Linked by Eugenia Loli on Sat 17th Mar 2007 00:26 UTC
During my 8 years of Linux on and off usage I have tried more distros than I have chocolate bars. Each one of my previous encounters meant that I had to spend at least 2 days configuring before I have a desktop that I was somewhat comfortable with. With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn's latest test beta --for the first time ever-- this was not the case. I was up and running with all the niceties I wanted within 2 hours.
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RE[3]: Ubuntu is missing too much stuff...
by ubit on Sat 17th Mar 2007 12:23
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RE[4]: Ubuntu is missing too much stuff...
by lemur2 on Sat 17th Mar 2007 12:42
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{ Ubuntu doesn't come with smb or nfs by default. Like Eugenia said, you open up the networking config tool and it prompts to install nfs and/or smb. }
That is what I did. I just went to the Kubuntu "System Settings"
http://www.kubuntu.org/docs/kquickguide/C/ch03s07.html
... then to "internet & network" and then "sharing"
http://www.kubuntu.org/docs/kquickguide/C/ch03s07.html#sect-sharing
... and clicked "administrator mode" ... and Ubuntu told me I needed NFS and Samba to be installed, and then after I allowed it to, Ubuntu automatically downloaded and installed them both for me.
RE[3]: Ubuntu is missing too much stuff...
by zombie process on Sun 18th Mar 2007 03:57
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RE[4]: Ubuntu is missing too much stuff...
by dsmogor on Mon 19th Mar 2007 15:49
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Because it has extremely poor performance on large dirs and requires mutual ssh passwordless login setup which is far from user friendly.
Besides, no support for discovering computers in your neighborhood exits.
By the way, is there an easy way do integrate nfs/gnome vfs with avahi to have shares discovery?
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Sorry, but the lack of NFS client support means that if you have two machines with Linux on and one is to share the files to the other, then by default, you *can't* on Ubuntu. It took a bit of Googling to realise that portmap and nfs-common were needed - the average user of Ubuntu would have no clue about this and think it was impossible to set up an Ubuntu box to use NFS (as either a client or server). Saying that SMB shares are available is a complete cop-out - this implies that the only way an Ubuntu user can share files on their local network is to have a Windows box as a fileserver!
Problem with saying that you can use Synaptic to install stuff is that I was sick and tired of running it over 20 times to fill in the gaps shockingly left wide open by Ubuntu. No secure shell daemon installed - oh, you can't log inbetween Linux machines on your network then. No Azureus meant downloading Sun's Java (from java.sun.com - the Ubuntu version didn't work for me) and the Azureus package - the Speed Scheduler plugin is essential for me (and *many* users) because I'm quotaed during peak times and I must have automatic throttling at certain times of the day.
Got to say that claiming some obscure Bluetooth server was missing isn't that essential - not being able to run the Flash plug-in, Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in or Java plug-in in Firefox on a 64-bit Ubuntu system easily is way more important a problem. Ubuntu should make it easy to install 32-bit versions of apps that rely on 32-bit libraries onto 64-bit systems (and before you say that 64-bit is "scarce" - it isn't, a *lot* of new systems are 64-bit capable) - at the moment, it's too hard to do so on Ubuntu, which is a big negative in my books. I'd like to see Synaptic include a 32-bit/64-bit option (i.e. add an architecture column and let you choose which bitness you want for a particular app [for apps, you can probably only have one or the other, but for libs, you should be able to install both, assuming the install paths don't clash].