Cleon
King of the Pod People
So I'm posting this via Ubuntu LiveCD, which I've never used before. Neat distro, all in all.
I decided to pop this in, because for whatever reason Windows' internet connection dies periodically (2-3 times a day), I haven't been able to fix it, so I got pissed off and decided to run off this for a while "just because." (Incidentally, if anyone knows why this happens, please let me know. Once the connection dies, existing connections still run--such as if I'm connected to IRC, or have a bittorrent running, etc. I tried resetting the winsock by using "netsh winsock reset" and rebooting, but it still happens. *grumble*)
First impressions of Ubuntu:
The liveCD didn't recognize my USB optical mouse, which mildly annoys me.
The network connection fired up immediately, as it should, but the initial connection was rather slow. I'm not sure why that is, actually, but everything is working ok now so I can't really complain.
Ubuntu detected my hardware a lot better than SuSe 9 did. When I installed SuSe, I had to fiddle with a number of settings--mainly monitor/video card stuff and the network. No big headache, but X Windows never *did* use all the monitor real estate. Ubuntu, however, worked straight out on all fronts.
I just popped a DVD into the drive; Totem movie player started right up, but generated an error when trying to play it--possibly due to copy protection, I'm not sure. But even though I exited from the app, it still tried to access the drive and won't let me open to try a non-copy-protected DVD.
I just tried a non-copy-protected DVD, and it still won't play--says it can't find a decoder for it. Hrm.
All in all, I like it. Every Linux distro has it's quirks, so I'm not real worried about it. One of these days I'll try Ubuntu on an actual hard drive--running an OS off a CD is faster than I expected, but still pretty slow.
I decided to pop this in, because for whatever reason Windows' internet connection dies periodically (2-3 times a day), I haven't been able to fix it, so I got pissed off and decided to run off this for a while "just because." (Incidentally, if anyone knows why this happens, please let me know. Once the connection dies, existing connections still run--such as if I'm connected to IRC, or have a bittorrent running, etc. I tried resetting the winsock by using "netsh winsock reset" and rebooting, but it still happens. *grumble*)
First impressions of Ubuntu:
The liveCD didn't recognize my USB optical mouse, which mildly annoys me.
The network connection fired up immediately, as it should, but the initial connection was rather slow. I'm not sure why that is, actually, but everything is working ok now so I can't really complain.
Ubuntu detected my hardware a lot better than SuSe 9 did. When I installed SuSe, I had to fiddle with a number of settings--mainly monitor/video card stuff and the network. No big headache, but X Windows never *did* use all the monitor real estate. Ubuntu, however, worked straight out on all fronts.
I just popped a DVD into the drive; Totem movie player started right up, but generated an error when trying to play it--possibly due to copy protection, I'm not sure. But even though I exited from the app, it still tried to access the drive and won't let me open to try a non-copy-protected DVD.
I just tried a non-copy-protected DVD, and it still won't play--says it can't find a decoder for it. Hrm.All in all, I like it. Every Linux distro has it's quirks, so I'm not real worried about it. One of these days I'll try Ubuntu on an actual hard drive--running an OS off a CD is faster than I expected, but still pretty slow.
