> This article is well worth reading if you love Ubuntu. > > It is not particularly favourable, but I think it is typical of what > will be many others in future now that Ubuntu has got a visible place > on many peoples radar. It offers how others see us. Gold dust for > Marketing I suggest.
It's hard - This chap decided to try and run the live CD in 256MB of RAM (and I reckon his laptop graphics would be borrowing a portion of that anyway). So if - (as has been the case in my experience with integrated graphics) his laptop was running on say 196MB of RAM, he is never going to be able to run the Feisty live CD properly. This is something that really needs to be addressed in the installation documents. When installing on a machine with 256MB or less of RAM the user should be recommended to use the alternate install. The cpu overheating message is unfortunate and I imagine if it's such a common fault someone should have a support ticket in about it in any case. I think there is always going to be some scenario where a user attempts to use hardware that isn't yet fully compatible with Ubuntu and this is always going to result in a bad review. Hopefully as Ubuntu becomes more mature hardware compatibility issues will be ironed out. One thing I did find interesting was that the reviewer proffered the comment that he likes Vista. Ironically Vista has major hardware and software compatibilities across the spectrum (especially with older hardware). Realistically I simply think the guy had a bad experience. The article title ... tough to install on laptops should really be ..... tough to install on my ageing HP laptop. Chris -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
