Ubuntu

Originally Posted by Dr Rich

Isn't Ubuntu what the missionary chose death by in the cannibals joke?

Nah.... he's the one who's last request was for a fork.

He stabbed himself all over with it and his dying words were "You're not making a ****ing canoe out of me!"

[SoulKiss]

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Had to laugh at Jabba's comment - well Ubuntu is a "fork" of Debian

David

UBUNTU

Originally Posted by Jdubya

UBUNTU

You're not telling us geeks much, the ubuntu website says this. It's why it's called ubuntu, shockingly.

Originally Posted by Baph

You're not telling us geeks much, the ubuntu website says this. It's why it's called ubuntu, shockingly.

Just a different perspective...one that I grew up with in South Africa. None of this namby pamby computer rubbish

Originally Posted by Marshall

i installed it on the laptop as XP was running REAL slow and i thought Linux would be a bit faster (its only a 900 celron with sod all ram) but i was wrong if anything this is even slower i might try and put some more ram in it, that should help

The full Ubuntu, is meant for fairly new machines. If you would like a faster Ubuntu, there is a leaned up version, called XUbuntu. You can dl from http://www.xubuntu.org/

Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based system with an Ubuntu base. It's lighter, and more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, as well as thin-client networks.

This will run quickly, it just wont look as sexy.

Originally Posted by philipMac

The full Ubuntu, is meant for fairly new machines. If you would like a faster Ubuntu, there is a leaned up version, called XUbuntu. You can dl from http://www.xubuntu.org/

This will run quickly, it just wont look as sexy.

I was just about to say that... the other option is put something really light on like DSL, Dam Small Linux... which is so tiny you can boot it off a 64mb usb stick!

PicoBSD people! Boot from floppy, forget your harddisk even exists!

Originally Posted by Baph

PicoBSD people! Boot from floppy, forget your harddisk even exists!

Thats a bit extreme even for me.

Originally Posted by Grinch

Thats a bit extreme even for me.

Sorry I'm used to running machines that have a power cable, and eth cable, and don't have any form of graphical interface that involves more than 2 colours.

PicoBSD is a damn handy router, if someone comprimises it, the floppy is write protected anyway, physically. If you want to test config, stick a floppy in a test machine. When you roll it to the production environment, you suffer a few mins downtime to shutdown & restart the box.