Hi, I've finally had a crack at Ubuntu today (thought I better since it's the Hare Krishna OS of choice). A friend ordered a pile of the Ubuntu install CDs of the innernet. It comes as two CDs packed into a nice cardboard digipak. One is a Live CD and the other is an Install CD.
The install went smoothly enough although the partitioner is obfuscated in manual mode. Now it's run up it looks like your basic Debian system with less options. The first thing I always look for in a new install is where to set up dial up networking. Surprisingly, I can find absolutely nothing in the menu system to help with that. Dumb dumb dumb. In fact Ubuntu hasn't even found my external USR modem and linked it to /dev/modem. Quite disappointing really, that's easy meat for any installer worth its salt. *sigh* Back to the command line I suppose. pon here I come. How could it be possible to push this on to Linux newbies? Michael.
