I’ve been playing around with the new combined install/live Ubuntu 6.06 CD and am jumping on the bandwagon and am going to talk about this extremely popular linux distrubution.
Although I couldn’t get the live CD to support my resolution of 1440×900 I still loved it. The user interface has been improved since the last release and is now slightly shiny and orange. I like this. The icons have also had a revamp which I do like but you can feel that it’s still Ubuntu. You can know run the hard drive installation from the live view of the OS and the installation process has been improved vastly by being layed out better and providing fewer options but with better descriptions. I’ve previously talked about how the installation of Ubuntu has caused hassel for me, especially during the hard drive partitioning, but this version is so much better in this section. I’ll definately be installing the Ubuntu desktop OS when I free up enough space or come into posession of a new hard drive. Hint, anyone?
Besides the desktop release of this distrubution I also found a server release – news to me. This is basically the Ubuntu distribution pre-installed with LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP). Now, I’d be really interested in this – if only I had a spare computer – to serve as my server because it’s much safer on Linux than Windows. Plus you get added Linux-ocity. I’ve ordered my CDs for this version, have you?
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