hi all i could probably find an ubuntu specific mailing list to send this to but i know jdub et al will see it here and it may interest the rest of you.
i just tried out the ubuntu live cd on a couple of laptops and i'm very impressed with the distro. very slick desktop layout, all the major apps. only niggly detail i found was maximising a window hides the bottom of it behind the task-switcher. on a compaq armada 7400 it auto-detected everything, down to the X config. it wasn't so good on a compaq presario 1400 where it had a problem detecting or configuring for the video chipset and X was like a photo negative colour wise, extremely dim (not fixed by adjusting screen brightness) and text was illegible due to pixellation. unfortunately i can't test this with the install CD as it isn't my laptop to mess with. i'm definately thinking of switching my debian desktop from unstable across to ubuntu. not sure about braving a dist-upgrade method so i'll probably spring for a new hard disk and start with a fresh install. cheers marty -- Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me. "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam AIM: martysupinecom ICQ: 83760564 Y: marty_supine_com MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
