sakiZ
11-29-2005, 05:38 PM
Ok, I tried Ubuntu 5.10. I had the disks shipped. This is zero cost, but you have to wait for several weeks for them.
Ubuntu will probably be great for some people. But I hit some snags. It does not work with my serial mouse. It's a special mouse designed for tilting the wrist to avoid carpal tunnel. I will not give it up. Ubuntu DOES work with a generic PS/2 mouse I have for testing purposes. It did find most of my other hardware, including my old Aureal vortex sound card! It did not find my zip drive. It did however, find my external Mad Dog USB DVD-RW drive and placed a "mounted icon" of the DVD on the desktop upon boot up. Good job!!!
But, I could not find any of my partitions on my hard drives however with it's file manager. That's a huge drawback. Newbie to Ubuntu issues? I don't know. Knoppix finds all my partitions. What good is a live CD if you can't find your own HD partitions with it. The file manager seemed rather rudimentary.
The live CD, -- unlike Knoppix, asks you to answer some hardware questions when it boots up. It is also slower on boot up.
Ubuntu while using a very clean attractive interface, is for me -- brought down with it's color -- basic brown. If you like brown, you'll love Ubuntu. I'll pass on brown. I suppose you could change this with a HD install. Is brown trendy now? Why did they pick THAT?
Ubuntu uses Gnome. It's OK. But I like KDE lots better. I like the "glass" features in KDE. :-)
If you like games, Ubuntu comes with a LOT of games, more than the Knoppix Games CD.
There is NO developer stuff on Ubuntu that I could see. I could be wrong about that. This is an end user CD!
In short, I'll stick to my HD install of Knoppix 3.7. I've worked very hard at this install: running it with CrossOver Office 4.2, & thus Photoshop 7. I'm runnng the latest Thunderbird and Firefox (1.5) This OS works with ALL of my hardware now. I've even installed Real Player 10 which works just fine. Why switch?
sakiZ
Ubuntu will probably be great for some people. But I hit some snags. It does not work with my serial mouse. It's a special mouse designed for tilting the wrist to avoid carpal tunnel. I will not give it up. Ubuntu DOES work with a generic PS/2 mouse I have for testing purposes. It did find most of my other hardware, including my old Aureal vortex sound card! It did not find my zip drive. It did however, find my external Mad Dog USB DVD-RW drive and placed a "mounted icon" of the DVD on the desktop upon boot up. Good job!!!
But, I could not find any of my partitions on my hard drives however with it's file manager. That's a huge drawback. Newbie to Ubuntu issues? I don't know. Knoppix finds all my partitions. What good is a live CD if you can't find your own HD partitions with it. The file manager seemed rather rudimentary.
The live CD, -- unlike Knoppix, asks you to answer some hardware questions when it boots up. It is also slower on boot up.
Ubuntu while using a very clean attractive interface, is for me -- brought down with it's color -- basic brown. If you like brown, you'll love Ubuntu. I'll pass on brown. I suppose you could change this with a HD install. Is brown trendy now? Why did they pick THAT?
Ubuntu uses Gnome. It's OK. But I like KDE lots better. I like the "glass" features in KDE. :-)
If you like games, Ubuntu comes with a LOT of games, more than the Knoppix Games CD.
There is NO developer stuff on Ubuntu that I could see. I could be wrong about that. This is an end user CD!
In short, I'll stick to my HD install of Knoppix 3.7. I've worked very hard at this install: running it with CrossOver Office 4.2, & thus Photoshop 7. I'm runnng the latest Thunderbird and Firefox (1.5) This OS works with ALL of my hardware now. I've even installed Real Player 10 which works just fine. Why switch?
sakiZ