On 03 29, 07, at 11:54 PM, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
Tonight, I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta on my home desktop,
and as soon as I rebooted, Feisty told me that there are 153
updates available. I installed all the updates, of course. I
expect Feisty to keep telling me from time to time that there are
more updates available.
i installed feisty livedvd over the weekend along side gentoo. feisty
is a great piece of software. the installer's intro is certainly the
prettiest i've seen. beyond the aesthetics, feisty was able to run
direct rendering off my 9250 video card without fuss or hiccup.
my dsl was a breeze to install--- though i had to open a terminal and
run pppoeconf to get it to work. why couldn't they add that to the
installer?
honestly, its a great piece of operating system. my interest in
running it was so i could try out wine and run windows games off
linux because i couldn't get direct rending to work on gentoo. i got
wine to work through the hacks throughout the web. no wine package
for feisty just yet, but i suppose that will change in a few weeks. i
didn't get to make windows games work though, but thats a different
thing all together.
the update thingy is really good. apt-get is still one of the best
package management systems around.
(1) If I install all of these updates, will I get my installation
to be equivalent to the Feisty Fawn (release version) at about the
release date? Or will I need to install Feisty Fawn (release
version) over my beta installation?
dunno.
(2) Is there a way of telling "Feisty i386-desktop CD beta" not to
install grub? The install CD just went ahead and installed grub
without asking me if I wanted it or not.
i've learned that customization isn't really ubuntu's strong suit.
though i find ubuntu to be great for newbies who don't really know
what their getting except they expect their distro to just work.
all those good things said, i'm still wiping ubuntu off my box, if
not tomorrow night then over the weekend.
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Cocoy Dayao
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own
hardware." --Alan Kay
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