Switched from Fedora Core 4 to Ubuntu 5.10
My laptop disk drive crashed two weeks ago. This was a good time to try-out another Linux distro (in addition to Solaris). After booting my laptop with Knoppix, to recover some files (since last backup), I decided to try Ubuntu (5.10).
I was VERY pleased with how smooth the install went. I had to disable the GUI during install:
boot: linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false
Other than that, things went great. It only asked for a few pieces of information. It automatically found more of my hardware then FC4 ever did. The install was almost as good as how my Mac installs OSX.
Ubuntu 6.05 was released a few days after I did my install, :-( The word is that this is an even better release. Maybe i'll upgrade someday (before this disk crashes).
Posted by gonzo on June 12, 2006 at 06:26 PM CDT #