Ubuntu
I am currently downloading Chackra for testing, since the previous version had some glitches with the Grub and partitioning. It is going to take more than one hour for the last 100 MB on a holiday evening (Tamil and Sinhala New Year) in Sri-Lanka (we have a super highway, electronically speaking, thanks to Telecom). While waiting is painful on a holiday after dinner, let me pen down few thoughts about Ubuntu in general and few specifics about Debian Linux.
Debian is the God Father of Linux. its latest 504 has 35 CDS for download and first CD I downloaded has a corrupt file unfortunately.
You can get my point, even a Linux Addict like me get put off by simple incorrigible inconveniences like slow speed and corrupt files.
So me trying to convert you to Debian is simply improper but remember it is the God Father.
If you want to enter the Inner Circle of Linux, you must have at least the first 7 of the 35 CDS available for download.
Remember that Debian spawned the Ubuntu Flavour to Linux.
My grouse with Ubuntu is and was that the desktop version does not have the Root Permission at install.
Coming from Redhat lineage this put me off completely when Ubuntu came to the scene. It did not have a server version too.
I was vocal then and this has been rectified now.
Beauty of Ubuntu is that it spawned numerous other beauties like gOS.3.1-gadgets, Linux Mint and Super OS.
I will be writing on Super OS soon.
So all what I write about the three mentioned above applies to Ububtu barring few missing software like Skype and Flash.
There is another problem with Ubuntu.
Since many are accessing their site the download speed is slow. I downloaded the version 10 but had trouble with version 9.
I had to resort to the inevitable for asking a copy form their home site.
They promptly did that including a copy of server and Kububtu.
Kububtu is superb!
Thanks to all the guys and girls at Ububtu for all what they do for the Linux Community.
Debian is the God Father of Linux. its latest 504 has 35 CDS for download and first CD I downloaded has a corrupt file unfortunately.
You can get my point, even a Linux Addict like me get put off by simple incorrigible inconveniences like slow speed and corrupt files.
So me trying to convert you to Debian is simply improper but remember it is the God Father.
If you want to enter the Inner Circle of Linux, you must have at least the first 7 of the 35 CDS available for download.
Remember that Debian spawned the Ubuntu Flavour to Linux.
My grouse with Ubuntu is and was that the desktop version does not have the Root Permission at install.
Coming from Redhat lineage this put me off completely when Ubuntu came to the scene. It did not have a server version too.
I was vocal then and this has been rectified now.
Beauty of Ubuntu is that it spawned numerous other beauties like gOS.3.1-gadgets, Linux Mint and Super OS.
I will be writing on Super OS soon.
So all what I write about the three mentioned above applies to Ububtu barring few missing software like Skype and Flash.
There is another problem with Ubuntu.
Since many are accessing their site the download speed is slow. I downloaded the version 10 but had trouble with version 9.
I had to resort to the inevitable for asking a copy form their home site.
They promptly did that including a copy of server and Kububtu.
Kububtu is superb!
Thanks to all the guys and girls at Ububtu for all what they do for the Linux Community.
