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Andrew Hunter wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:52, Maurice Murphy wrote:
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<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.
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When NTFS-3G hits feisty that should be possible OOTB or at least an apt-get
install away.
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<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;
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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.
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<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.
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It is proably in the Recomends field of the package. With Feisty, recomends
will be installed by default.
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<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.
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Skype is third party (and closed source I think), and hense not supported by
ubuntu. Consider filling a bug with them.
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<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.
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Glad you have like what you found.
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<pre wrap="">Take care all. Happy and healthy 2007!
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Thanks,
Andrew
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<font size="+1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Andrew,<br>
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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?<br>
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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!<br>
<br>
Maurice from Nepean<br>
<span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
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