5.10 preview install disaster

[Grant Edwards]

I just downloaded and installed the 5.10 preview and I'm pretty
dissappointed.  After all the rave reviews I've read about
Ubunto, I'd have to say it's the worst Linux install I've ever
done.  

I've done at least 50 Debian installs, dozens of Mandrake
installs and installs of every RedHat version since 2.1.  I've
also installed several different versions of Suse, TurboLinux,
and a few others. This particular laptop has had three or four
different Debian installs, at least four RedHat installs and
five or six Mandrake installs.  All those installs worked fine
except for a few where suspend didn't work.

Them along comes the "breezy badger".  The install process
itself seemed to go smoothly except for the network device
section.  It didn't detect my cardbus network card, and when it
told me to go back and install a module for it, there was no
way to do so -- it just did the autodetect and told me no
network card was detected and I should go back and install a
module for it.

Once the install finished, I logged in and booted up Gnome.
None of the administration/config utilities work.  They ask for
the root password, "start" for a few seconds, then nothing.
[Except for one of the network configuration tools -- it brings
up a blank window and then locks up so that you have to kill
it.]

After editing /etc/network/interfaces and manually bringing up
the network, I tried to install the jed editor using apt-get.
Nope.  No sources are configured, so apt-get is useless.

I pick the "add/remove programs" entry off the menu. It asks
for the root password, then nothing.

I try to "log out" and that doesn't work either.

So, it's ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X.  I do a "shutdown -fr"
from a console and it hangs "checking the battery status" while
booting up.

Not impressed so far...

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