Does Red Hack suck?

[Eric Dunbar]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:18:58 +1100, philip <philip at hereweare.org> wrote:
>         A few weeks ago a friend recommended I try Ubuntu...What the hey. I
> have been using it now for about three weeks and for my needs on an
> aging G3 Ubuntu is more than adequate.  It works sound and all, with the
> ati video driver all working seamlessly. This from a single cd iso and
> mirror sites that  makes terrasoft ftp look very tired. The installer is
> not anaconda, it is different, seems pretty much idiot proof and
> designed with the complete newbie novice in mind.

One (whinghy) complaint: there are few mirrors for Ubuntu. In a way I
take this to mean that uptake hasn't been that great (there's not
_one_ NA mirror even though a very significant % of the world's
computer users are in Canada/US (& maybe Mexico but I imagine there
aren't that many there)). Also, the bittorrent was more like a trickle
(13 MB overnight, 2 users (dial-up I presume)) vs. from one UK Ubuntu
ftp mirror I got 19 K/sec (pitiful compared to McGill's 200 K/sec for
YDL (over ADSL)... & 1MB/sec (Montreal to Toronto) on a uni LAN
connection... perhaps McGill could be convinced to pick up Ubuntu).

I have yet to install Ubuntu... I'm backing up my Pismo's HD as we
speak to the YDL server box (has a cheap 80 GB drive) (backing up 15
GB over 10 BT is a rather arduous process). Right now 20 GB is
partitioned 13 GB & 6 GB. I'm going to see if I can simply 'destroy'
the 6 GB partition and install Ubuntu to that, otherwise I guess I'll
have to floormat and re-install everything.

Eric.