Ubuntu - Part 1

I like messing with the Linux operating system. For me, its a geeky hobby that reminds me of the good old days when I did real computer work, as opposed to my current daily email blizzard. Lately I have mostly used the Fedora distro, with an occassional crack at the Suse Lizard.

But recently I've heard a lot of good press about Ubuntu. I had tried this distro once before, but the weird rootless result totally confused me and I erased it faster than you can say grep.

Fedora, like many distros, comes in a set of five CDs that are downloaded for free from the Internet; usually there is an option for a single DVD download for those technologically advanced enough to own a DVD burner (I do not). Ubuntu varies from this as it comes in a single installable CD. The current version of Ubuntu is 6.06.1, "Dapper Drake". Linux distros normally have a cutesy name, like Breezy Badger, Humpy Hamster, and the like.

So earlier this afternoon, I googled on "Ubuntu torrent" to find the bittorrent file, and saved it to my Windows desktop. I loaded it into uTorrent, which should take a couple hours to download the .iso file, so I'll burn the CD later and process the install.