Ubuntu for a newbie?

[yeoman]

I've got some travel coming up so I thought I'd learn Ubuntu. I've never run Ubuntu before and haven't followed the various iterations and source of virtual disk that run under VMWare Fusion 3.1.0 (will this work). Any pointers much appreciated, TIA.

[bazookaman]

I just installed it on an old IBM t41 I dug up. Still playing with it. It's kind of cool. I'll probably look into re-purposing it for my daughter to use so my goal will be to find ubuntu kid software to put on it.

[Jimmypoo]

I have found, though it's been at least 18 month, fully configured virtual machines of Ubuntu, on IBM's
site - where they seem to be a real champion for virtualization.

If you haven't made one, that might be a good place to look.

This may not be THE link - but it's on the right path.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydev...ce?lang=en

There is an "appliance" to download - I'd toss mine your way if I knew where it was. I played with it, but
decided I'd probably, in all honesty, not have a use for it - not when I can still run Tiger on ancient G3s.

[Tofer]

I think you'll like it. It's the main OS on my desktop at work, and I think it's great. They've really improved the visual aspects of Linux, and it's a pretty powerful environment. Have fun!

[kap]

Tofer wrote:
I think you'll like it. It's the main OS on my desktop at work, and I think it's great. They've really improved the visual aspects of Linux, and it's a pretty powerful environment. Have fun!

:agree:
:agree: :agree:

I have been using Ubuntu since its 8.0 x on my 14 inch R61 ThinkPad Lenovo laptop. It has been running beautifully. The only minor pain is to find drivers for apps ... still trying to figure out which csh to download/install for my newly acquired Brother HL 2270WD.

[decay]

a very pretty variation: Linux Mint

http://www.linuxmint.com/

[Jimmypoo]

I've got a Gateway P3/667 laptop that I could run it on... but like all gateway garbage, the plastic
was so thin, that the heat generated from the CPU and the battery made it flake off the laptop
like a thin layer of ice on a piece of glass.

Now you have to hold its guts in when you pick it up.

I figure an underpowered piece of junk like that would be a good candidate to run Ubuntu on. Assuming
I take it out of the box it is in, and make a coffin-case to hold the parts.

[GuyGene]

I can't help, but if I had any kind of PC (not a Mac) lying around, I would definitely go for it. I have even been wanting to try it too, but all my personal (i.e., not wife's) Macs are old Power PC processors, and harder to install/run Linux on those.

[kap]

Jimmypoo wrote:
I've got a Gateway P3/667 laptop that I could run it on... but like all gateway garbage, the plastic
was so thin, that the heat generated from the CPU and the battery made it flake off the laptop
like a thin layer of ice on a piece of glass.

Now you have to hold its guts in when you pick it up.

I figure an underpowered piece of junk like that would be a good candidate to run Ubuntu on. Assuming
I take it out of the box it is in, and make a coffin-case to hold the parts.

Scotch tape?
o

[DaviDC.]

Last night I tried to install ubuntu 10.10 on an old Dell but 3 times it froze a few minutes into the process.
I downloaded 9.10, burned it to a CD & it installed just fine. Afterward there were over 300 updates for it & it took another hour for those to download & install. Now I have a PC that's useable in less than 3 minutes after startup as opposed to 15 minutes when it was running XP.

Moral of the story? The latest isn't always the best.