Yes, replying after a long time, actually I had an accident last Saturday 16 june, a serious one. Though I have recovered from it now, but I had been rolled up in bandages for past week. So as I said, I have finally switched to Ubuntu and I must say, its good.
It has almost every sound and graphics driver preinstalled, so no need worrying about it. The best part was it took only 15 mins as compared to 90 mins for rhel. Though it doesn't have all those addon features but it is easy to use and bugs free. The best part is I am using it for over 1 week and it didn't crash even once. Though twice my keyboard stop responding, but atleast its better than the file system error that I got in Red hat. File system is fine.
That day I came to know that Ubuntu doesn't allow you to login as root by default. You need to configure its settings from user accounts section and reset the new password for root. Well to configure my windows ntfs files into linux partition I relived the problems I faced in Red Hat. This time I did exactly the same as I did in rhel to install ntfs-3g drivers but it didn't help. So I went to ubutuforums for help. Well i must say, a really good site to work out any problem from Ubuntu. So following the steps I was able to successfully mount my windows partitions in read and write mode. Though I faced a little problem which unmounting, that's not the main issue.
Internet connection from pppoe was again not easy. There was no option to connect via this protocol. I mean they have not built the GUI to set up a point to point protocol via ethernet connection, so again ubuntuforum came to rescue. They said that i need to configure it from terminal by using 'pppoeconf'. So now my internet is also working fine. All I am wating now is for new month where I would get my download limit back and I can download some updates for ubuntu and some associate services. Another good thing bout ubuntu is that it starts quicker than rhel. I guess the Ubuntu development group has done a great work this time.
My next attempt is to run apache successfully on it and configure it for php and ruby on rails. I guess it should not be that difficult, coz it provide me with a "LAMP" module which need to be configured. So lets hope that i will not need to shift to any other linux in the coming days. But as long as ubuntuforums remain active, i guess i would not hit a roadblock.
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