toman wrote:
Bob Miller wrote:
Some schwag has arrived.
I have Ubuntu CDs, compliments of the Ubuntu project. Release 5.10
("Breezy Badger"). 40 copies for PC and 15 for minority
architectures.
Marsee at O'Reilly sent us multiple copies of three titles.
Linux Desktop Pocket Guide
Knoppix Pocket Reference
Linux Desktop Hacks
I'll bring it all to this Thursday's clinic.
I just got a set of those as well, 10 PC, 3 64bit and 2 Mac, I think.
If anyone in the Cottage Grove area wants one, please let me know. I
have to say though,
that I loaded Ubuntu on an older laptop of mine and was quite
disappointed with it. The install was very debian, you know, ncurses
based. At some point a root
password got assigned, but not by me, so I have no idea what it is.
The application install GUI was really primitive, maybe they're
expecting users to be apt-get
conversant. It couldn't find a driver for my linksys wireless card,
which older versions of Suse have. All in all, for a distribution
that's working that "Linux for
everybody" angle it seemed like Linux for almost nobody. I think if I
were to inflict a Debian variant on an unsuspecting newbie, it would
be Knoppix or its
progeny, because it does such a good job of autoprobing hardware, and
just works. Anyway, if my Ubuntu bashing wasn't enough to disuade
folks, I have a few
that are free to good homes.
J. Toman
Whoops! I forgot to mention that the Cottage Grove Library is now a
public hotspot, though their DSL connection isn't great.
J. Toman
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