Today I did an install of Ubunto. It went smoothly.

I know I should try the most recent Debian Installer for sarge...

But after all, the hardware was a really standard system, the configuration probably sold a million of times, nothing that could go wrong. And it only is a temporary installation, desktop, so nice to try out Ubuntu.

As far as I can tell, Ubunto is very desktop-oriented, isn't it? Not that that would be bad (I'd choose Debian for Server anyway), but I wasn't really aware of this orientation. I would have expected it to ask me at least wheter I want to setup a desktop or server.

I have only logged in and out, not tried working on it yet. The next days I'll add Eclipse, Java and such, since the box will serve as a Java development machine. Two more machines with the same config to follow.