It's actually really good. I prefer the Debian package management system over the Red Hat package management system because it is just so much faster.

I will be checking out Fedora 9 also, but Ubuntu 8.04 is a real winner so far.

Sure, it is a bit Windows-ish out of the box, but after some tweaking it can be stripped down to the essentials, and it's very resource friendly. There's a lot of gui-fication but hey, it's actually not a bad thing as there is less room for error. Hardware support is excellent and it supports the Intel Wireless 2100 802.11b chip in this Dell Latitude D505.

Of course, I used the alternative text-based installer, the graphical installer is simply the worst.

Do you like screenshots?

Pidgin in front of Firefox


Picking up some wireless networks


Firefox, VLC and System Monitor


Is that... UAC?


The incredible Synaptic Package Manager


OpenOffice.org 2.4


Plugins in Firefox (after I installed Flash)


Looking for the Adobe Flash player in Synaptic Package Manager


Synaptic found it for me, so I selected to install it


I confirmed that I wanted to install it


Installing...


Configuring...


Done!


The System Monitor is pretty swish in this version of Ubuntu


File Browser is pretty much the same, it just looks nice


A rubbish forum

Update Manager had an update over the weekend it seems...



It's now categorised, similar to PackageKit in Fedora but Update Manager is very fast unlike PackageKit.

whats ubuntu?

Linux

One of the better Linux distros, I believe.

is it better than fedora core?

Yes, without a doubt.

Fedora 9 is awful in comparison.

I personally used Fedora in the past, but the Fedora distribution has lost direction recently - it has an awful installer and the base configuration requires a whopping 3 CD's... and seems to provide nothing more than Ubuntu's 1 CD installation - which is quicker by the way!