Playing with Ubuntu

Was in a mood to tinker today. I've had an idol PC sitting around for a while now, so I decided to install Ubuntu Linux on it. So far, I like what I see. It was very easy to install. Just downloaded an iso from www.ubuntu.com, burned it to dvd, booted from the dvd drive, then installed, and all my hardware seems to be working fine. Ubuntu includes a packaging system that makes adding/removing software very easy. In the screenshot below, you can see i have Firefox, Pidgin (multi IM client), terminal (used it to run the Adobe Air installer because it doesn't use the packaging system), Twhirl (twitter client), Gnometris (tetris clone), and the standard Ubuntu File Browser.



I'm definitely impressed with how easy it is to get up and running with Ubuntu. Last time I used Linux was the RedHat distro in college in '96 through 2001. I could definitely see Ubuntu being a great place to do web development (assuming I wasn't using ASP.NET).