Feisty beta gets a big +1 from me
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sat, 03/24/2007 - 12:54.
I put a straight Feisty Ubuntu installation on my fastest machine (1Ghz :roll: ) yesterday. I don’t have to tell you that I’m not a real big fan of Gnome or the default Ubuntu environment, but I have to admit that things are looking very good.
It took a while to get it all in place, but the default partitioning and hardware setup was exceptionally easy to handle. I used the alternate installation (the live CD is a waste to me), and it’s almost step-for-step the same as previous versions. Start to finish was about an hour, with a slight delay here and there while it probed my oversized hard drives.
When it was done, Feisty had configured my Intel PRO 2200BG wireless perfectly, found my modular hard drive, sound card, USB, PCMCIA, DVD+-RW … pretty much everything, which is what I expect for a 7-year-old computer.
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I really like ubuntu in some ways.... It's clever installation CD tries really* hard to make it a nice process. It does work well, even on the weird hardware device I've been installing it on.
What I really wish it had was a switch that you could throw at install time that said:
Would you like this to be a sensible development machine?
Ubuntu does default to installing gcc. That seems ok, except it boggles comprehension that it only installs that!
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