Ubuntu Fesity Pt 2

Now onto part 2 of my review of feisty fawn. After installing the ubuntu base system, the first thing I done was went about adding the restricted repos. After this I ran a sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop to install KDE. This worked great , took forever and a day b/c of my slow comcast cable. After installing I chose kdm as my standard login manager and logged back into kde. Everything seemed fine so I went about setting up beryl using the beryl wiki. After a few hiccups with modifying the xorg file, I had beryl up and running on this old laptop. VERY easy to configure, infact I think this may be the easiest to setup I've ever experienced. Once again, the install and setup of this laptop was absolutely amazing. I never once had anything that upset me. I can't say that I like the tap-to-click being enabled by default, but thats simple enough to change in the xorg(although there should really be a gui tool to change that by now). Anyway, once again if you are looking for a distro that is AMAZINGLY easy to get setup and running, at least with an ATI card, then def download an iso and check it out. As far as the actual final review of the distro itself, check back later b/c I haven't played with it and neither has Miranda.

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Installing Feisty - Part 1
Well I just got through my install of feisty fawn on this lovely Latitude D600. Its running 256mb ram w/ an ati radeon card and so far I'll have to say....I'm intrigued. Let me start at the beginning. I used bittorrent and downloaded the iso images for both kubuntu and ubuntu. My original intention was to install kubuntu and just use ubuntu as a backup. Well I burned my kubuntu cd and got an error message that the kernel could not be found. Well I assumed I got a bad ISO so I downloaded again and got the same thing again. Crap. So I went ahead and burned ubuntu. It booted nicely within a few seconds and prompted me with a full desktop. The wireless card worked fine, and even connected to my access point. I started the install and after the usual install procedure I was prompted with my wonderful new task of setting up ubuntu and getting kde running! This will be covered in another post, sorry I have class in the morning...

Linux or my girlfriend, which will kill me first?

Now time for a real post! Let me say up front that since my girlfriend and I met, she's been running linux. I got her on it about a month after we started dating and she's never looked back. During this time she has ran multiple distros, mainly ubuntu tho. Well when Edgy Eft came out, she had a fit. She did not like anything about. So I set about trying to find a decent replacement. This was when I went through the fiasco of trying Dreamlinux and no offense to any of those guys but I had nothing but problems with the distro so I gave up. The problems I won't go into b/c I don't have time, but suffice to say I won't try again. I ended up settiling on Linux Mint, it seemed somewhat promising and everything seemed to work out of the box(she's running a Dell Latitude laptop with the intel wireless and an ati radeon video card). So as a temporary stop, we ran linux mint. The only reason I say temporary is that I could never seem to get KDE, her desktop of choice, running properly without killiing openoffice. I setup about trying to find a distro to last a while. While playing with beryl in Knoppix I got curious about running beryl and ran across the Sabayon distro and it looked great. All the speed of gentoo w/o the 3 days spent installing? SIGN ME UP!! Well...ok...so I did end up spending 3 days even if it wasn't all installing. My first install went through fine, the only problem was that the synaptics touchpad was slow as the three day itch. Well, I fixed that in xorg.conf and went about updates emerge as best I knew how. I ran emerge --sync b/c I was told to and then ran emerge portage, b/c after the sync went through this was what I was instructed to do. I went about the process of updating the config files and tried my first big install openoffice. BIG NO NO. Something went wrong(once again not getting into details) but it managed to crash the network manager. I've personally never ran gentoo so I have no idea how to get that working again seeing as how I didn't even have the ifconfig command anymore, so I reinstalled the system. Anyway to make a long story short I went about this process about 3 times before I learned that I either A) Don't understand the gentoo portage system or B) Hate the gentoo portage system. Eventually I did manage to get the basic packages loaded I needed and handed the laptop to my girlfriend so quickly you would think it had a disease. Well not 10 min after I hand it to her...something crashes, its kopete. Well then openoffice crashes. Ok, linux doesn't crash, this distro has to go. Now during this time I did attempt @ installing Fedora but to be honest, the wireless didn't work out of the box and I'm too lazy to try and configure it so now I will try the newest version of Kubuntu. Feisty Fawn herd 5 is out so I'm downloading that tonight. I'll be installing it tommorow. I know its a beta release and thats understandable but it has to be better than the other stuff I've been through. Anyway, expect to see a full review in a day or so!

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This is the first of many to come!!