Ubuntu 8.10 + ubuntu restricted extras + official Ubuntu updates = Ubuntu extras remix
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What are some of the specific troubles?
It won’t install. I’ve gotten the CD burned just fine (two, or perhaps three versions), but it will neither boot nor install. The official Ubuntu book has a DVD inside the back cover, and I bought the total waste of money (the book, IMHO), only to find that it was a DVD (the text refers to it as a CD throughout) and I had but one machine available which had a DVD-ROM in it (these are mostly castoffs from work, and all of the Wintel hardware I have is 1990s vintage), which (after a bunch of tries) finally installed and then rebooted off the hard drive with success (the second reboot). That machine didn’t come home with me, alas. Pretty desktop, and I’m sure it would do fine as a surfer OS etc.
Anyway, thanks!