Based on Debian Linux and promoted by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu Linux has gained a loyal following since it's inception. Today we'll be taking a look at Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog and see what this South African based distribution with a global appeal is all about.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Well propriety drivers will never be installed automatically by Ubuntu as it goes against their philosophy. This isn't so bad, my 2 year old PC doesn't even have its' graphics driver installed automatically by XP,then again the sound driver didn't work either, and a couple other things.. but they do in Ubuntu, hardware is annoying as hell..
The bottom line here is that an absolutely huge portion of the Linux Community has tried Ubuntu, and fallen in love, and finally doesn't have to change distro every 3 months. The rest of you, who either haven't tried it or did and it didn't work for you, spend your time trying to pull it down.
Fact is if you hate Ubuntu it's just because you were unlucky with your hardware and now it's time to go back to Fedora (can't have been that great either seeing as you were willing to try out Ubuntu as a replacement).
I'm not going to go on saying how Ubuntu isn't perfect and blah, but those of you moaning really do look increasingly desperate, and it's rather sad. Ubuntu isn't just the *next* big thing, it's *the* big thing; massive market penetration faster than you or I can google for "japanese school girls +uniforms", get over it, at the end of the day it's just a piece of software used by geeks, anyway.
Member since:webcam drivers and a decent IM Software full functional for voice and video chat.
Thats more in the hands of the makers of the webcams, the makers of the chat software and the kernel makers that it is in the hands of the Ubuntu developers.
Someone on the forum said it best. "The best way to solve the problem the Linuxs have with webcams is simple: just forget you have the damn thing."
(kinda joking)
Member since:2005-07-06
I liked your little joke, your sense of humour is appreciated by me, but not everyone around here will get it...
they will come back bitching about having spent $9 on a webcam and that it MUST work with Linux as it works with Windows and therefore Windows is better than Linux, and they must return to their trailers for another beer and a slap at the wife before they find something else to moan about
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Okay, I know that Ubuntu is meant for the desktop, but, I don't think that it is all the way there. So I was thinking that if someone could include property software eg. Nvidia/ATi drivers,webcam drivers and a decent IM Software full functional for voice and video chat. Then Linux might have a chance at making it on the desktop
Alan