a Gutsy Gibbon Indeed

For the past two weeks i've spent a couple of evenings messing around with Ubuntu's latest and greatest, 'Gutsy Gibbon'.

Since i'm hardheaded i've chosen the alternate-iso to download and use for installation. Mostly since i'm also interested in unattended installations etc.

This has not proven to be the smartest initiative. The first iso appeared to be broken which is a bit of bad-luck. Tried again and booted without any issue.

Since i've ran Debian for a couple of years and wanted to 'go with the flow' i choose Ubuntu as my Desktop-OS of choice. Mostly to make sure i will not fall short of more up-to-date software such as the yummy Gnome 2.20.

So far i'm sad. Though i'm used to installing a Linux Distro and have a fair understanding of what it requires to run. I cannot get my machine to operate by using the available tools. Since i'm running with an ATI Radeon x1950Pro i've selected to use the restricted-driver-manager to get my desktop to work. Which is failing over and over again. I've tried about all i could without resorting to any logfiles and start working the hard-way because my greatest intention is to verify if this OS is consumer-ready. Given from my current experience this is not. I cannot believe any of my neighbours without any IT skills would be able to get this to work.

On my old but sturdy laptop (Compaq E500) the upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon broke the automounter for my external usb-drive.

This night or any other i'll try the Desktop-iso for my more powerfull machine and report back.

Somehow, to me Ubuntu does not seem to be Ready.