Ubuntu Linux
Following on from my successful attempts trying out Ubuntu Linux, I ordered some Ubuntu Linux CDs. They arrived yesterday, so I tried them out on a laptop and on my desktop PC. What surprised me was the ease with which it worked on a laptop I tried the Live CD on. The Live CD recognised the ethernet internet connection instantly, and so I logged in to GAIM* to send mrBen a message to express my pleasure at this, I then installed it on my own system.
It seems to work quite nicely. It takes longer to boot up than Windows XP, and it doesn't have OpenOffice 2.0 on, but it is quite nice nevertheless. It seems much more polished around the edges than many other variants of Linux that I have tried before. The only thing that really frustrates me is that the music ripper was ripping at 2.0x speed, which is rather slow!
Overall, I give it the thumbs up. I've got 6 spare CD's now...anyone want one?
*If you are reading this in the archives, GAIM was renamed Pidgin in 2007, following a legal dispute. They are the same application.
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