Munckfish.net

This last weekend I installed Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy Badger) on my old machine and I was seriously impressed.

For months I have been using Fedora Core 3 on my main machine, and have been trying to get around to the hassle of upgrading it to FC4. But now I am considering moving to Ubuntu.

For a home system Ubuntu is just what you need. Fetching new software is really easy using the simplied add/remove package application for common apps and Synaptic/APT for finding and installing more specialist items.

My only gripe is that it appears as if the firewall isn’t setup by default (or maybe it’s cause I cancelled Firestarter first time around?) and the firewall configuration app, Firestarter, needed to be downloaded and installed from the remote repository. However, once you’ve got Firestarter it makes setting up IPTables filters very simple. It even includes a neat tray applet to allow easy adminstration.

Other highlights include:

1. The Mono .Net implementation has been included as well a selection of stable applications based on it
2. Administration is made easy by default as it uses sudo so that users can adopt root permissions without having to actually become root, and can use their own password to do so.
3. Gnome 2.12