The LIVE-CD gives me a blank screen on my IBM Thinkpad
The INSTALL-DVD still doesn't have a graphical installer
I asked for a desktop build and (unless I misread something) its only created a root user and I first have to log in as that

I'm afraid I'm going to stick with gNewSense & Xubuntu for the moment at least for my desktops and notebooks !

OSDE Open Source Free Software Tolworth Computer Fair

May 28, 2007
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Ubuntu 6.06 and 7.04 are now both broken !

May 26, 2007
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Ubuntu 6.06
breaks after running update manager !

and

Ubuntu 7.04
is broken from the beginning!

cannot install on 800x600 screen
disk partitioner refuses to overwrite debian partition
WiFi is broken (duplicate adapters and neither works)
USB mouse becomes dead paperweight after just three minutes
VMware Server 1.0.3 does not install (even if you download all of the dozens of fixs and patches available on the web)

I'm going to switch to gNewSense or might even pay Red Hat the £40 they are asking for Red Hat Desktop Linux 5 !

Ubuntu 6.06

It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first.

Does this help ?

# apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: samba Recommended packages: smbldap-tools The following packages will be upgraded: samba 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2849kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 99900 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace samba 3.0.22-1ubuntu3.2 (using .../samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu 3.3_i386.deb) ... invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 102 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/S91samba dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.3_i386. deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 102 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

No it doesn't !

Ubuntu 7.04
# lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80) 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 80) 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] 09:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 09:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 09:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)