[SLUG] Ubuntu

[Pete]

Thanks Steve

Useful guide. My problem has been with Debian and Ubuntu that Gnome 
installations refuse to communicate with the network even though they are 
installed with 'netinstall'. KDE versions communicate perfectly and so does 
Xfce. I've been on the Debian user mail list for the past four weeks and 
nobody on there has come up with a satisfactory solution. All the usual 
checks have proved positive. Never did get on with Red Hat and was using SuSE 
from version 9 onwards. Until a couple of months ago. I'm now running Xubuntu 
and I love it. Everything so far has compiled perfectly. (famous last words!)
-- 
Regards
Pete Redwood
predwood at phonecoop.coop


On Thursday 31 May 2007 08:10:59 Stephen O'Neill wrote:

>
> I did this a couple of weeks ago as it happens. I bought a laptop and
> have migrated my lamp+svn from FC5 to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
>
> I now wish I'd not bothered with FC5 and installed Ubuntu some 18 months
> ago or whenever it was.
>
> There's plenty of support out there however I found virtually everything
> worked out of the box and the Gnome setup is far better than the one I'd
> been wrestling with in FC5.
>
> One encouraging thing is that a lot of the "Ubuntu Guide" type things on
> the wb say "to do x you need x, y, z" however I sat scratching my head
> as the basic install had already done all that for me.
>
> Apt is debian's package manager and it beats yum/rpm to the canvas in
> the first round - it has so many applications, it's so fast and if you
> type a command that isn't installed in your system it suggests a package
> to install which provides it.
>
> You will need to iron out some niggles as is always the case, I found
> the following guide useful for a number of things and beyond that the
> usual searches came up with plenty of results. This is aided by the
> naming of the releases - rather than searching for "7.04" try "some
> problem or other feisty" and you're almost guaranteed to get a relevant
> solution, brill!
>
> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty
>
> Steve O