In article <web.4728dbd453ebc795773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>, 
nam### [at] gmailcom says...
> hmm, this thread still alive.
> 
> anyway, now with broadband I downloaded the latest Ubuntu release from my
> previous version, burnt it and installed.
> 
> In under 30 minutes I had a working system fully updated, previous direct
ories
> from the other disk partition mounted as volumes in the desktop, a slick 
Compiz
> graphical interface running atop the proprietary nvidia driver that looks
 just
> about as good as any Mac/Vista, codecs for mpg, mp3, wmv (offers a simple
> search-for-extra-codecs), a working broadband connection and the latest
> Firefox, Blender, Gimp and inkscape.  I also installed Wings3D, but it's
> broken.  and, hey, even gedit is better than ever!
> 
> The installation procedure only asked my time zone by providing a clickab
le
> world map and my user name.  You could also easily partition the disk by
> selecting one to install to.  Internet connection was the only command-li
ne
> procedure, by following a simple pppoeconf text interface.
> 
> that's it:  the most easily accessible Linux distro ever.
> 
Fedora was easy like that too, at least as far as I got. But it 
defaulted to an Virtual Partition file system or some BS and I haven't 
figured out a way to get rid of that, short of running the installer 
again and nuking the partition. Probably could from inside Fedora as 
well, maybe, but seriously, why use something that a) isn't that useful, 
since most people are not going to leave huge chunks of disk space 
unused to "resize" into, and b) can't be read/removed with 90% of the 
distros, since they don't support it (including Ubuntu). :p

Seriously though, heard some good things about the latest Ubuntu 
release. The only issue some people had was some laptops which the 
hardware makers put stupid settings in for their power management (like 
spinning the disks down every 30 seconds or some idiocy, and trashing 
the life span of the HD by doing so), and which Windows and others 
override, but Ubuntu didn't (because, well... who the hell would be dumb 
enough to set the BIOS defaults on their own hardware so stupidly?) lol

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