Fluxbuntu so not ready for prime time

By Steven Rosenberg on March 16, 2007 5:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I gave Fluxbuntu another try. You remember Fluxbuntu, the erstwhile child of Ubuntu that's even lighter than Xubuntu?

Before booting, I did a little reading around the Fluxbuntu Web site, and I realized that the Fluxbuntu philosophy is to have you configure just about everything from the command line. CLI they call it -- command-line interface. And CLI is like a religion among the Fluxbuntu people. "CLI never crashes," one said somewhere. So true, but it's hell on a new user.

So I went to Linux Headquarters for info on how to configure a network connection from the command line. I followed the instructions (I had to use sudo because I wasn't logged in as root) and everything seemed go go well. I pinged the router and it worked. But nothing came through Firefox ...

I don't know ... a Linux distribution in which you have to use the command line just to get your Internet going? And Fluxbuntu doesn't even have an "off" utility. You pretty much have to hit the power button to tell the system that you want to shut it down.

If only Damn Small Linux would see my Ethernet card -- DSL-n does. Those are better alternatives in this space, I think.

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