Hi Jason, I took the plunge with Ubuntu myself last night on an old Dell C600 Laptop. All I had to do was insert the CD, choose a few options, type a couple of things, hit enter a couple of times, and 30mins later I was running a bleeding edge distro, 2.6 kernel, Gnome 2.8, etc, etc.
I had to install samba (client tools were installed by default, but not the server) to browse my shares (on a Debian box) using Nautilus. The Network Configuration utility is sweet, makes it very easy to configure your eth/samba/dns without getting your hands dirty. I haven't compiled a kernel on Ubuntu yet, but considering it's essentially Debian I don't see why it would be a problem. Also, I don't see why you'd have any problems rolling your own software. Anyhow, I definitely recommend installing Ubuntu (it's much nicer than running Debian - Sid) and based on what I've seen I'm looking forward to the future releases (eg. X.org 6.8). nullobject On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:16:23 +1000, Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > For those of you who have tried Ubuntu (or Jeff and the other > developers) I have a couple of quick questions before I install it on > some of my machines. > > 1. What is the hardware support like in it, and is it possible to get > the 2.6 series kernel installed ? I ask principally because the AGP > driver I need is only available in the 2.6 kernel AFAIK. > > 2. What is it like for recompiling kernels for specific drivers ? I > have a similar problem to the above with a DVB card that has working > drivers, but the drivers are a kernel patch at the moment. > > 3. Does it have nice easy support for setting up things like NFS and Samba ? > > 4. Do you have to fight with the system to install hand rolled > software and the like ? It seems like you might based on the demo Jeff > gave, but maybe not. > > Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm keen to give ubuntu a go. > > Jason > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
