I've been using Ubuntu on a series of Lenovo laptops since Ubuntu 6.? Ubuntu has evolved from being "high maintenance and frustrating" to "smooth as a baby's bum".
The turning point was 8.10 which installed fully on the first go with all the inputtant device drivers working. The only ones not working ootb were the fingerprint scanner and proprietary drivers for 3d graphics. I have never experienced a problem with package upgrades. I totally recommend Ubuntu and look forward to upgrading to version 9. On 08/05/2009, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Me, too. Though they broke some of my tablet setup at the very last moment, > while apparently making 99% of tablet setup work automagically. > > And they've been hitting these 6 month deadlines for years, now, almost like > they were building something tangible out of real stuff with real supply > chains. > > -- rec -- > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hola, Alfredo! >> >> I've been using Kubuntu for a few years now, switching to it from Mandrake >> (after switching from Slackware). I agree that 9.04 is Canonical's best >> distribution yet. >> >> Cheers, >> >> --Doug >> >> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alfredo Covaleda < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hola >>> >>> I'm pretty amazed with Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope - released in >>> April 2009. Well, all Linux distributions are almost the same thing, even >>> more if you are good working with console, but Ubuntu 9.04 is an easy way >>> to >>> use Linux. Last weekend I shifted one of my two development platforms >>> from >>> Fedora 10 to Ubuntu and I think I will married Ubuntu. >>> >>> Hasta pronto y muchos éxitos. >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff ============================================================ 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
