[Oorexx-devel] Ubuntu: *quite* impressive !

[Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...>]

Hi there,

paying tribute to the popularity of Ubuntu/Kubuntu (Debian based, with
GNOME or KDE respectively) around here, and also motivated by Michael
Lueck's endeavor to get an ooRexx port and installation package, I
installed it in a VMWARE on my laptop over the weekend.

The installation and its configuration (including detecting/handling
screen resolutions and audio) went incredibly smooth. It literally
needed not more than ten button presses and installed gracefully. Am
truly very impressed about the ease and also about the nice organisation
of packages and ease of handling them. Not been exposed to a Debian
Linux myself, it was nevertheless a breeze to find a JRE 5 (from Sun)
install package with replaced the original freejava install (in
preparation for BSF4Rexx tests, once a working ooRexx is available).

Choosing the "Location" ("Orte" in German) on the top tool-bar and
"Network-Servers" allowed me to access all of my Windows shares from
within Ubuntu running in a VM, which is just great  for sharing and/or
moving files! Supposedly, WLAN and Bluetooth support are functional and
rather easy (besides "adding/removing applications" lists nicely grouped
and formatted additional tools to detect, configure, attach and detach
from them).

So, if you have a Laptop (PC is just easier) and do not want to waste
much time in studying installation and configuration stuff in order to
arrive at a running Linux, Ubuntu may be well worth a try. I understand
that installing it onto systems that have other operating systems
installed already is fine (at the moment six GB should).

Regards,

---rony

P.S.: It is for the first time that I would get the feeling that such a
Linux installation would be feasible for "pure" Windows users, actually
the installation might be even considerably easier than Windows for them.