New Ubuntu Distro coming
Ubuntu Studio. A distro tailored towards audio and video enthusiasts and Professionals. http://ubuntustudio.org/ J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
On 25/01/07, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ubuntu Studio. A distro tailored towards audio and video enthusiasts and Professionals.
I can understand Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, and even Ubuntu Server. But I wonder if they are weakinging their 'brand' by having UbuntuStudio and Edubuntu, etc... Just my thoughts. -- simon
David McNab wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:20 +1300, Simon Green wrote:
I can understand Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, and even Ubuntu Server. But I wonder if they are weakinging their 'brand' by having UbuntuStudio and Edubuntu, etc...
Wait till someone comes up with 'pr0nbuntu' :P
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around). ********************************************* Dr Denise J. Bates, PO Box 50, Meremere 2441 New Zealand E-mail: dbates(a)iconz.co.nz Telephone 09-2336433 Mobile 021-2541330 *********************************************
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install. And it's called ......... Ubuntu. Sorry - couldn't resist. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group
Ian McDonald wrote:
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install.
And it's called ......... Ubuntu.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Easier to install? I must have missed something when I installed and briefly attempted to use Ubuntu. Do you mean that it is _easier_ to install only the packages that I want? Do you mean that it is easier to install onto a 586 with 32mb of RAM? Or perhaps you find it is easier to install it onto a CD-Rom-less machine via the PCMCIA slot? Slackfully yours, ********************************************* Dr Denise J. Bates, PO Box 50, Meremere 2441 New Zealand E-mail: dbates(a)iconz.co.nz Telephone 09-2336433 Mobile 021-2541330 *********************************************
Denise Bates wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install.
And it's called ......... Ubuntu.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Easier to install? I must have missed something when I installed and briefly attempted to use Ubuntu. Do you mean that it is _easier_ to install only the packages that I want? Do you mean that it is easier to install onto a 586 with 32mb of RAM? Or perhaps you find it is easier to install it onto a CD-Rom-less machine via the PCMCIA slot?
Maybe you need Olbuntu, which would be suitable for old hardware...
On 25/01/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
Maybe you need Olbuntu, which would be suitable for old hardware...
Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org, one of the three core Ubuntu flavours) only requires 64MB of RAM (although they strongly recommend 128MB). Just like Slackware, but better. YMMV :P -- simon
Simon Green wrote:
On 25/01/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
Maybe you need Olbuntu, which would be suitable for old hardware...
Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org, one of the three core Ubuntu flavours) only requires 64MB of RAM (although they strongly recommend 128MB). Just like Slackware, but better. YMMV :P
-- simon
Hey, be gentle here... You can't fix a Morris Minor using a metric socket set, metric spanners, or a cross head (aka Phillips) screwdriver. Also resorting to violence with a ball peen hammer is definitely off limits... It's an old car with features that include indicators that flip out in the upper column between the front and rear doors... No rear seatbelts, no no no no...... Same here, we're talking about a Pentium 133 with 32Megs of RAM...
Pff, Dr Bates, take your rabid Slack pimping elsewhere. On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:09 +1300, Denise Bates wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install.
And it's called ......... Ubuntu.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Easier to install? I must have missed something when I installed and briefly attempted to use Ubuntu. Do you mean that it is _easier_ to install only the packages that I want? Do you mean that it is easier to install onto a 586 with 32mb of RAM? Or perhaps you find it is easier to install it onto a CD-Rom-less machine via the PCMCIA slot?
Slackfully yours, ********************************************* Dr Denise J. Bates, PO Box 50, Meremere 2441 New Zealand E-mail: dbates(a)iconz.co.nz Telephone 09-2336433 Mobile 021-2541330 *********************************************
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Dominic Bnonn Tennant wrote:
Pff, Dr Bates, take your rabid Slack pimping elsewhere.
Now now... Play nicely :) We don't want any fisty cuffs online :) For most people, Ubuntu is a very friendly distro that comes out of a box, and for the most part, as Bruce and Cairo Kingsbury demonstrated, it's childs play to install. In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo. But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:09 +1300, Denise Bates wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install.
And it's called ......... Ubuntu.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Easier to install? I must have missed something when I installed and briefly attempted to use Ubuntu. Do you mean that it is _easier_ to install only the packages that I want? Do you mean that it is easier to install onto a 586 with 32mb of RAM? Or perhaps you find it is easier to install it onto a CD-Rom-less machine via the PCMCIA slot?
On 1/25/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo.
But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
Mmmm... debatable. After having tried a few different versions for various purposes I would say there's considerable variety ... much more so than among the various flavours of "windows" that you may come across. Software is a bit like buying a car. No one car suits everybody. All cars have their good points and bad points and you buy one according to the criteria (which includes $$, of course) that you decide ... or you may make an "emotional" decision! Most of you are old enough to remember the early 1980s (pre "IBM-PC") when there were choices (Apple / Commodore / Atari / ZX Spectrum etc), but the transfer of information from one computer to another was a real nightmare. That nightmare also existed in the "commercial" area. There's lots of stories I could tell about 4 generations (starting 1972) of a production monitoring system I worked with. Michael
Michael McDonald wrote:
On 1/25/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo.
But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
Mmmm... debatable. After having tried a few different versions for various purposes I would say there's considerable variety ... much more so than among the various flavours of "windows" that you may come across.
Software is a bit like buying a car. No one car suits everybody. All cars have their good points and bad points and you buy one according to the criteria (which includes $$, of course) that you decide ... or you may make an "emotional" decision!
Yes.... Where is I was coming from is that all cars have the following features... - Wheels (99% percent of them have four in case some brings up that old english car that had three wheels) - A steering wheel - 2 or 3 pedals - Gear stick in manuals, gear selector in autos. - an engine - and so on. While, some cars are different from others, the general idea is that fundamentally if you can drive a car, then you should be able to drive any car. The look and feel will be different. And depending on who you are will depend on whether you like a particular car or not.
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