[clug] Ubuntu 7.04
Steven Hanley
sjh at svana.org
Fri Apr 20 09:02:25 GMT 2007
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:56:47PM +1000, Peter Anderson wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Just a very quick update. I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) last
> night and installed it today on my test PC. Wow! This is really very
> nice. While its a little early for a thorough review, it just seems to
> look and work very well. Two quick praise points:
>
> * My test machine is a five year old Toshiba laptop and this is the
> best graphics performance "out of the box" of any distribution I
> have tried on this machine before. So far without any adjustment
> fonts and lines are very sharp - dare I say, as good as Windows XP!!!
> * The "Add/Remove" menu function has a huge number of applications -
> many more than previously. It includes JRE 6, Amaya, FileZilla,
> and many more.
>
> I am, so far, very impressed with Feisty.
>
> This install was written over another very interesting install. I had
> PC-BSD previously installed. Now that is also a very interesting OS.
> While the software repository is not that large, installing software is
> easier than any other OS. However, the lack of software and difficulty
> with some hardware make it (a very interesting) work in progress.
And just to mention, the Linux Australia Mirror has a full copy of the ISO
images for Ubuntu 7.04 and Kubuntu 7.04 at
http://mirror.linux.org.au/ubuntu-releases/
Also there is a full ubuntu mirror available there now also point apt at
http://mirror.linux.org.au/ubuntu feisty main universe multiverse restricted
for example (all the older releases are also mirrored).
ftp and rsync are also available.
See You
Steve
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