UBUNTU Linux: my impressions

Today is the linux day in Italy. I downloaded ubuntu distro and I installed it in a vmware workstation. My impressions are positive: i like the live installer cd, you can choose to use it as a live distro or install to your hd to release its full potential.

One important thing was the choose to lock the root account, so the install process was simpler and you cannot neither login as root or use the su command to run superuser commands. You have to use sudo for commands that require root privileges.

The distro come with openoffice.org, graphics, instant messaging and many other programs. I think government institutions, schools and also small businesses can give it a try.

I also installed netbeans, eclipse and jdk of course, all it’s very fast, I like it!

See you next time!