[ubuntu-in] Two questions about 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi Friends,

Thanks for the many replies on Ubuntu 10.04 , they were mostly lucid ;-)

Seems like its been a good ride so far, no major issues, which is really good.

Am guessing as soon as i can get hold of a copy.

Which brings me to the second question (below)

My 9.10 occupies about 12 Gig of space (and lots is available)

/dev/sda7              22G   12G  8.3G  59% /

I know from experience from 9.10 that is overloaded with multiple
programmes for everything. (since i installed the Ultimate Version)
the good thing was everything worked out of the box (specially media
codecs). The disadvantage obviously too many things meaning a lot more
updates.

Am not convinced that the default Ubuntu available for download is a
good option - it requires too much tweaking and setting up to many
things - esp if one has to do it in more that 1 machine. ( i will end
up upgrading Ubuntu on 6 machines all in different physical locations
none of who have any decent internet) So the requirement is clear -
find a distro that is basically packed full of stuff and then do the
needful systematically on the individual machines.

Jobs included in the individual machines are
1. Localizing fonts (copy fonts to a /home/foouser/.fonts directory
2. Setting up local language keyboard and multiple language options
3. Setting up 2 or 3 different internet access methods (making sure
they work - like the Network Manager in 9.10 works for some and does
not for others) some of which need a wvdial.conf script
4. Setting up Google earth / skype ??
6. Setting up offline dictionaries (and artha)
7. Installing programmes that Ubuntu has dropped (gimp, gthumb,
scribus etc) and many others that never ever come by default (marble,
nut-nutrition,
 and some more that i cannot remember right now
8. Setting up virtual box
9. There are a whole lot of system tweaks - setting up autoback up in
openoffice (for example) eyc

I guess you get the picture , so each machine takes a fair bit of time
and since this is voluntary work (i enjoy seeing the latest and the
bestest running and then see people get happy to have a new version to
enjoy) but it is still a pain in the your know where, jst sitting
around waiting for each machine to.

Am thinking this time i will just do a system upgrade and then check
for broken packages and then redo those. So am waiting to get my hands
on the latest full 7-8 DVD repos. (see question below)

and since its LTS i guess it will be stable for some time.

> Second Question
>
> are there folks selling 10.04 DVD's and the repository If so who has them
>
> and related to this - is it worth waiting a month before installing 10.04 -
> seems like there is always stuff that works better after a month of corrections
>
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So again look forward to your thoughts and of course where i could get
the dvd repos.

regards
ram