From: "Thees Peereboom" 

Mike,

Sofar it looks good, is speedy (even in a VM) and hasn't crashed yet.

- Thees Peereboom

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:48:41 +0200, /m  wrote:

>
> I didn't find the Ubuntu root password either.  However, they handle
> privilege escalation without the never-ending series of prompts that I
> ran into with Vista.
>
>   /m
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:46:19 +0200, "Thees Peereboom"
>  wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Funny you ask just today. I installed Ubuntu today (in a VMware machine)
>> and am quite impressed with version 6.06. Flawless installation (except
>> that I yet have to find out how to get to the root password), looks very
>> good, lots of software, etc.
>>
>> I intend to start using it in a VM on a daily basis and see how far I
>> get.
>> It might be that I will switch from Windows with Linux in a VM to Linux
>> with Windows in a VM - this WGA mess doesn't help Windows much.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:31:24 +0200, Mike N. 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:20:57 +0100, Adam
>>> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's this which will sell linux faster than anything. It just has to
>>>> be
>>>> good enough.
>>>
>>>    It has become clear that for certain critical processes, that I need
>>> to
>>> add Linux to my bag.   Foisting off WGA crap onto users has become more
>>> important to Microsoft than anything else, including system stability.
>>>
>>>    What's everyone's favorite distribution?  Has Ubuntu lived up to its
>>> promises?



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