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Ubuntu installed with ease

Yippee! We’ve got ourselves a real live report on a Linux installation. I love these because a person describing the installation process of a new distro of Linux helps everyone else in the world to prepare for when they take the leap.

Ubuntu is the subject of today’s installation, recorded at mrburnz.org. The author (Mr. Burnz I can only assume) reports:

I have to say I am impressed out how quick and painless it was–definitely the smoothest linux install I’ve done. The only device I will have to set up manually is my wireless card.

Five days later there is a post describing how even the wireless card was automatically prepared:

Turns out Ubuntu did detect my Atheros 802.11 a/b/g card during the install and set up the madwifi drivers. Wow. It is easily the best and simplest installer to date.

If anyone else has installed Ubuntu (or any other distro that was new to them), let me know about it. If you’d like to post the process as an article on Linux is Hard you’ll get full credit and linkbacks.

By: Danger | 03/10/05 | Hardware Support - Distro Installs - Ubuntu | Trackback

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  1. sam
    Comment by sam
    03/11/05 at 1:59 pm

    I installed Ubuntu and had it running for a couple months. It was an excellent distro. (As long as you changed away from the default brown theme….) I switched back to Fedora Core because I wanted the more updated development tools (GCC) and KDE (to test websites in Konqueror). Also, Fedora Core seems to stay more up-to-date; Ubuntu doesn’t push any non-security updates to their servers. (They are still on Firefox 0.9.3 in Warty.) But overall its a great distribution and it was a painless install.

  2. Gary
    Comment by Gary
    03/13/05 at 5:49 am

    An overlooked point in Ubuntu’s favor is that they will send you, free of charge, CD(s) of Ubuntu, simply for the asking. As I’ve managed to entice several friends to start trying Linux, I asked for 10 x86 CDs and 5 AMD 64 CDs. In due course, they were delivered to my Texas residence…from Switzerland.

    THAT is impressive.

    I found Ubuntu easy to install on our two boxes. That it’s a GNOME oriented distribution instead of KDE is, to me, a plus. (That’s not intended to start a KDE-GNOME flamewar…I acknowledge that KDE’s preferred by a lot of folks. My favorite window manager? FluxBox)

    The things that I disliked about Ubuntu will be of little import to the new-to-Linux, and probably are of little actual import to anyone (root access disable, except via console, for example). Overall, a very nice distro.

    Cheers

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