[wellylug] Ubuntu Linux

[Ian Sterling]

> I just downloaded and installed the final release of Warty Warthog
> Ubuntu Linux.

YAY!  You're on the path to true enlightenment... or something like that. ;)

> Worked all very well, even on my notebook. Takes a bit to get used to
> the defaut 'Chocolate' theme (never been a big fan of brown).

Yeah, I'd like it if they had other colour schemes as well.  I like
the "Human" theme, but it needs more colours.

Oh, and once you dist-upgrade the system, you'll get an even more brown scheme.

> It has an extremely automated install but the scary part is the default
> of wiping your entire disk as the partitioning setup.

It does give you the option in the partitioner.  It's a weird
partitioner, but it does work.  My biggest problem is that I sliced up
a partition six ways to make for a RAID5 using 9g logical partitions. 
Wasn't able to configure it using their configurator yet though. :-/ 
One of these days I'll figure it out. heh.  Just too lazy at the
moment.

In all honesty though, if I wasn't so entrenched with my Gentoo
machine, I'd probably switch.  It's a decent distro, and the GNOME
desktop included with it works.  I did have a severe problem after
installing KDE (VI refused to work), but that was easily resolved by
uninstalling kde and reinstalling VI.  I will say, it's the fastest
GNOME desktop I've used.