[NBLUG/talk] ubuntu Linux DIstro - Debian based

[Rob Orsini]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 12:41, Bryce Hardy wrote:
> On 11/25/2004 10:18 AM, Mark Street wrote:
> 
> > I spent less than an hour this morning exploring the Warty Warthog release
> > of Ubuntu Linux.
> > 
> > Nice short and sweet deb installer.
> > Recognized all my hardware - fairly new stuff including the Dell Flat
> > panel DVI and nVidia card, even the onboard sound on the ASUS P4P800.
> > Picked up my wireless PCI card, Netgear Prism Chipset and set it up on
> > intstall, as well as the onboard 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940).  Didn't pick up
> > the  WinTV PVR 250... oh well, can't have everything.
> > 
> > New 2.6 kernel with a Gnome 2.8 complete workstation desktop default
> > install from 1 CD.
> > 
> > Recognized the XP partition I had on the drive and set it up in grub.
> > 
> > Synaptic is running right now bringing it up to date.
> > 
> > Nice piece of work.  Check it out.
> 
> I second that. Been running Warty since it's release on my AMD64 system 
> and very happy. And the best part by far is the absolutely unparalleled 
> community support. The phrase "RTFM" is (informally) banned from both 
> the lists and the web forums. This is definately the next step for linux 
>    for regular people.

Third that. I installed it on my laptop (Fujitsu p2120) yesterday and
was very pleased to find functional power management features (w/ACPI).

Rob