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Matthew Fairtlough wrote: > I had a bit of a negative rant about Ubuntu recently and I've not been > able to install it on my desktop/laptop yet. > > But I've got it up and running on my notebook (a fujitsu lifebook) and > it's great, especially apt-get. > Good to hear! :-) > What impressed me most was the live repartitioning of my windows disk > which seemed to work faultlessly. I backed up my most important stuff > but it would have taken me days to reinstall all the software I've put > on the notebook if things had gone wrong. I took a deep breath and > prayed it would all be fine and so it seems to be. I am planning to add > a /home partition and move /home there as not enough disk space was > reclaimed on install. > Oh I love that feature, I've used that a few times. I also found the GParted Live CD is handy for resizing. I used it in fact today to resize an XP partition so I could do a dual boot XP and XP install (for a work colleague who doesn't want to upgrade to our new network domain despite everyone else in the region upgrading 3 months ago). > I got network access (not sure if I like the keyring stuff though; > involves typing a password whenever I want to connect to the wlan; also > no documentation that I can find on keyring) right away and connecting a > network printer via samba was easy (now to find the printer that didn't > appear...). But compared to a few years ago when I had to manually > install sambe and then wade through the manuals and still never got > networking to work properly, this is a dream. That keyring thing is annoying. Luckily it seems to remember the password for the entire logged on session. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html