Ambitious indeed [LWN.net]

Ambitious indeed

Posted May 12, 2005 7:50 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899)
In reply to: Ambitious indeed by alspnost
Parent article: Goals for the Ubuntu 'Breezy' Release

If they achieve even half of this, I think we can say that 2006 really *will* be the year of Linux on the desktop :-)

....making it the 7th (or so) consecutive year of Linux on the desktop :-P

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Installed yesterday.

Posted May 12, 2005 9:18 UTC (Thu) by penguinroar (guest, #14460) [Link]

Actually installing Ubuntu was the easiest install i have ever made on any OS. Every single hardware just worked, camera, usb stick, mp3 player, printer you name it. The repo is impressive and has an enormous amount of software if one enables the full repos through for eg. synaptic. The only tweak i did was to get tv-out on nvidias propriatary driver.

Ubuntu is very much ready for daily desktop use, in some areas its easier than windows with ubuntu since you actually can change usb port for a hardware without reinstalling the driver ;D

Installed yesterday.

Posted May 12, 2005 15:36 UTC (Thu) by gomadtroll (guest, #11239) [Link]

And it does all that in 64bit also, nice work.

Greg

Installed yesterday.

Posted May 12, 2005 21:40 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]

I would agree with the installation, and for my own use, it's highly recommended, but I have a few gripes with it (or rather "Linux on the Desktop") that makes me a bit sceptical.

I recently tried, as an experiment, to install Ubuntu on a friend of mine's laptop. Although the installation was pretty smooth, getting MP3 and Java and so on to work is probably more than most "dumb" users can handle. Xine failed miserably in trying to play her *cough* pirated *cough* movies, so I had to install mplayer and all the codecs along with it, and Totem was really annoying the shit out of me (not working well either and crashing), so that went out as well. Tried setting rhythmbox up as much as possible to mimick Winamp, but installed Beep Media Player just in case, and Open Office as well.
All in all, a pretty close match to what she is used to with Windows, but it was just too very much different for her, and I must admit I felt a bit disappointed with some of the hurdles we had in installing it (all the mandatory comments about suspend and Linux and such aside). I had high hopes for the experiment, but it did leave me wanting for a more integrated and working-out-of-the-box desktop Linux.
Ubuntu is (from what few distros I've tried recently) by far the one that is closest in achieving this, but it's just not quite there yet. Reading their goals for Breezy Badger has my hopes up high though.

Installed yesterday.

Posted May 15, 2005 5:22 UTC (Sun) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890) [Link]

If you have suspend or hibernate bugs, please file them in bugzilla. Hibernate should be working fully with Hoary, and you should generally be able to expect Suspend to work with Breezy.