<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Andrew Hunter wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200701161303.15305.andy.hunter@rogers.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:52, Maurice Murphy wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> When NTFS-3G hits feisty that should be possible OOTB or at least an apt-get install away. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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; </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It is proably in the Recomends field of the package. With Feisty, recomends will be installed by default. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Skype is third party (and closed source I think), and hense not supported by ubuntu. Consider filling a bug with them. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Glad you have like what you found. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Take care all. Happy and healthy 2007! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks, Andrew </pre> </blockquote> 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 :-) :-) :-) </body> </html>