Few days back I was a hard core Fedora distribution fan. I was not ready to look at any other distribution and took pride in writing spec files for rpm. ( I am not disowning it, I still don't mind working on a fedora/redhat distribution). But for the past few days I am head over heals with Ubuntu. Here is the story..My first laptop __ever__(Dell Inspiron 6400), bought out my hard earned money. The Dell package is little heavy. I lug the package home at around 8.30PM. Unpacked the laptop, booted into Vista(preinstalled crap..), installed ubuntu in 15 to 20 minutes. It was love at first sight. I wanted to readjust my disk partitions and so reinstalled it couple of times until it was satisfactory. Logged into gnome.. and guess what, it listed all the wireless networks in my area.. I was just taken aback.. This just exceeded my expectations.. And then speakers.. they worked too.. And then package installation .. got around package distribution commands after a few tries(now have to write a package of mine so I understand things better- Ofcourse Debian style).
So what makes it better
1. Good collection of packages
2. Packages working out of the box(So damn neat)
4 months still with Ubuntu and going strong
Installations: Laptop, Office Desktop(Much to the irritation of my manager ;))
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6 comments:
ah, i am finally going to buy that 140g hard disk and i know what will keep me busy over the next few days! you write spec files at work?
Get a transcend 160 GB disk.. Enjoy madi..
Spec files.. in office NO!!! gone are those days..
I cannot decide if i love/hate ubuntu. I've got my USB adsl connection working just like that, which is great, i am jumping around now but takes the fun out of getting things done
I am doing apt-get after apt-get after apt-get. I'm lovin it.
apt-get kicks lawt of things around.. I find package manager better in debian based distribution than rpm based. They run a lot faster..
Whoa...a girl g33k
that's a rarity :)
randomly bumped into your blog while searching for the phone #s for some dealers in Ritchie.
And I have to admit I couldnt help but let out a small chuckle at the sight of a girl drooling over gizmos...
You are in august company, I do it all the time :D
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