[TriLUG] Ubuntu on my laptop, wow

[Tom Eisenmenger]

As a newbie, I'll "third" it - Ubuntu has been great on my Dell Latitude
C610 so far with the single exception of the trackpad being a bit
erratic (which I'm looking into).  The notebook needs to be dual-boot
and it was a cinch with Ubuntu.  Gentoo, on the other hand, could never
boot properly and I feared for my Win partition which was hidden (and
subsequently recovered with FIXBOOT/FIXMBR) after the install.  

The CD originally installs the i386 version but it was a piece of cake
to grab the i586 version.  I've replaced Gnome with KDE and am now
trying to build a default desktop constructed primarily of SuperKaramba
widgets.  Fun, fun, fun!

I'm planning on building a Linux-only desktop and will probably revisit
Gentoo at that time for the educational reasons noted elsewhere.

Tom

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:27 -0400, Mark Freeze wrote:
> I'll have to second Randall's excitement.  A few days ago I wrote in
> to ask what the best distro for a novice user would be and the answer
> was overwhelmingly Ubuntu.  I downloaded and installed the single CD
> and was really surprised. The ease of use, detection of ALL of the
> hardware...  Everything was great.  I have considered switching away
> from my trust Mandrake but I just can't pull the trigger...
> 
> Regards,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/24/05, Randall Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> > I wrote the list a few months back asking for recommendations on
> > distributions that make it easy for Laptops.  Got a lot of responses,
> > but overwhelmingly I head "Ubuntu" (well, Kubuntu also :))  So I finally
> > got around to kicking M$ in the face last night as it crapped out on me
> > (what a surprise) and so I installed it.  It booted with the wireless
> > already running.  Wow.  I used to use FC3 and the wireless gave me a lot
> > of trouble.  I could get it to work, but every time I updated the kernel
> > I had to reconfigure all the wireless stuff.  (Not knocking FC, it just
> > doesn't make it easy for laptop users)  So Ubuntu is great so far.  I
> > really know nothing about it yet, as I am not used to Debian.  My
> > desktop has been running Gentoo for quite some time now (I wouldn't even
> > begin to try to run that on my laptop), so I am used to the "dirty work"
> > side of Linux so to speak.  Ubuntu is quite refreshing.  I'm sure I'll
> > have some questions for you guys at some point along the way about it
> > though ;)  Thanks for the recommendation!
> > 
> > Randy Barlow
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