On 19/11/2007, Ian Thompson-Bell ianbell@ukfsn.org wrote:
Greg Thomas wrote:
o There's no obvious way to get out system information; Device Manager will tell me it's a PIII, but not the speed.
Hardware info gives this as you might expect.
It will tell me I've a PIII Coppermine CPU, but unless I'm missing something, there's no CPU speed.
o There are two package managers (Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager). The former, at least, tells me when there are updates available. I don't know yet if it will include extra packages installed by the latter (e.g. Apache WWW Server).
Update manager will manage updates for everything installed by itself or synaptic.
Well, that's reassuring, at least.
o Disappointed that something as basic as NTP isn't installed by default. Even (spit) Windows has had this since NT4.
Yes, but Windows doesn't have a full blown set of Office apps etc etc etc as standard.
If you do by a Windows PC, it will often come with MS Works, which contains everything bar a presentation package.
So, is Ubuntu not quite as ready for the mainstream as I thought, or have I missed something?
Define mainstream.
Ready for someone who has no interest in the OS other than as a productivity tool.
Greg