Couldn't get the Linksys wireless card working on the Dell Latitude Win2k machine that sort of fell off a truck and into my possession. I was meaning to try Ubuntu anyway. http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu is a 1 CD debian based Linux desktop. I think Mark Shuttleworth has something to do with its creation. Anyway its Python friendly. It recognizes my wireless card and finds my home wireless network on install. Beyond that - it ends up putting me onto a gnome desktop that's extremely sparse and extremely pleasing. Just the aesthetic quality of things like the Ubuntu logo, and default desktop background, give one s sense of something special. Which I truly sense Ubuntu to be. Art
I was meaning to try Ubuntu anyway.
Ubuntu is a 1 CD debian based Linux desktop.
I think Mark Shuttleworth has something to do with its creation. Anyway its Python friendly.
A little slow on getting to comment here. Yes, Mark is behind Ubuntu. And it's not just Python "friendly", it aims to be an easy-to-use acessible Linux distribution where they've specifically chosen Python as the programming language. There are some nifty projects that Ubuntu is offering "bounties" for completing - it's worth a look on the site. All to be delivered in Python. I heard Mark speak about Ubuntu at LinuxWorld in Frankfurt a few weeks ago. After going into space he wanted to try something /really/ hard :-) and Ubuntu is it .... and there are some wonderful educational programs that his foundation is using this for.
Beyond that - it ends up putting me onto a gnome desktop that's extremely sparse and extremely pleasing.
I'm relatively impressed too. And this sort of thing is the goal of the project - to get an accessible distribution in the hands of folks who have no idea what all is out there in the open source world.
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