brief impressions on Ubuntu 5.04
After spending quite a bit of time with Fedora Core 3 & 4 and reading lotsa interesting things about Debian and Ubuntu I decided to try Ubuntu today. I had tried Debian two years ago and was dissapointed by how difficult I found it (installation was very confusing to me). I think Debian may be one of the "purest" open source distros around and I hope to use it more someday. In any case, I thought Ubuntu would be easier (and it was) but I still couldn't figure out how to:
mount an external drive (I figured this out in FC) login as root (could only do this as a terminal) upgrade/select packages with apt (gcc, perl and a few others were missing) There were other minor things but overall I really missed my FC4 and decided to ditch Ubuntu and get FC4 going again. Surely given enough time I could have gotten around better in Ubuntu, but I just lost patience. For now, FC4 is plenty powerful for me. I didn't post this here to start a flame war, but to share my experience and to hopefully get suggestions should I try Ubuntu/Debian again in the future. Thanks, linuxted |
Most of what you need to know can be had by googling or checking this forum or ubuntuforums.org or ubuntuguide.org . I think you gave up too soon. Ubuntu is a great distro, well I'm partial to KDE so for me it is Kubuntu. :)
Give it a second shot. |
i had the opposite experience, came from FC3 (first real linux distro I've ever used) and went to FC4. I think Fedora is easy to use and all but the speed I think sucks. I disabled unnecessary services and tried it on several recent P4 platforms and still the same experience. I tried CentOS and that distro flies for some reason. I then went to Ubuntu and I love the speed and the simlistic nature of it. I too hate the sudo stuff as I've been accustomed to the whole admin on XP experience. After I finally configured everything I needed after the initial setup I calmed down about the sudo commands because they are less frequent. My goal someday is to phase out Windows for good other than my role at work. I'm still trying to figure out how to use a distro at work that I can join to the domain and get good results with citrix support etc... I looked into Xandros as they seem to have a simple business setup for newbies. Anyway enough ranting :D
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For me, Fedora Core has the feel of trying to hide linux from the user a bit. What's more, it's based on RPMs, and do I ever hate RPMs. apt makes retrieving packages so much easier, and if you don't like using text based tools, there's always kynaptic, etc.
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Ubuntu's Ubuntu Guide has the answers to everything a newbie could want. It's not that difficult to copy and paste some commands into the terminal. If you want total GUI for a Debian-based distro, Mepis is your pal:
1. All hard drives and partitions automatically appear on the desktop 2. You can log in as root immediately if necessary. In fact, there's an icon for browsing files as root within the user login. 3. Enabling extra repositories in Synaptic can be down with three clicks (settings > repositories, check some boxes). Don't give up on Debian-based distros so soon. I happen to like Ubuntu more than Mepis now that I've embraced the command-line, but for GUI simple configuration, Mepis can't be beat. |
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Thanks for the help! I do like the "philosophy" of the debian-based distros so I think it deserves some more research on my part. |
The repository list as viewed from Synaptic is great. You do not need to go all over the net looking for RPM's, what you need has been gathered for you already. "I want this" <click> <install> <use>
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I'm trying ubuntu again
I've gotten much further after the suggestion to look at the user's guide!
I have now successfully accessed an external drive, gotten my old data and added/updated packages... I'm liking the distro much more this time. I'm having a problem setting the screen refresh rate to 75Hz though (any suggestions?) Thanks, linuxted |
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