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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - Desktop Linux Matured

Posted by Zonk on from the hello-distro-my-old-friend dept.

Provataki writes "It seems that Linux on the desktop is getting there, with Ubuntu. Eugenia of OSNews fame wrote a glorifying preview about Ubuntu's next version, dubbed Feisty Fawn. The review talks up the new features, like the restricted drivers/codecs management, easier package management, and good laptop support. The review also lists some of the distro's flaws in the current beta. A good read for those who are curious about what's next for Linux on the desktop. The piece concludes: ' Ubuntu is a distro that obviously has paid attention to detail ... and has found a good middle ground between hard core Linux users and new users from the Windows/OSX land.'"

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  1. problems with ubuntu by 3seas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm now running a system that has two installations of ubuntu on it. 6.06 lts decuided it wasn't going to allow me to log on anymore, so on another drive I installed 6.10 and used the recommended partition sizes. Later it decided it wouldn't let me load xwindows so I was stuck in a shell trying to figure out what going on.

    I had a fat32 partition so to move files between ubuntu and windows, a swao partition, a root partition and a home partition. But something went haywire, the system got confused as to which partition was to be used for what. I got locked out of xwindows because the root partition ran out of space, though I gave it a bit more than it said it needed. Seems it was using the root partition for home too, ignoring the much larger home partition and the fat32 partition had a problem too, I don't recall ATM exactly but it ended up having some files on it but I don't think I was able to access it or something.

    I was able to get xwindows working by deleating some files

    I figured some of this out using dynebolic but eventually decided to just reinstall ubuntu 6.10 and this is where I discovered the home partition wasn't being used at all. I left the fat32 partition and made the home partition and root partition just one partition for root.

    I still haven't dug into trying to fix 6.06 lts, as Its still on the system, as a slave drive.

    Come to think of it, I have another system that has two or three knoppix installs on it, for what ever the reason one stopped working...or maybe it was not having an upgrade from one version to the next without a wiped drive and I didn't want to lose my files... Which is why I haven't just wiped the ubuntu 6.06 lts drive.

    But having two versions of ubuntu stop booting all the way in such a short time had in affect on my fandom of ubuntu.

    As a matter of upgrading a linux system, it seems a clean install is the typical method. And as such there really should be a better way to insure a users files don't get sacrificed (the point of trying to use the home partition.)

  2. OT: Too Old? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In TFA...

    The point of the matter is, I am now older. I am 33 years old and I just don't have the same energy as I used to to deal with stupid issues that they should not be there, or with removal or non-development of conveniences for no good reason.

    ...Eugenia Loli-Quer is claiming that 33 is tool old to be doing some classes of work. Now I have to say that I didn't use unix at all until I was 33 (it was vms and rsx up to then) and I don't plan on slowing down.

    I appreciate the low maintenance nature of ubuntu. But that just liberates time for me to get more hacking done.

    --
    http://michaelsmith.id.au
  3. Can Feisty be installed, though? by paulxnuke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I ran Ubuntu 5 for a while and liked it. That version couldn't be upgraded without a lot of trouble, so I dumped it and planned to clean install v6 (originally 6.06, IIRC.)

    I'm still trying! I've downloaded ISO's twice and the MD5's match; trying to burn one reliably crashes XP's builtin software and several others I've tried on XP and Vista. I was able to make a disc on OSX, and I eventually found a Windows freeware that worked a few times. The CD's (I've made several) self-check OK, but invariably lock up every computer I've tried them on: I've never gotten more than one step past partitioning, or gotten anything else to run for more than a few minutes when booted from the CD. I've tried on several different computers / burners / drives, I've used the GParted live CD to avoid partitioning from the Ubuntu installer, and I've haunted the forums. I just bought a ready made CD and had the exact same result.

    I'd love to try Edgy, but I've given up for now (I don't even have a working Linux box these days.) I guess I'll give Feisty a go when it comes out, but this experience has made me leery of the whole thing: I don't know if I can trust something whose install is that touchy.

  4. THAN not then by quarrelinastraw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    'because it boots faster THAN'

    'needs more THAN 10 gig'