Ubuntu lappy

Wow. I really liked ubuntu. It may not be for geeks(but a contrasting info later) but it is definitely for a desktop user. And more importantly it has the heritage of the ever powerful Debian. I would definitely call this as GNU/Linux ubuntu. It pretty nicely differentiates between proprietary and non-proprietary software. I loved that part when ubuntu pop up at the first startup saying, do you want to continue with this x properitory driver software be enabled. It would be a less common work for m$ windows user though.

And the gnome desktop with Advanced Display technology shines. The laptop battery indicator is a very nice hack. It looks cool and yet very simple. I would definitely recommend it to friends who eat, drink and live redhat / suse / debian for desktop.

I thought ubuntu might not suit building / hacking gnome applications. But i should say it was in ease for me. I just tried a relatively new java-gnome build. It initially threw some dependency heck. But thanks to apt-get. It was way too cool. I was able to resolve dependencies and install. Wow. What more to ask if you are a hacker. Anyway the complete gnome build would be interesting. But still this is pretty cool.