Re: OT: Tiger V Gibbon
- From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:07:36 GMT
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:58:20 +0000, Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-10-30 09:28:23 +0000, T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Hi All,
I've been 'trying' Linux over the years but never been able to get one
to do *all* the basics on whatever machine I tried it on...After
spotting Ric's heads up the other day I downloaded the new
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon ISO (7.10) and tried the live CD on both my old
Dell Inspiron 8100 and my newer Toshiba Sat Pro A60. It wouldn't work
on the Dell (video issues) but seemed fine on the Tosh with all the
basics working perfectly....
So, the furthest I've ever got (or it's got on it's own is more the
truth) with a Linux, but sill a long way off from being a real
alternative to XP (or even Vista) for me .. but still early days and
I'll keep trying.
Ubuntu is a nice system, and I think I could live day to day with it. I
prefer OS X for polish and available apps, but for about 90% of my work
I know I -could- use Ubuntu quite successfully.
It's great for desktop stuff. The Server version isn't much cop
though: took me quite some time to set up VNC reliably, get three
disks working as a JBOD using LVM, and getting rsync to run as a
daemon. And VMware Server took three reboots to suddenly start
working.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
"Doesn't the futility of it all depress you, Bernard?"
"Not really, Minister. I'm a civil servant."
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