Methinks "don't give up too soon"..
Edwin F wrote:
I just tried out ubuntu yesterday, and i dont think it's the *best* of linux experiences i've had.
Well here's a summary of my experience with ubuntu: -Wiped LFS partition (I previously stuffed it up) -Installation was great, everything configured automatically and even the TV Tuner card got worked straight away
Great, see my tests below as well..
This is the tricky part, for me also. But as the install user has auth/password to activate admin tasks, I ignore it mostly (will worry about security sureties later in the learning curve.) Viz Nick's point this morning - it is a non-standard approach to root, & I don't much like it either. But somehow I managed to reset the root password (from runlevel5), and only need it occasionally in a terminal window. - Later. Never have I needed to type "sudo" at all - there is a different logic to root here (off to read Glynn's ref.)-Tried to change root password with 'sudo root' - it asked me for a password -Ended up going into runlevel 1 somehow to change the root password
??? - maybe next time try using "root" as the setup account name at installtime?
No way would I be touching an RPM on an Ubuntu box; & maybe not anywhere else again, period.-Tried compiling something - it asked for gcc -Found out that you could apt-get gcc -Tried compiling something - it asked for glibc -Tried compiling glibc - everything went to hell followed by a kernel panic -Reinstalled -Got to the part about glibc -Got the RPM for glibc -It said to use 'alien' to convert the RPM to a deb package
-I couldnt figure out how to install the DEB package -A little googling and i found out how -It worked -Everything went to hell followed by a kernel panic (maybe it didnt work after all) -Reinstalled -Decided to just listen to some music on it -NO MP3 PLUGIN!!!
Have you tried out Synaptic? - It is/does the beezkneez.
I had to sort out playing a Win-format video clip. Simple: Synaptic-package replace gstreamer with xine, for totem, & away it goes - will be using it tomorrow night.
Even more foolproof was USB camera access. From thread-reading agony I had been put off tackling this on Linux. No need; truly plug & play. An sda drive icon popped up on the desktop (& disappeared cleanly on camera off), which I could drag my jpegs out of. A cam-setup wizard tried to help too, but as my Fuji model wasn't listed in there I just bailed out of that. Thrilled with this.
The sooner something loads up that easily for us, the stronger the Linux armoury will be :-)In Conclusion: Ubuntu runs like Windoze ME on a linux kernel for me.
- All strength to Canonical et. al. for trying, and doing so well. Debian, here I come.
Sincerely etc. Ed.
Thx 4 the Gmail warning too.
Cheers,
-Rik
