There has been a lot of hype surrounding the Ubuntu Linux distribution recently. I decided to give the Live CD a run on my fiance's system. I was bitterly disappointed. The Live CD doesn't come near to living up to the hype it's given. What follows are a few problems I ran into:
1. The Live CD doesn't have ADSL support (at least doesn't have a gui for it). To me this means the live cd is crippled because Internet access is a major feature of Linux. I realize there's only so much to put on a live CD, but why put any Internet software on the CD if end users can't even connect to the Internet.
2. The Live CD crashed the first 2 times I tried booting it.
3. Many programs on the CD would not load even with 384MB RAM.
4. The XServer seems to run too high for the LCD. As the XServer loads a lot of horizontal stripes race across the screen. It's not so bad when the server has finished loading.
I didn't even test the printing facilities or check out the other hardware support, it's possible that sound and the USB cam wouldn't be supported. After having tried the SuSE Live CD I have to say Ubuntu lags behind SuSE by a wide margin.
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