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Well I just got Ubuntu today in the mail. I'm currently typing up this topic while running the live cd on my main computer.
The livecd bootup process was painfree but not as fast as it could have been. I'd say it took about two or so minutes. On the bright side, it found all of my hardware. The only thing it didn't do was enable hardware acceleration for my graphics card but then a live cd can't contain everything. :wink:
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What's your graphics card? ATI?
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No - nVidia. Actually I imagine the reason I don't have acceleration is it didn't come with the official nVidia driver, which is not open source. :wink:
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oh well, nothing's perfect
btw my gentoo system takes less than a minute to boot up to a login screen, not counting pre-grub system init crap
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Hey cool just today i also installed ubuntu. I just have to say the install was very easy.
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I tried Ubuntu... it was actually really impressive. For some reason on a PIII it had a few issues with the process scheduling algorithms in the kernel, though.... I couldn't get a DivX movie to play smoothly for the life of me, or even UT classic, because no single process would take more than like 12% of the CPU.
Oh well... the bright side is it lead me to try FreeBSD, the light of the world.
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