Comments on: Ubuntu Edgy Eft beta

By: Siyaset

Siyaset — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:46:25 +0000

Improvements have been made all around such as faster system boot up times, faster GNOME start up times, improvements to the user interface, a shiny new optimized kernel, GNOME 2.16, and much, much more.

By: Jeffrey Henderson

Jeffrey Henderson — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:44:41 +0000

Installed “edgy eft” last weekend and I’m loving it. And then I added Beryl, wow. I honestly believe that with better hardware compatibility that Ubuntu could spell serious trouble for Vista.

By: Simon80

Simon80 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:13:41 +0000

Ryan: you most definitely don’t have to recompile your kernel. Compiling a loadable kernel module is a lot less of a pain than compiling your own kernel. However, you don’t even have to do that. If you’re still using Ubuntu, get the fuse-utils package, and then see:

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/

By: Matthew McEachen

Matthew McEachen — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:27:51 +0000

Matt, try OpenVPN: http://openvpn.net/ — I had it running on my ubuntu box in less than an hour. The config is easy and the ssl key generation has helper scripts that hold your hand through the process (they install into /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa). There are a bunch of pointy-clicky GUI clients for windows and OS X.

There are known security issues with the PPTP protocol (http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/protocol-security.phtml) which make it a less-favorable solution.

By: Kletskous

Kletskous — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:19:50 +0000

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By: mat

mat — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:07:08 +0000

Try using network-manager for VPNing. You’ll need some plugins, not sure they are present in ubuntu, but I’m pretty sure you can find ready-to-use .debs easily. Agreed it should be present by default, though.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:01:31 +0000

I fell in love with ubuntu until I realized that I couldn’t mount an ftp site as a hard drive so that I can have my text editor upload directly to the ftp site under wine….without re compiling my kernel.

while some of you may enjoy it, I should never have to do such a thing…ever.

The linux distro that lets me install and configure stuff without having to compile code will win my business.

ubuntu is almost there.

By: jake

jake — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:35:28 +0000

There is a simply awesome VPN utility out there that adds on to the Network Manager (the cool wifi controller thing you can add to your panel). It works exactly as expected, for me, under PPTP.

For the love of me, I can’t remember where I found it, but I use it all the time and it works great. Just letting you know the answer is out there somewhere.

By: drive-by poster

drive-by poster — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:43:28 +0000

Mike–

I haven’t had much experience with Ubuntu (it’s on my list of techno-”todos” but that list is pretty long at the moment) but my sense about the “our way or no way” thing is, that Ubuntu is trying to make Linux more approachable for the not-so-sophisticated user who doesn’t actually want to make choices about very many things…

I’ve been working with computers daily since 1977, have a CS and EE degree, >15 years of work as a developer including 7 years in Unix environments… and I find Linux daunting enough that I can’t be bothered, unless I have to for some job. Given my druthers, for a day-to-day computing platform, I’ll take Windows most of the time because a lot of things just work “well enough”, without my having to make decisions about them. I can focus on my actual task at hand.

I’m not some great Microsoft partisan– but Linux makes me think too often about too many things.

By: David Maple

David Maple — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:28:09 +0000

Mike –
You should be able to hit F2 during boot to get the verbose output that you are missing. I haven’t tried it in edgy though . . . let me know if that works.