Hola (Because of my pitiful English, see Spanish version at the bottom)
Ubuntu has become a very popular distro. In fact, the most popular. I have seen many people without previous experience in Linux using Ubuntu but always having problems with wirless or their ethernet devices. But windows doesn´t have to worry. Even a Linux fanatic hides a portatil with Vista down the bed... (don't tell nobody). A problem with last distros, at least with the free downloadables, are the propietary codecs. The best distro depends on your chipset. I have three diferent machines with diferent chipset (actually, cheap-set) running well, each one with a different Linux distro. (Two of them Red Hat based and one Debian based) Seems to me that RPMs based repositories are better. On december I upgraded to Fedora 10 from Fedora 9. Zero problems, even more, Fedora 10 corrected problems I had with the previous version. Yum is a good repository. Alfredo Ubuntu se ha convertido en una distribución muy popular. De hecho, el más popular. He visto a muchas personas sin experiencia previa en Linux usando Ubuntu, pero siempre teniendo problemas con su conexión Wi-Fi o sus dispositivos Ethernet. Pero windows no tiene de qué preocuparse, incluso los fanáticos de Linux tienen un portatil con Vista oculto bajo la cama ... (no le digas a nadie. Un problema con las últimas distribuciones, al menos con las versiones libres descargables, son los codecs propietarios. Me parece que los repositorios basados en RPMs son mejores. He actualizado en diciembre a Fedora 10 desde Fedora 9. Cero problemas, aún más, Fedora 10 corrigió los problemas que tuve con la versión anterior. Yum es un buen repositorio. Alfredo 2009/1/20 Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > Canonical, the company creating the Ubuntu linux distro, apparently is > getting close to profitable. > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/20/1627243 > > I haven't used Linux/Unix for several years as my main desktop, opting for > Mac's "Unix with a pretty face" OS X. So here are a few questions for our > Unix/Linux users: > > 1 - Have the distro wars settled enough so that Ubuntu is emerging as the > desktop of choice? > > 2 - Can Ubuntu run on the most modern laptops, with full access to the > often proprietary device drivers? > > 3 - Is Ubuntu's package management sophisticated enough that upgrades are > trivial to perform and free of version conflicts? > > 4 - Are there players/viewers/editors for the common media/formats? Maybe > this is better asked as: What applications and data formats are you missing > most? > > -- Owen > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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