Xubuntu - First Impressions

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I was going to try the above but on boot up last night the system had some problems i.e. no task panels showing. I thought I'd try version 6.06 to see if that would help my wireless problem, so I downloaded it and installed it (seemed ok). On first (and subsequent) boots however it locks up at 'installing hardware drivers'.

Ho hum.

 

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I feel like a mutant. I've had Ubuntu 6.06 running on a laptop, a PC, and a VM and although things have required some tweaking, I never had any major problems getting it up and running. Ubuntu is user friendly *most* of the time as far as I'm able to determine.

 

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In all fairness to xubuntu it's probably my old hardware causing most of the problems in this case! (no pun intended, it's a laptop)

I burnt it at the slowest speed my writer can manage (8x) as I saw there might be problems and as I say it seemed to install ok.

I shall battle on!

 

Why would you want to go backwards in time as far as an OS is concerned? That just seems counterproductive all the way around, especially where Ubuntu/Linux is concerned as that is a much older kernel with a lot less hardware support enabled by default.

It would have probably been pretty easy to figure out why you were having the other problem. I think you used the 10 gauge shotgun approach on a mosquito.

 

On the Ubuntu install disks you can choose to run memtest, and a couple of other diagnostic tools IIRC. You might try those and see if you run into some hardware problems.

 

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Absolutely right Freddy, but there's nothing to lose, only a little time, it's a learning experience and it's fun to boot! (sorry I'm at it again)

 

Yep, thanks, I'll try them when I have a minute, it they don't give me any pointers I'll just reinstall 7.10 and start again.

It's all good fun!

 

I agree that it's all fun, and if you're having fun and learning, that's the most important part.