Ubuntu 11.04 and the Unity Desktop
Since 1995, with my first install of Debian from 14 (or 16, can't remember) 1.4MB floppy disks, I have used many different Linux distributions. Until now, I've not even tried to use Ubuntu.
Installing:
I grabbed the Alpha-2 CD from Ubuntu's CD repository. I chose the x86 install simply because this isn't a hardware test. My friend Steven Rosenberg already did one of those, if you're interested.
Ubuntu comes as a LiveCD. That is, you can run a full Ubuntu system directly from the CD. So you can "try before you buy", and even though loading programs will be slower from the CD than from a fixed disk, it's a great way to see if a default Ubuntu install will give you what you are looking for.
I'll just install it, since the usefulness of LiveCDs is beyond the scope of this article.
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