well

some are reporting success, other not so

personally, my Palm Zire and Sony digi cam didn't work the first time I tried them (whereas with mandrake they work flawlessly)
I have just reinstalled ubuntu from scratch and will try again after patches/updates applied

I have found the hotplugging to be fine ... no problems! My digital camera was recognised instantly and the nice little program gthumb popped up and showed me my pictures. So it should work fine.

I am having problems with my USB modem as you can see from above ... but that is to do with the renaming of usb-ohci to ohci-hcd and the config script not recognising that ... any help on that ...???

According to the reviews I read, it does.

According to me, it doesn't. I have to mount my usb stick manually.

San

Hotplugging for me is also fine. I've tested both my USB sticks and they both mount perfectly.

hotplugging my usb stick, usb hard drive and usb card reader all work beautifully.

anyone gotten the nvidia drivers to compile? no kernel source and headers aviable

you don't need to compile the nvidia drivers

they come with

but you need to add the line "nvidia" to /etc/modules as well as to the driver section of XF86Config-4
I also downloaded the nvidia glx package from the online sources using synaptic.

the kernel headers and source are there but not named as you would expect
linux-image-xxx and linux-headers-xxx (I think)
if you use synaptic, just type linux in the find window and it'll show you everything that's there

apt-cache search linux-headers
apt-cache search linux-source

They just renamed them.

edit: oops, sorry, didn't notice salparadise already answered this

Ubuntu is based here in Australia, however it has developers around the world.

It is essentially a stripped down version of Debian that focuses primarly on hardware support, and ease of use. It's whole goal is to be able to install it, using their own custom install, which as was counted at the live demonstration has something like 7 total user inputs, and then to have it "Just Work". It's not focused at the server, or even the advanced computer user, but they would love to target the average joe blow who doesn't know a partition from a mount point.

They have a release schedule of every three months, which means that they will release the current STABLE and TESTED version of Ubuntu every three months.

Cheers

Tap-Out

I thought it was a South African distro with developers based around the world, but the release manager is an Aussie.

and there was me thinking it came from The Isle of Mann

Ubuntu is something to do with Canonical which IS headquartered in the Isle of Mann.

Canonical is a company owned by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African (First African in Space).

I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds interesting. I'm not a joe blow, but I am somewhat lazy. Besides, I'd like something that I could recommed to people who ARE joe blows.

What repositories does Ubuntu use
? ie: what is in sources.lst ? Debian or ubuntus own servers ?

To answer my own question , Yes - you need to go to Ubuntus own servers

These links might help

http://www.ubuntulinux.org
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/WartyWarthog/UpgradeNotes