[ale] Is this really Ubuntu?

[Thompson Freeman]

On 10/04/2007 09:31:02 PM, 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?

Ok. Weird. Ubuntu went onto my laptop and another machine with nary a 
hitch. I don't recall a _single_ problem for me.

OTOH, you asked for another distribution. I'm running Fedora Core 6 and 
Fedora 7, again with no special problems noted. You might want to 
search around for a respin of the Fedora 7 (I've seen echos that say 
they exist) to avoid downloading a serious boatload of updates/patches/
fixes/etc. 

FWIW, YMMV, and so forth. Your decision, and I make no warentee about 
any statements above.