<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi all, Here are my two cents: I have been using Ubuntu since 07.04. And If I remember correctly, I have been using Ubuntu full time on my personal laptop sometimes in the mid 2008, switching from Windows XP and Vista. Over the past three years, just like everyone, I have experienced the ups and downs of each release. For example, 9.04 and 9.10, I had to manually activate/connect my Bluetooth Headset to work. However, since 10.04, activating/connecting a Bluetooth device is as simple as clicking a couple of switches. What I have learned and appreciate about Ubuntu and Linux and FOSS? The whole system is a WIP. Sometimes, it works, sometimes it does not. Also, the good thing about where we are is that we get new flavour every six months for FREE. You don't have to use or try the new flavour, but for someone like me, who gets bored easily, it is great, and did I mentioned FREE? In comparison to other proprietary OSs, that releases major versions every few years for a PRICE, AND with the risk of the new versions being obsolete (e.g. Windows 98 first edition and Windows ME. Coming soon, Windows Vista). Another thing that I appreciate about FOSS as a whole is that it is a community. We are all in here for common good. Yes, Ubuntu is funded by Cannonical and for that we should be grateful, because otherwise, Ubuntu would not have been where it is today. So, my word of wisdom is... If one flavour does not meet your needs/requirements, use the flavour that meets your needs/requirements. This is what FOSS all about. There is no need to be negative about it because all you are doing is that you are being ungrateful. Here is where you may want to stop reading this email if you feel that you may get offended. Read at your own risk. I will not response to any negative feedback from anyone reading the next few sentences. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO THOSE WHO FEEL THAT UBUNTU HAS DONE THEM WRONG: STOP YOUR BITCHING! LIFE IS TOUGH! DEAL WITH IT!!! YOU DON'T LIKE UBUNTU, INSTALL OTHER LINUX DISTRIBUTION OR BETTER YET, GO TO TO THE STORE, PAY SOME MONEY AND GET WINDOWS 7 OR MAC OS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><hr size="1">From: Eric <1ballistic1@gmail.com> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Fri, September 24, 2010 12:08:36 PM Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Personally, I have to second the dislike of Intel boards, but I'm also aware there's a very good reason you'll see "YMMV" in a lot of forums ("Your Mileage May Vary") I do have 10.04 running on an old P4 Celeron on an Asus board....had to do funny stuff for the onboard network there, but at least ubuntu picked it up...the 6 or 7 others i was playing with at the time didn't like it near as much. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Che Guebeara <<a ymailto="mailto:cheguebeara@gmail.com" href="mailto:cheguebeara@gmail.com">cheguebeara@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > No conspiracy theory there... I am running 10.04 on 4 machines right now, > all installed fresh, two running in remote mode from my main desktop... and > the newest machine is a P3 (4 perhaps?) 1.5 GHz... I find that with older > machines at least 500 megs of RAM and 128 - 256 megs of VRAM are the ticket. > And avoid Intel motherboards... had nothing but problems with video with > Intel boards with onboard video... yukka! > > M. > > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:35 -0400, J wrote: > >> > Well, its more about the thing that every single place has this thing > for Ubuntu, where is glorified to the point where is upsetting to see > that "just it works", when it doesn't, not misunderstand me, I like > Ubuntu, but this software may "just work" on newer hardware rather than > older, but of course Canonical wont tell you that > > > > -- > ubuntu-ca mailing list > <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> > > -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div></div> </div></body></html>