On 4/21/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, Apr 21, 2005, at 11:25 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote: > > On Thursday 21 April 2005 12:06 am, Robert Citek wrote: > >> Ubuntu looks sweet. > > > > If you like GNOME. > > You know, from what little I've worked with it, I think I do like > Gnome. At least I like Ubuntu's rendition of Gnome. Besides, this is > the first Linux LiveCD that actually works on a my Mac. It doesn't > work perfectly, but that's OK for now. > > What works: > - I get a functioning Gnome desktop > - networking (wired) > - X11 > - audio > - mouse (touchpad) > - keyboard > - FireFox > - GAIM > > What doesn't work: > - no Thunderbird (what's up with that?) > - wireless (sees the device but doesn't load the right drivers) > - booting into a different runlevel > - changing to virtual terminals (maybe the key combination is > different than I expect) > - Evolution (crashes Ubuntu when authenticating to Exchange) > - volume keys on keyboard > - it sort-of mounts the Apple harddrive (it can mount /dev/hda10, but > only 4 files show. Where's the rest?) > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > I tried the Ubuntu live CD and half of it didn't work for me either. I didn't get what all the big fuss was about.
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