Fuzzy wrote:
Ubuntu is. Put the CD in, boot the computer. Select install. Answer some personal questions and make a password. Select how much of the hard disk to use, and the install is ready in 1/2 hour.
The first thing that happened when I tried to install, was the infamous "/bin/sh can't access tty" error. So much for the installation. After several hours of googling I found the parametres that was needed to make the installation work, some claim it was a kernel problem with SATA drives. I guess alternate CD would have been an option too, but downloading ~700MBs doesn't happen in a second, either.
Then there's the problem with Internet: by default, Windows shuts down the LAN cards, so that needed to be fixed (actually, that's not Ubuntu's fault). My DSL now works... for about 30mins :evil:. Then it has to be manually restarted again, since there is something that (K)Ubuntu doesn't recognize about DHCP lease or something like that (one of the answers from Ubuntuforums were something along the lines of "Windows is broken since it can autoupdate the connection by default"... right :roll:).
Refresh rates and drivers; whoa, again it took an uncountable amount of time to google how to get 85Hz, instead of 60Hz, which makes my eyes bleed.
Random stuff that I can recall at the moment: mouse was acting very strangely, fortunately moving it to USB instead of PS/2 fixed it; my eSATA drive didn't automount, nor could I edit its NTFS content (both fixed later, iirc). Also, insert stuff here that I've luckily forgotten already, too many problems to remember.
As if things weren't already been such a hassle, I decided to update to Gutsy when it came out. First update... the program froze for hours, needless to say it had pretty much ruined the whole (K)Ubuntu installation. Second try... the update froze since the DSL stopped working. No lease autorenew I guess. Third try it worked... until there was some file called "tzdata" that effectively kept me from installing anything.
After that I pretty much gave up, haven't tried it for some months. Right now I'm too busy to and fix something just to do my surfin' around the web. And as you can see I'm not alone. 21% say that there were no problems with Gutsy update/install, and as high as 1/3rd say there are many problems that they haven't been able to solve. I know all this is free, but I wouldn't exactly call that a very successful product
Source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580852I downloaded the 700MB Live CD in 12 Minutes. That is waiting to the end of the school day at the institiution i work at [When i`m the only one online at 4:30PM on the server i can actually get near T1 Speeds.] I was also using a Quad-Core Lenovo Thinkcentre with 4GB Memory and XP Professional with nothing on it but Photoshop, Office 03, and Macromedia Design Suite.
17 Feb 2008, 5:44 pm
