Ubuntu-anyone use?

[S.Vashti]

I'm starting a trial month of VM Fusion on my iMac, hoping to run Windows XP and Ubuntu, and see if I can work on a PC from my Mac (generally only need to check browsers for browser issues when I develop or change my client's sites). Does anyone here have opinions about the latest (or last) release of Ubuntu? I've only run RedHat Linux in the past, and didn't find it much use except again for the browser checking issue.

Can't actually seem to download the latest version at this time in anything under 5 hours, it seems there's a rush to get that on all the servers I've tried.

[curses]

I installed Feisty awhile back as I heard its wireless support was top notch, but I gave it up for another release of SuSE since I had the same issues with it as I have any other distro. And I still can't get the wireless working, but that's because now I'm lazy since I dual boot.

Is there a bittorrent option? That usually goes by faster in my experience.

Sit, Ubuntu! Sit!

Good dog.

[Ensign Steve]

I've not found Ubuntu to be any easier or more difficult than any other distro, and I also don't find their wireless support to be all that it's cracked up to be. That is to say, it's not any worse than any other distro, but not really better either. Wow. What a pointless post. Sorry!

[S.Vashti]

Originally Posted by curses

I installed Feisty awhile back as I heard its wireless support was top notch, but I gave it up for another release of SuSE since I had the same issues with it as I have any other distro. And I still can't get the wireless working, but that's because now I'm lazy since I dual boot.

Is there a bittorrent option? That usually goes by faster in my experience.

Don't I have to have a client for bittorrent? And with wireless, what are you speaking of-bluetooth, or ethernet?

[curses]

yeah, you can get something like azureus for OSX to download the torrent. That links straight to the OSX .dmg file.

Also just thought about it..not sure if this'll even matter much, but I think Ubuntu uses .deb rather than .rpm files.

I'm meaning wireless NIC. I don't have any bluetooth devices to test out the reliability.

[viscousmemories]

I have Feisty on a home server, but as I mainly use it as a fileserver and testing platform I feel it could just as well be any distro.

[S.Vashti]

Originally Posted by curses

yeah, you can get something like azureus for OSX to download the torrent. That links straight to the OSX .dmg file.

Also just thought about it..not sure if this'll even matter much, but I think Ubuntu uses .deb rather than .rpm files.

I'm meaning wireless NIC. I don't have any bluetooth devices to test out the reliability.

Thanks for that link. I've just looked into bittorrent, and I just don't want that sort of filesharing on my computer. I think it may break my contract with my service provider, and I've no incentive to use it, since I don't download music I don't pay for, nor watch movies I don't pay for. And my downloading is fast enough as it is, for the most part. Using it just to get in on the latest update of ubuntu is probably not worth my while. I can just wait to install it when the frenzy for downloading the new distro dies back a bit. Anyway, it's good to know about the problem of wireless peer-sharing with this Linux flavor, but don't think I'd be using it for that.

[Joshua Adams]

My laptop has Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP. The wireless (and basically everything) worked right out of the box with Ubuntu, but I needed help setting it up on XP.

Then its package manager* mysteriously stopped working--every single package is considered dependent on some random thing with firefox in the name, and that particular package was broken and couldn't be fixed for whatever reason I can't recall. I mostly use it to ssh into somewhere else now.


* It is true that Ubuntu uses Debian packages, but I think there is something called alien which converts to/from rpm, and you can install rpm package manager if you want.

[seebs]

I am using Feisty (7.04) quite happily, both under vmware and for some stuff at work. It doesn't offend me much.

[Kyuss Apollo]

[viscousmemories]

Brilliant.