Ubuntu 7.04,great OS

I had recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Pawn in my system.


After I had installed it,I found the GNOME enviroment is not bad,although I like KDE a lot.There are updates always from its official website and the apt-get is easy to use.

But the multimedia is quite dissappointing,with less multimedia application which I think wouldn't be good if I want to do any multimedia related acivity.But of course I can get extra program using Synaptic Pacakage Manager or apt-get command.

My pehripherals were easy to be configured,my printer works using CUPS but I haven't tried yet to configure my CanoScan FB 330P which is still working although it had been 10 years old.

The office application is same as others,it had OpenOffice as Office application and the other which I forgoted to mention.Anyway I will update this post with a screenshot from my Ubuntu.

Actually the only office application in Ubuntu is OpenOffice package and Evolution and of course,you could get extra office apps with using apt-get install.

Overall I think Ubuntu is good only in Synaptic Package Manager and it's great support,otherwise it will be same as the other OS.

Rating:7.5 out of 10.

Next OS to review:SAM Linux

OPENSUSE 10.2 view

I recently installed OpenSuse 10.2 on my computer.

The installation went quite smoothly,the GUI of the installation page are very helpful and I get a lot of choices on how I'm going to install OpenSuse.

I choose to install GRUB on the /root partition instead of the MBR since I'm going to load Opensuse using Windows Bootloader,ntldr.

It took me about 2 hours and 30 minutes to install it and configuring my printer,Epson Stylus C65.The printer is configured easily,thanks to CUPS and gutenprint.
I install it using 6 installation cd(including Non-OSS addons) since I didn't have a DVD writer.

Overall it's quite good,but I personally think the GUI(I install KDE) is only average and I expect more of it since the installation took 8GB+.

THe packages in opensuse is managed using YaST.I think YaST is not bad but I think Snaptic Package Manager is better because it can install your dependacies and I think it will ease users even more.

THe browser includes Konqeror and Firefox 2.0,so I went to http://software.opensuse.org to get the latest firefox there.I install is using YaST and it took me about 3 minutes and soon I'm running the latest version of Firefox.

The multimedia section is average,with most of the aplications cannot play .mp3 files in a directory so I have to always open my folder and click on the .mp3 file to hear my music.

So I went to http://videolan.org to download VLC player.I followed the instruction in the site and I'm required to insert installation CD1 during the installation.

I gave the rate of 7.5/10 for Opensuse 10.2