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memtest86 available from the
CD-ROM's main menu. It is therefore possible to make a RAM test without
having to burn a separate memtest CD-ROM.
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The CD-ROM that serves as a
bootable installation CD is also a "live CD". Much more handy than
having an installation CD that is very rarely used after the initial
installation, and a second CD-ROM (Knoppix, for instance) to use Linux
on a CD-ROM without necessarly a partition on a hard drive (technique
mostly used for troubleshooting).
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Extremely long
delay before being able to really launch the installation, without any
notice on the main screen (but fortunately, we can get more infos from
using keys F5 to F8).
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Live keyboard map tester,
allowing to test the keys without even having to make your final choice
of layout. Very practical when you're not sure between confusing
choices such as "Canada multilingual", "Canada multilingual legacy" or
"Canada English legacy"!
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By default, the partitioner
proposes me to install Ubuntu on my largest FAT partition instead of my
existing EXT3 partitions.
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Still in the partitioner, I am
in the French version of the installation and I see buttons labelled
"New partition table", "Edit partition" and "Delete
partition".
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Once the partitionning
completed, the installation program proposes me to import my user
account (regular of course, and not the "root") from my
EduLinux/Mandrake located on another partition, and not the partition
on which I am in the process of installing Ubuntu! That means that it
has automatically mounted all of my Linux partitions
Linux to detect user accounts and propose me to migrate them
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The creation of a user account
is done in only one step, with the full name, the username and the
password all on the same screen rather than separated on multiple
screens one after the other, like in traditional distributions of Linux.
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The boot manager installed by
default is 100% in text mode, all in black and white. It makes several
years that Linux' boot managers are offering the ability to generate
very nice graphical menus, so why not use it?
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The boot manager installed by
Ubuntu has automatically preserved all of the boot options from my
previous boot manager that had been generated by EduLinux/Mandrake (but
has renamed those entries, I don't understand why!).
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The installation program has
never asked me for my desired "root" (administrator) password. It did
configure a password, but never divulged it anywhere... my own
administrator password is UNKNOWN to me!! Fortunately I have sysadmin
tips: "sudo
passwd root"!
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The installation program has
installed for 2.2 GB of software without asking a single question! Some
of them will have to be uninstalled later... It's a chance that I had a
partition of nearly 6 GB!
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It has automatically detected
ALL of my hardware without having to ask me any question! That includes
less popular devices such as a UPS and a TV
tuner.
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Automatically detected and
configured the native resolution of my monitor, that is not a very
standard resolution
(1400x1050). And that is even if the exact model of my monitor was not
listed into its driver list (it finds my monitor has being a "plug and
play monitor").
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The installed version of GIMP is
a "Release Candidate", and no update to the final version is available
via Ubuntu's tools, even though the final version of GIMP 2.4 was
released before the final version of Ubuntu 7.10 .
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Although it automatically
detected my TV tuner, Ubuntu did not install anything to use it, and I
did not find a proper procedure in the help menus. Fortunately, I
already knew a program does does it (XawTV) and that was available
through APT, but even after installing XawTV myself through APT, it was
not working and I had to search for help on Google in order to make it
work! It seems that we must, in my case, launch it that way: "xawtv -nodga -device /dev/video0",
because the simple execution of "xawtv"
without any particular argument was completely refusing to start.
EduLinux 2004, which we expect to be 3 years behind technologically,
had automatically configured my TV card and placed an icon on my
desktop to use it via XawTV... I had only had to select the
broadcast norm that prevails here and that I configure my
channels/frequencies...
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Automatically installs a Java
runtime environment by default, which many other distributions fear to
do because Java is not available under a GPL license.
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The configuration of a printer
managed by a Windows station has been extremely easy and functional by
simply using the little graphical utilities available in the installed
Ubuntu system (which was not possible via the installation program
though, but that is not really important).
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Does not install and does not
even offer a firewall by default. At least, the Ubuntu documentation is
clear on how to install a firewall, unlike the TV tuner.
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