[Herefordshire] UbuntuLinux FREE CD's avaliable

[Julian Robbins]

Hi

If you have not come across it before, Ubuntu is a new Linux 
distribution that is very, very promising. I already run it as my main 
Linux of choice at home ! (displacing my Mandrake 10.1 which never 
seemed to work quite right).

Why should you consider Ubuntu ?

1) It's based on Debian, which most Linux users would suggest is the 
most stable, usable system.

2) It uses apt-get in all its glory, an extremely easy to use 
Packagement Management & Update system, to grab more than 10000 packages 
down from cmd line or from a simple but powerful GUI. Bit like urpmi or 
yum, but much better. You can even upgrade the all of your distro from 
here !!

3) Where Debian always got me and most others was its old-fashioned 
installation routine. Although, Debian's installer has improved a lot of 
late, Ubuntu still has an easier more straightforward text based system.

4) The default package choice is excellent, with firefox the main 
browser (ver 1.0PR), evolution and thunderbird as possible mail clients.

5) It's based on the brand new Gnome 2.8. I used to always go for KDE, 
since vers 1.0 of KDE, but to be honest after trying out Ubuntu I really 
like Gnome as I can get the job done so much better and faster. The 
fonts are so well presented, in fact the presentation generally through 
the distro, is very polished, more so than any I've seen.

6) It's fast - my 1.1 GHz Athlon feels like XP @ at around 2.5 GHz !! 
Everything runs very snappily.

7) It's free, and will remain free. You can even get paid support if you 
wish.

I get the feeling that Ubuntu will become one of the major players in 
linux, especially on the desktop. The beauty is that as its Debian 
based, it is also such a good choice as a server platform too.


If anyone's interested, I have ordered 10 cd's from them (they're 
available FREE but only till TODAY !!!). Even the postage is FREE !! 
www.ubuntulinux.org

Don't know when I will get them but will bring them along to a future 
LUG meeting.

Hopefully will download the CD based version (knoppix like) so that we 
can see it up and running on Thursday at HCT.

Hope we'll have a good turn out Thursday, as Box as excelled himself 
with getting such a good venue.

We have a couple of new members recently signed up that I hope will be 
able to attend Thursday. For any new members, please feel free to 
introduce yourself via the list, with a little about what you want out 
of Linux/Open source Software, and what you hope to get out of the LUG.

We were all new to Linux at some time, and the Herefordshire LUG tries 
to be helpful to EVERYONE whatever their experience, skill level and 
background.

See you all Thursday,

Cheers

Julian