[Sussex] Brief introduction and Ubuntu question...

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Geoffrey

Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
>
> Welcome!

Ta very much!

>
> We use it as the basis of our application on which our business is
> based and on several desktops.  We have validated the platform for use
> in the clinical trials industry. We trust it implicitly.
>
> We migrated from Debian a few months back as Debian release cycle has
> become a major issue.  An alternative was to use Debian sid - we
> though Ubuntu's stable release was better than Debian's unstable.
>

Yeah, it's an unfortunate side-effect of woody's stability I suppose.  I
think they'll eventually have to speed up the stable branch a little if
only to support newer server hardware technologies.  At the moment for
example, I can't get woody to support SATA drives, without some serious
kernel tinkering.

>>modprobing my sound card driver (NeoMagic 256AV).  Would be very cool if
>>Ubuntu likes iPods too!!
>
>
> Yup.  The Hoary release is due very soon (already running it on my
> desktop here) and it has everything you need.

HOORAH!!!!!

>
> Not personally, but the Terminal Server Client is installed under
> Gnome so should be no problem.

DITTO!!!!

>
>
>>Any thoughts?
>
>
> Go for it..
>

Righto!  Here I go...

Cheers
--
Ronan

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