I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to be very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like "don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chuckle or two. After starting, a "helpful" pop-up told me that I needed the Nvidia driver if I wanted 3D acceleration and certain other (unspecified) enhancements. It offered to install the driver (after explaining why it was BAD from a free software perspective), so I said OK. I was then offered a choice from the 3 driver versions, without any explanation of which one I needed (I needed the 173 version), and the "recommended" version was the latest (195 version). STRIKE 1! I selected the 173 version and clicked the "activate" button. After some downloading/installing, I was told that I needed to restart the system to use the new driver. IT'S A LIVE CD FOLKS! Restarting of course wiped out the new driver download. STRIKE2! So, I did the download again and this time instead of restarting the system, I just restarted X. Luckily, I know how to kill and restart X because there is no newbie friendly menu selection to do this. Of course, it didn't work because the Nouveau driver got loaded first and kept the Nvidia driver from loading. STRIKE 3! I'm out. Of course, with an installed version of Ubuntu, this process would probably have worked fine. I really wish the best for Ubuntu, but I think I'll stick with Fedora. Sorry for the noise. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
