Re: Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience

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Author: Joseph Sinclair
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience
Ubuntu is Debian without the headaches (and working on AMD64, Debian still won't say when they'll officially support AMD64, although they do officially support Itanium, which sells about .01% as many chips).

That said, the primary advantage of Ubuntu is the "it-just-works" issue. For most people, particularly so-called "typical" users, Ubuntu works without hassles, and doesn't force them to learn a bunch of new stuff.
You can move a user from Windows to Ubuntu almost without them noticing. I upgraded my older sister's laptop with Ubuntu and it took her 2 days to realize it wasn't Windows.
Now she gets irritated when she has to run Windows (dual-boot) because her employer has custom software that won't run on Linux.

If I had more time, or a spare machine or two, I might run a couple other Distro's (like Suse 10.1, gotta love Compiz/XGL), but for now I need a system that just doesn't require much attention.

==Joseph++

Wagner, Steven G wrote:
> I'm starting to think that Ubuntu is like the windoze of Linux...other than
> being really, really, really easy can anyone tell me why it's better than,
> say, Gentoo, SUSE or Debian? Does it come with magic drivers or something
> you can't get with other distros?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Garland
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 8:06 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience
>
>
> Small contribution for those Ubuntu users thinking of upgrading to 6.06.
>
> Short story -- I went thru the process today. It was completely
> painless -- it worked perfectly. The upgrade has some really nice
> software upgrades including an upgrade to Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird
> 3.5. Do it!
>
> Longer story -- I was mostly a Mandrake user for several years (I still
> have a Mandrake machine), but recently I built a new AMD64 machine and
> installed the 5.10 -- 64 bit version of Ubuntu (thx for the prize at the
> dev meeting!). I was a little disappointed since 5.10 had a very old
> version of Firefox. Of course, compared to Mandrake the combination of
> apt and the graphical counterparts, Ubuntu is so, so, so nice to keep
> updated with the latest software. After several nightmares with
> Mandrake upgrades, I was apprehensive, but the major upgrade from 5.10
> to 6.06 didn't disappoint. I can honestly say that this was the easiest
> major upgrade of an OS/Applications ever in my life -- just kicked it
> off, kept working away for about 30 minutes while the downloads were
> going, and then one reboot, and back to business. Sweet.
>
> In case no one noticed, this is a place where Linux has a major lead on
> MS right now -- yes, you can get 64bit Windows, but try to find device
> drivers and applications -- it's tough. On top of that, the idea of
> installing a major OS upgrade and having it automatically upgrade all
> the apps -- well, that just can't happen on Windows. Anyway, many thanks
> to all the folks that made this one fleeting moment of software euphoria
> possible :)
>
> Jeff
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