Comments on: Ubuntu 6.10 Install CD Bug

By: E@zyVG

E@zyVG — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:43:06 +0000

What ya say …. Kubuntu 6.10 or MEPIS 6?

By: Gunny

Gunny — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:16:04 +0000

Shame… you need an ISP that gives you an uberfast unmetered download mirror!

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:04:04 +0000

E@syVG: I haven’t tried them both out yet… I could write an (opinionated) comparison of the two if you wish, though

Gunny - Hehe! Actually, I don’t have a download limit.. I was just ranting because I had to wait for another 700MB ISO to finish download, and it was taking its time (I lie, it took less than half an hour)

By: Gunny

Gunny — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:46:30 +0000

Silly rich people with unlimited bandwidth…

{ mutters about the revolution }

By: E@zyVG

E@zyVG — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:28:03 +0000

The comparsison would be really nice

By: Gunny

Gunny — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:18:33 +0000

KDE never really floated my boat. GNOME users make better lovers!

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:56:35 +0000

Haha! Gunny, it’s just a standard BT package - nothing special

E@zyVG - I don’t know when I’ll be able to do it, but I’ll try

And Gunny - what could possibly be better than the CLI?

Anyway, I’ve just installed FC6 on my laptop (the other one doesn’t work properly - it has a few problems, eg. NIC doesn’t work, battery does not charge, etc), and its GUI doesn’t work with my ATI Mobility Radeon X700XL… Neither did Ubuntu 6.10 until I installed the proprietary driver manually. I’ll try updating the FC6 ATi driver in the same way, and I’ll let you know if it works.

If it doesn’t, I’ve still got Links!

By: ray

ray — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:12:32 +0000

As you are using a Debian based distro, your final comment is against the social contract and, as such, a bunch of hippies are on the way round to see you. The correct phrasing should be

But look on the bright side: it’s not completely weaselled up, eh?

I checed out Kubuntu and the whole thing got weaselled up when I tried to upgrade to Eft. Why is it that Ubuntu are incapable of making a new version that works on day one? /me hugs his Slack 11 DVD

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:47:14 +0000

Hahaha! Good point, Ray!

Meh, I don’t know why I bother with these binary distros… Slackware’s still my favourite distro, and I’m dying to try out Slack 11, but as FC6 had gone so well on the other laptop I wanted to see if I had the same luck with this one… Obviously not

Actually, next weekend, I think I’ll install Slack 11, recompile to a 2.6.x kernel and install the ATi driver - it will save me far more hassle than all this Fedora/Ubuntu rubbish is causing

Ubuntu’s a great distro, but I do agree with you - they don’t seem to get final releases right. I think I’ll wait for the DVD version to come out… That might be stable enough to use on my laptop. If not, I’ll install my <3 : Slackware

Oh, and Ray, don’t be so lazy! There’s already a Firefox 2.0 package for Slack 11 and you’re still using 1.5.0.7

By: Rory

Rory — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:53:30 +0000

This sounds like the “Ubuntu Black Screen of Death.”

See this bug report and if you’re experiencing the same issue, please report in the bug so Ubuntu Devs can get a sense of the severity of this issue.

Bug Report:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/67487

Ubuntu Forums Thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=09e5de41cecb71d50912cc98c686a43e&p=1686198&posted=1#post1686198

By: Gunny

Gunny — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:28:57 +0000

JK: You don’t live down under where Telstra has an unfair monoploy and broadband costs a arm and a leg for anything decent.

Now I’m confused about which distro to start with..:(

By: ray

ray — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:20:47 +0000

Yay on using Slackware! I now have the 2.0 Slack pack - installed it last night. The vanilla install from Mozilla wasn’t playing nice so it had to go.

And yep, I too hate messing around with binary distros, they always bring sooo many problems to the table.

By: J_K9

J_K9 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:32:38 +0000

Thanks Rory - I’ve added a comment

Gunny - That sucks… At least you get something decent. At home (a small country - I won’t say which) we get charged £30 for 256Kb/s down and 128Kb/s up: it’s ridiculous, but they’ve also got a monolopy, so there is no other choice if you want something relatively (4x *sigh*) faster than 56K.

Ray - I agree! Somehow there’s always a problem with binary distros… Hehe!

By: Gunny

Gunny — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:15:53 +0000

I can’t handle Slack’s lack of dependecy mangenment.

By: ray

ray — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:37:26 +0000

Slackware has excellent dependency management: you compile the program and, during compilation, it tells you the packages you are missing. Then you go get them and install them. What could be easier?

By: Gunny

Gunny — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:07:16 +0000

That’s about as useful as ed’s syntax highlighting and generous error reporting!!

That said, I’d proabley try the Slack once I’ve cut my teeth on Buntu.

By: Gunny

Gunny — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:17:04 +0000

And as a side note, does Slack tell you all the dependeces you need at once or just one at a time?

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