Adios Microsoft!

Hi Steve, on what type of computer have you installed it?

i have too install ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
installning guide wahs realy god
close to 30 min for total install and download missing files
i made one admin acount for update and security only,
when im surfing i use a acount for surf
this acount is seperate frome the admin acount

i must say it works better than windows

Congratulations.

Benoit - I built my pc myself so it's not a brand name. I use an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor and XFX GeForce4 TI4200 video card. I'm running 1.5mb ram. Not cutting edge but it runs well and does everything I need.

Hi Steve. Congratulations for the successful installation. I am using Ubuntu on my laptop as the only system. It works fine for me, however, there are some things I had to "give up". I am very interested in your future experiences - please keep posting. My wife has been using Ubuntu for some time now. It is not a problem at all, as she is not a very complicated user, just surfing web, using skype and email client. No problem at all. The same with my mother in law - I installed Ubuntu on her computer (hehe...) and showed her how to use it. She had no problems since then - but again, she only surfs the web.

Good luck with your new system.
Michal

My installation doesnt alwyas boot. Sometimes it hangs up showing a blank screen. A cold reboot and not messing with my kvm switch during starup seems to help.

John - interesting, I haven't had any issues like that. What version are you running?

Silly question really but would this system run on an Intel Mac Computer? And if you think it's possible, how would I do this?

Hi Gilbert, if you go to www.ubuntu.com the site states it is available for Mac. I know very little about Mac's though so I can't be of much help. Actually my laptop just "retired" about two weeks ago...maybe I should look into a Mac?

Ubuntu is just a debian port, and debian has lots of security issues. though ubuntu is kept up-2-date and debian is not. Ubuntu is flavor of linux for the /\/()()|3, some one with not so much XP in *nix.

If your up to the challenge, and want a more secure OS, that yes you can install KDE, or Gnome on, try out FreeBSD, or Fedora. if you want soem good graphics options and would like to stick with Ubuntu, try to port XGL into your kernel.
you can find videos of XGL on google. It makes Vista look like crap.

anyways, enjoy your New install of Ubuntu. My favorite version is "hoary hedgehog" for Ubuntu, and Debian Sarge ( net install ) for Debain.