Well - just writing to say that the last 48 hours have been the most satisfying and successful of all my years as a non techie dumb user using Linux. Ubuntu again this time.
I suddenly developed some hardware problems with my old computer (running dual boot Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog and Windows) and did a quick and dirty inexpensive upgrade of Motherboard, CPU, RAM , HDD and box to an AMD 64 bit with 1 GB RAM and 160 GB SATA HDD (@ Rs 10,000 for the lot) Installed Win XP first and tried to install Ubuntu 6.06 - but the graphical partition manager did not work. So I had (previously downloaded) a CD of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn I think). This was a dream installation. The online upgrades and kde related downloads totalling about 600 MB more were flawless. I had no trouble importing all my email onto the new kmail installation - using the importer (downloaded separately via synaptic) Downloaded and installed Flash player for Youtube videos. Easily modified /etc/fstab to access my usual FAT 32 Windows partition, but I still have not tried accessing a NTFS partition. The installation recognised my (HP 3100) printer/scanner first time and is prinitng and scanning with no sweat on my part. A Bluetooth dongle was recognised first time and connected to my cellphone (Windows Mobile on Moto Q) I mistyped my password for internet banking and locked myself out of my account. But that is my fault. All in all a dream Do I think Ubuntu is dead? Not at all. shiv
