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Ubuntu 8.04 Review

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Lead Head:
I'm doing a review of Ubuntu 8.04 for the main site. I'm doing things like base features, ease of use and install, etc..

Is there anything special someone may want me to include?

worker201:
How much of it has to be downloaded after the preliminary installation?  I think the hallmark of a good distro is that you can do everything a Mac can right out of the box.  My experience with Ubuntu has been that they give you just enough stuff to start dialing into the apt repositories (or yum or whatever they use these days).  Most distros have things they don't include in the release, usually for licensing reasons, but Ubuntu has occasionally left things out for space and simplicity reasons, which I think is bad practice.  So a list of stuff that you have to download after the install to get a decent system going is a critical part of the review.

Refalm:
Ubuntu 8.04 promised supporting GPRS. If you are in liberty to test that, I'll be glad.

Thanks you for writing the article in advance :)

Lead Head:
I'm disappointed with the partition manager to say the least. I'll talk more about it in the actual review.

Something I think is really neat is that when you put in the CD it lets you boot right into ubuntu, so you can try it out. It seemed to have many things on the live CD. Firefox, E-Mail, Pidgin, Games, bit torrent client, and much more. But there was an install icon right on the desktop that starts up an installer that runs within the live-session.

Also what is GPRS?

Refalm:
GPRS or EDGE is a system to get internet anywhere through your mobile phone operator.

Vodafone, O2, Orange and T-Mobile advertise with USB GPRS sticks so you can access internet anywhere with your laptop. Would be nice if it worked out-of-the-box on Linux.

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