OT Ubuntu 7.10

[redrumloa]

Ubuntu 7.10 is really great, amazing really. I almost never boot into Windows anymore, only for the kids to play a game now and then. If I get off my but and get more familiar with Wine, I won't even need to boot into XP for games.

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BTW this is leaps and bounds over say, SUSE 10. With SUSE 10 I wound myself having to getting my hands dirty in console, which I usually worked everything out, but with a large amount of cursing and such. Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, I've yet found compelled to bang away in a console window. Everything is automated.

[stefcep2]

I used Ubuntu 7.04 but on my system. I did have some stabilty issues.  Maybe it was me as this was the first Linux i ever used.  There is an installation software called "Automatix" which really simplifies the process of getting multimedia eg dvd, mp3, divx, flash to work as these things are not installed out-of-the-box due to licensing restrictions.  A few PC mags now have Linux sections, usually focusing on Ubuntu, and this I found very useful.  I think Ubuntu will probably be the distro that has the greatest chance of getting mainstream success because the parent company has managed to get it installed on new systems from PC vendors eg Dell.  Hardware support in Linux is always going to be behind Windows, but most stuff works, but I'd recommend nvidia-based systems rather than ATI, which now means Intel rather than AMD.

Since then I chanced on PCLinuxOS 07 and I found this to be very intuitive, faster and is probably better for Windows users migrating to Linux than Ubuntu.  Personally I like the KDE desktop that is used by PCLinuxOS over Ubuntu (haven't treid kubuntu

[thanos]

I have upgraded to Unbuntu 7.10.

I am using a cheap USB WIFI adapter.

I used ndiswrapper-utils, installed from the package manager.  This utility allows the use of your windows drivers.  I used the supplied windows 2000 driver.

I also tested my camera, and USB scanner, both items worked well.

I think many of the linux distros have come a long way.  I would recommend trying a live CD of your favourite distro to check it out for yourself.

my $0.02  

[downix]

I have Ubuntu 7.10 on my SPARC here, and it's a joy to run.  If I didn't have my MMO habit, bye-bye x86.