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All this perfect news from perfect Ubuntu! Ubuntu Love, Ubuntu Porn, iUbuntu.

I am so lucky to have this best distro ever running perfectly on everything I own.

Yes...apparently Ubuntu brings peace and happiness and perfection to all...maybe I should switch all my gentoo boxes over, then my life will be perfect! No more pills to take, I'll understand everything I read instantly, I'll get all perfect grades...

CP,

I hope you understand the consternation your words will inflict on the unwary. Please label youR comments as either [humor || sarcasm || declaration of war || (whatever, but not serious)]. Do you wish to be known as the resident troll? No, never - just what I thought.

I have been using Ubuntu pretty consistently, however, even now i would never characterize my experience and trouble free or perfect. More like good enough and certainly improved with the later distributions.

Please for humanities sake (and throw in* the children for added weight). BUT I am so tired of reading any problem with a sh*tty Ubuntu installation can be solved perfectly with another Slackware diatribe (or better yet Gentooooo).

Think before you speak and remember only I have the power to kill some threads in their tracks with a few choice words. And sometimes even I fail. Sad but true.

:Your Buddy Txt. (aka YBT)

* or out for less harassment

> BUT I am so tired of reading any problem with a sh*tty Ubuntu installation can be solved perfectly with another Slackware diatribe (or better yet Gentooooo).

You mean it can't? There goes another cherished illusion. Do you enjoy killing dreams, Txt?

Yeah, frankly I'll never understand the Ubuntu bashing. I mean, God forbid that Linux actually achieve some success.

I have to say, I'm actually impressed with Ubuntu... well EEEbuntu, anyway, and so too is the person I installed it for on their older laptop.

TxtEdMacs

Any bad installation of Ubuntu can be solved simply by installing Slackware...

No, wait! :-)

OMG Tracyanne likes something besides Mandriva. **faint** bring beer...quickly....

You don't compute with the Linux you want. You compute with the Linux you have.

TC: Hot part of the year downunder, TA may be spending too much time out in the chook coop.

Yeah, that must be it, heat got to me.

It's 8.10, and I haven't found anything about it I dislike particularly, except perhaps the security aspects of how sudo is used. Otherwise, in the 8.10 iteration it seems pretty solid on the hardware it's running on.

Running mythbuntu 8.10.

Mostly like it, even if the hi-def Nvidia video (for unknown reasons) seems to have taken a step backward from 8.04, and I like to have killed myself figuring out how to get every last trace of the XFCE panel to disappear while watching recordings and TV.

Oh -- and the crappy 32 bit version of flash, but I was able to upgrade that pretty easily.

bitch moan bitch moan.

Here chook chook chook!

Quoting:I haven't found anything about it I dislike particularly, except perhaps the security aspects of how sudo is used.

The installer* offers an option whether you want a sudo-based no-root setup or a regular system with no sudo and a real root account. It's probably also possible to change this after installation but I don't know how.

* Maybe just the alternate install CD

Carla, i want you to go outside in the yard and say that.... Oh that's right you live on a farm.... How many chooks have you got?

Quoting:It's probably also possible to change this after installation but I don't know how.

sudo passwd root

:)

At least that's what I did on the Ubuntu server install I did last year (set one up for the teacher to test out SchoolTool on for a bit).

@techiem2: You also need to reconfigure sudo so it uses the root password and not the users password.

Mint has been doing that root/sudo thing for a long time. Now if they will fix the bugs that Clem and Mahn (from Ultimate Ubuntu) have squashed,...they might actually need to crow and grow. Some thought I'd be the last to say it but the Ultimate editions, both 1.9 and 2.0 (8.04 and 8.10) are rock solid and extremely stable. Case on point....The broadcom 43xx still has to be massaged with fwcutter and such none sense in Ubuntu...Mint and Ultimate 2.0 had me connected via wireless before the panel was finished loading.

BTW...I had the pleasure of meeting Robbie Williamson from Ubuntu a few weeks ago. He lives here in Austin. Really nice guy. Gave us a server that probably merits it's own zip code.

h