Installed Ubuntu

[dagibbs]

I downloaded and installed Ubuntu (7.10) to my home machine, dual-boot with Windows. Mostly the whole process went pretty smoothly, the only thing that took a bit of work was trying to figure out how to get grub to default back to booting Windows rather than Linux. The documentation was not clear, I'm used to better man pages, and there was mention of a configuration file but no information as to where it might live (yay for the power of find) and at best vague information on how to get it to do what I wanted. Luckily, my Unix experience came through and I invoked the powers of find and vi to triumph!

Now, the real question is how much will I use it. We'll see.

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm old school, too.

[eviljohn.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the fold, brother. I have two machines, on my desk; an Ubuntu box and XP (and KVM switch). I'm considering on soon doing away totally with the XP box. I can easily use Wine and VMware if I'm desperate for a Windows app.

[bytowneboy.livejournal.com]

I tried installing Ubuntu a couple years back... unfortunately my Linux-Fu wasn't strong enough to get it to play nice with my wireless network card. Microsoftication ensued.

I really did like everything else about it. The UI was beautiful.

I particularly liked the typing tutor on which I learned to use a Dvorak keybord!

Hope you're well!!

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to worry about wireless as I'm working with a desktop that's plugged in to my router.

I am well, thanks.