[ale] Is this really Ubuntu?

[James P. Kinney III]

Sounds like a bad download/burn or it just doesn't like your hardware
(it happens).

As another person pointed out, since you upgrade your base system only
once every 3 years or so, you need to look at distros with a longer life
span than Ubuntu (and fedora!). OpenSuse, CentOS and Debian (already
suggested) have a life in the field that is comparable to what you need.

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:31 -0400, Alexander Barton wrote:
> About every three years I replace my home desktop with the latest and 
> greatest.  I've heard wonderful tings about Ubuntu.  This time around I 
> though I'd give it a try.  So I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Desktop.  But...
> 
> This has got to be alpha software.  I managed to crash the installer a 
> handful of times just partitioning the drives with the expert mode 
> partitioner.  Hint: don't set a partition type to "dont_use". The 
> drop-down box for mount points was empty half the time.  Even the dialog 
> buttons were flaky -- they ignored clicks unless one first moused out 
> of, then back into the button.  I could go on and on.
> 
> Surely I must have downloaded the beta version or something like that. 
> Perhaps this is a Microsoft dirty trick?
> 
> So, can anyone recommend another distribution?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander
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