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04-19-2007, 06:14 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Arizona
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| Ubuntu 7.04 Released
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04-19-2007, 06:25 PM
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| And from what I understand Java is finally supported in this distro without requiring voodoo measures.  At work, I'm running an online update but it's taking a very long time, close to 20 hours for a 680Meg download. |
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04-19-2007, 06:38 PM
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| I'm getting it by torrent and it's about 50% done. Maybe another 20 mins. 
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04-19-2007, 07:15 PM
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| Remembering TQ  Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden
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| I'm really satisfied with openSUSE, but maybe I'll run the live CD and see how it fares. I liked Ubuntu quite a bit, before. The package management and updates were nicer in Ubuntu.
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04-19-2007, 09:28 PM
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| Non-expert  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Traveling full time
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| I'm very pleased with Ubuntu. I've got it on 2 machines now and I have been running the beta for a couple of weeks. The way things stand now I will probably transition the rest of the computers to Ubuntu when XP support ends. |
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04-19-2007, 11:23 PM
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| I decided a little while ago that I'd be going to Ubuntu Linux full-time. So in that vein, I upgraded to 7.04 from the 6.10 I just upgraded to last weekend.  Downloading was REALLY slow, it never got above 50 kB/s - most of the time it was stuck at 25 kB/s. Took 11 hours to download. Worked out just fine though! |
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04-20-2007, 01:46 AM
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| I've been using Mepis and I really like it. I did note that Ubuntu 7.04 makes it real easy to download and install the driver for ATI vga. Mepis has a integrated ATI driver installer too. It used to be a real chore to get a ATI card working in linux. 
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04-20-2007, 03:24 AM
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04-20-2007, 08:57 AM
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| Yup. Fiesta Fawn does indeed make using Java considerably easier to install. Voodoo no longer required. Ubuntu is finally in my good graces.  Did a full install at home and the download took under an hour (using torrents). |
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04-20-2007, 08:59 AM
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| Ah, 3MB/s peak. I like broadband.
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04-20-2007, 10:41 AM
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It's usually better than that, though. I peak at about 320 kB/s. So the Ubuntu servers were slow yesterday, no surprise. BTW although there's lots to like about Feisty, both my DVD and CD drives are out of commission - they won't automount and dmesg | tail is giving odd error messages. They worked fine in Edgy. I'm poking around the Ubuntu forums. Unfortunately it looks like I'll be alone in solving the problem - it's not widespread at all. fstab is pretty messed up - it's trying to mount my DVD drive as my CD drive, ignoring my CD drive altogether. It's also set to "noauto". Even when I insert a CD into the DVD drive, the DVD drive doesn't mount - I tried 'mount -a' but nothing. I know which devices these are - DVD drive is /dev/hdc and CD is /dev/hdd but can I mount them? No!  | |
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04-20-2007, 11:50 AM
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| It ended up taking longer, as it started wobbling between 1MB/s and 50kB/s after about 60% done. Flaky shaping (I was using a HTTP download, torrents are usually smoother). Wasn't in a hurry anyway. (I have 100Mbps + VOIP for about $50 US a month. They laid fiber all over the place where I live a year and a half ago. Ethernet plugs in every ap't. Does triple-play, but my TV's busted anyway.)
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04-20-2007, 02:18 PM
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04-20-2007, 02:25 PM
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| But it's still a Beta... At work I'm running 6.10 on a cantankerous Celeron 600 with 8MB of video.
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04-20-2007, 02:45 PM
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