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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. 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. 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. Got to disable the touch pad because it is hopeless for a touch typist; the slightest touch on the pad while I'm typing and the cursor jumps around and inserts whatever I'm typing where it feels like... Sound is a bit wierd (I'm using the default ALSA stuff); radio stations just stop playing under rhythmbox and the thing crashed after a while. Also the speaker volume control on the menu bar thinks it should control the headphone socket rather than the built-in speakers even when there are no headphones plugged in which isn't so useful. So I'm one happy linux bunny now. thanks to anyone for listening, Matthew. -- 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