming from Windows or OSX.

[Nemesis]

Fedora .... / thread

[kain]

Fedora .... / thread

i like fedora and learned on it, however, the fact that it will not recognize my display ( its a tv ) makes me not like it.

[fivex684]

I ran it on a secondary rig for a while. It's good for office/school work or browsing the internet, thats about it.

[quickdodge®]

browsing the internet, thats about it.

That's all I use the Net for. Later, QD.

[MongolPup]

I've only been dual or triple booting for about 2 years but I would never go back. The stupid things about Windows are avoided, although I never got Wine to run any games. I played with virtualization a bit, but then went back to physical partitions again. Ubuntu and Windows 7 at the moment. It's stripped, it's only what you want it to be (which is good and bad) and it is intuitive.

[quickdodge®]

I don't play ANY computer games except what maybe on addictinggames and little Java games like that. I only surf the internet and post on forums when I'm on. Later, QD.

[Paul]

I don't play ANY computer games except what maybe on addictinggames and little Java games like that. I only surf the internet and post on forums when I'm on. Later, QD.


qd its a great os for general use and i stress general :goodjob:

[mmmmpsi]

+1

If all you're doing is browsing the web then kubuntu is a good choice.. Other than that Windows 7 is a solid OS

[green91]

Ehh I'll take Gnome over KDE any day of the week.

[jorgen]

now that i know a few basic commands and could navigate my way around a linux enviroment, i dont know what the hell to use it for. i dont have a need for a mail, web, file or app server...

[cpearson]

It's definitely better than Windows if all your doing is browsing the net. It uses FAR less resources than any new version of windows, so you will see a drastic improvement in load/boot times. You can partition your drive to try it out before you totally go the Unix route. It is a lot different than Windows, but Ubuntu is by far the easiest, and probably the best, Linux distro to start with.

[SPOOLIN]

i would only use linux on a file server that i wouldn't operate.

[91LudeSiT]

QD ignore the people here who throw in their useless opinion when they don't even use linux.

I deal with linux machines all day at work, and most of them are Ubuntu. All I have to say is that it is more then just a "general" OS, or a "file server that I wouldn't operate". It is an extremely powerful and stable OS option, its great for internet machines. It tends to be faster then windows on the same machine. Ubuntu has made great strides to setup a distro that needs to have nothing else added. That being said there is a learning curve and some things will need to be installed manually. IE video codecs, let me know if you need some help getting started and I would be glad to point you in the right direction.

PS The latest version 9.10 is really SWEET!

[Vicosin]

I've been wondering about Ubuntu as well. I was thinking about putting it on a flash and f12-ing that beyotch just to try it out without deleting windows.

[91LudeSiT]

I've been wondering about Ubuntu as well. I was thinking about putting it on a flash and f12-ing that beyotch just to try it out without deleting windows.

You can also boot from the CD and try it without having to go through all the effort to put it on a flash drive.

[guinness]

have all the bugs been worked out of v9.10?the last i had heard and read was that they were pushing back the release date because of some issues they were having with it.

[green91]

For a while i couldnt even get the 9.1 live cd to boot. Didn't like my RAID array but i never had any problems wit 9.04.

[91LudeSiT]

have all the bugs been worked out of v9.10?the last i had heard and read was that they were pushing back the release date because of some issues they were having with it.

Its out of beta now, and I have been using it since october. Seems fine.


For a while i couldnt even get the 9.1 live cd to boot. Didn't like my RAID array but i never had any problems wit 9.04.

Ubuntu doesn't play well with most software raid controllers... personally I'd avoid software raid as they are very prone to failure.

[green91]

Ive never had an issue with any other install than 9.10 with my softraid. 9.04 worked fine with it.

[jorgen]

i heard flash drives boot MUCH faster. any truth to that?

[green91]

SSD drives do boot faster. generally flash drives are USB, they won't boot faster than a standard hard drive.

[91LudeSiT]

Ive never had an issue with any other install than 9.10 with my softraid. 9.04 worked fine with it.

Try reading anything on the raid drivers with the newer kernel. We use it with hardware raid controllers at work and no issues.

When I owned a desktop at home I had to do some juggling to get 8.10 to work with the software raid. I haven't really messed with it since I sold my PC.

[Jecht]

QD I run Ubuntu on both my custom built PC that is five years old and on my EEE PC 1000hd laptop. It really does run faster than Windows. My only issue is moving from the software I use. Going from photoshop to GIMP really was a downgrade - I don't like it as much. There is a slight learning curve, but if you know how to use google and read you'll be able to find guides to help you with anything. Overall, I really like Ubuntu. The latest update, karmic koala (9.10) is working nicely for me and it looks better than Windows IMO.

Also - to comment on the issue of software raid controllers - I would suggest using hardware controllers. Like previously stated, software ones sometimes fail.

[91LudeSiT]

Like previously stated, software ones sometimes fail.

Try always, for some reason, at one point or another software raid will fail.

[green91]

At some point any raid will fail

[91LudeSiT]

At some point any raid will fail

Never had hardware raid fail, just hard drives. With software raid I've had arrays go bad with perfectly good hard drives.