[Herefordshire] UbuntuLinux FREE CD's avaliable

[Noel McG.]

Like Julian, I too have been seeing various bits about this distro.   I
ordered mine [ just a modest 3 ] last week but as it seems to have to come
from South Africa, unless they have farmed it out to somewhere in the EU, I
am not expecting it to arrive too soon.

Noel.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: [Herefordshire] UbuntuLinux FREE CD's avaliable


> 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
>
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