Text 914, 67 rader
Skriven 2007-02-02 02:48:00 av Fireball (635.dove-nix)
    Kommentar till text 907 av Sam Alexander (628.dove-nix)
Ärende: Re: Ubuntu 6.10
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 > Hey Guys --

 > As I've noted before I've used Linux for almost a decade now, but three 
 > years ago I moved my primary GUI system at home to OSX with my server 
 > continuing to run Slackware.  This setup has worked pretty good, but I'm 
 > really getting itchy for Linux on the desktop.

 > Last week I pulled my old Linux workstation outta mothballs and installed 
 > Ubuntu 6.10, and I'm hooked.  I still use OSX for doing DVD authoring and 
 > burning, MS Office, and Photoshop work, but outside of that, I've moved all 
 > else to my Ubuntu system.  


I've used Kubuntu with great success. I'm not a Gnome fan, so it worked pretty 
well for me. I used it for a while to learn some programing on. Oh, and I've 
also used it when my Win2K box crashed and I couldn't find my CD and/or key. 
Works great as a repair disk as well!

 > Here's the specs on this box:
 > Gigabit Motherboard with Dual Pentium III-1Ghz processors
 > 512 Megs/RAM (PC-133)
 > 40 Gig HD
 > Matrox G400 dual-head video card
 > 3Com 3C509 NIC 


Nice! I had a P-133 running CentOS and it ran like a champ. The only problem I 
had was the old trident video card, so I replaced it with an old S3 I had 
laying around. I currently have Ubuntu Server edition (no gui) running on an 
old laptop that was given to me. I say "old" loosely because it's not really 
all that old. It's a 1.7Ghz AMD mobile processor. I have a dual processor 
P3-600 waiting for me to put it to use. lol!

 > I built this system about 5+ years ago to run Linux, and back then, Red Hat 
 > flew like the wind on it.  I'm impressed though that Ubuntu runs pretty 
 > much just as fast as RH did back then, which only speaks to the greatness 
 > of Linux.  Try putting Windows Vista on a system like this... 


I agree. Vista probably would run, but you wouldn't get any of the eye-candy 
or special features to it.

 > Anyway, i'm quite impressed.  I had to jump through hoops to get Citrix 
 > loaded as I remote into work, but now that it's up, I can connect to my 
 > work servers more easily then I can on OSX or Windows.  Also VNC works 
 > great to remote into my OSX box, so no need for KVM switch.


I use VNC a lot from work to both my BBS and main system boxes. It's really 
hard to beat the price as well. :)

 > Just some thoughts... I'm VERY impressed with the package manager, and thus 
 > far 100% of the packages I've installed have worked.  I haven't had as much 
 > luck installing from source though as many libraries commonly installed 
 > with other distros don't appear to be hear -- but that's what apt-get's 
 > there for I guess.

I like apt-get, although if you don't know the group or name of the package 
right off hand, it can be a pain. I must admit that Synaptic is a very nice 
package manager.

Fireball

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