SOME PRAISE AND SUGGESTIONS

[Maurice Murphy]

Andrew Hunter wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:52, Maurice Murphy wrote:
>   
>> I must admit that I am a Debian Linux addict.  I have spent much time
>> with Xandros Professional as a lay beta tester.  Unfortunately, Xandros
>> was not too happy on my HP Media box, so I returned to Ubuntu for a
>> second look.
>>
>> I'm impressed!  I now use Ubuntu as my primary operating system.  I only
>> revert to XP to tweak some Visual Basic apps. that I built as a
>> volunteer for a couple of charitable organizations.
>>
>> Again, I really like Ubuntu, but I do have some suggestions for
>> improvement:
>>
>> 1.  Read/Write ability for ntsf disks/partitions without tweaking would
>> be great.
>>     
>
> When NTFS-3G hits feisty that should be possible OOTB or at least an apt-get 
> install away.
>
>   
>> 2.  More detailed help needed for the installation of network printers.
>> It took me some time to get everything working.  The Xandros Printer
>> Wizard is something worth looking at;
>>     
>
>
> I find the Kubuntu Printer wizard very useful, other than some strange bugs, 
> works fine. I am not sure if Gnome has the same thing.
>   
>> 3.  Could not Gimp Help be loaded automatically with the Gimp?  I want
>> to use the Gimp, but this would be made a lot easier if the Help file
>> was readily available.
>>     
>
> It is proably in the Recomends field of the package. With Feisty, recomends 
> will be installed by default.
>   
>> 4.  An ability to import Thunderbird addresses and messages from the XP
>> version would be really nice to have.  I'm not a great fan of
>> Evolution.  I prefer Thunderbird with the Lightning extension for
>> calendars, etc.
>>
>> 5.  Small bug:  if you don't shut down Skype manually before a restart,
>> you end up with a Skype crash, which also negates any selected Screensaver.
>>     
>
> Skype is third party (and closed source I think), and hense not supported by 
> ubuntu. Consider filling a bug with them.
>
>   
>> I'm still looking for a Ubuntu friendly replacement for Visual Basic
>> that does not involve a massive language learning effort.  I will be 82
>> this year!
>>
>> Once again, I'm very happy, very happy, very happy with Ubuntu!
>> Besides, I really like the philosophy that drives its development.
>>     
>
> Glad you have like what you found.
>
>   
>> Take care all.  Happy and healthy 2007!
>>     
>
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Andrew
>
>   
Andrew,

Many thanks.  I'm really looking forward to Feisty.  Is Herd 2 a live 
download as well as an installation ISO? And another thing, what will be 
the upgrade process from Edgy Eft?

One last thing, to complete my Edgy installation properly I found that I 
had to set my screen resolution in XP to max.  Otherwise, once Edgy was 
installed, I had no screen resolution options and the installation 
screen itself was big and ugly!

Maurice from Nepean
:-)  :-)  :-)
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