Well I have the machine running the
Edgy Eft now and aside from the fact that I could not get it to do an in place upgrade from its Dapper Drake self, and it took me two attempts before I got it installed to my satisfaction I like it. For the record I did not try the Desktop install CD but instead used the alternate install CD not to say the Desktop CD would not have worked I have just always done it this way. However once I got it running I found it very suitable. I am running the 2.6.17-10-generic kernel with the nvidia-glx drivers offered from the restricted repositories and both cores of my AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ are recognized. I was able to get sound out of all my speakers without to much trouble and as I did with the Dapper Drake I am using mplayer with mozilla-mplayer packages to handle most Internet based multimedia needs such as playing WMV files from sites such as CNN. Flash just worked this time so no tweaks were need to get sound in flash videos. I have net dabbled with my wireless card as for the moment I am using the onboard ethernet port and a
wireless bridge client so I can not say how easy or difficult it is to get WPA-PSK working. I may give it whirl later. The
printer/scanner I use was recognized and works perfectly. I didn't try to setup SLI with the video cards as that has been problematic in the past. Goals for this latest incarnation of Ubuntu include setting up a webcam and maybe installing some virtualization software and trying to get some Windows applications to run.
