UberStudent Linux Fail

Uber Disappointing Linux


Now, far be it from me to make the "official judgement" but from my experience last night and this morning UberStudent didn't make the grade. I'm just going to sum up my lasting impression right out the gate: bloated. UberStudent ran slugish and had way too many packages. I think optimization and simplification is the best course of action for the people working on Uber.

Now the hardware I was running it on isn't the best so I figured I'd give their LXDE version a try. LXDE is a light-weight window manager for X sever. It generates the little boxes that applications run in and handles most of the actual graphical user Interface (GUI). LXDE is a lot like it's peers XFCE and GNOME. GNOME is the default window manager for a Ubuntu install. This CD and not DVD sized operating system needs some work in the visuals department. Although the applications/panel menu well thought out and I like the categories the application shortcuts are organized into, the over all visual feel of the system feels incomplete. It lacks the elegance of a distrobution like Linux Mint that also runs a mod version of the Ubuntu/Debian kore and comes in I think four total reconfigurations. These configurations include: KDE, GNOME, FLUXBOX, and I think a bare Debian spins as well.

UberStudent Linux 1.0
Visuals: 3
Packages: 8 (but a little on the bloated side)
Install: 2
Usability: 3


Over All: FAIL


Alternative Suggestions:
               -Linux Mint

UberStudent Linux

UberStudent The Linux Distro for Learners


So I sorta stumbled this distribution of Linux called UberStudent. It Promising a ton out of the box made me think, I'd give it a try. With an up coming Netbook Edition thats mostly going to be run in the cloud I wanted to know how much they might be planing to run out of the cloud.

One thing I would like to point out is that the mirrors and torrents for this live image where bunk. I don't know if thats in efforts to try and sell pre-burnt copies or what but it's annoying.

My install is going quite well The graphical installer in really nice. I personally like the texted based installers with networking or at least the option. But this installer looks pretty slick and feels comfortable. I guess you could boot it into the console and exsacute the proper commands to install all the packages off the disk after partitioning the drive and run an apt-get update. Unless your running on some extra slow hardware your not going to need to do that and your going to do just fine with the graphical installer.

Now I'm installing this across the entire drive but anyone could easily run this or any current Ubuntu based livedisk and shrink the existing partition say, a windows partition and install Uber at the end of the disk on a separate partition. When installing a windows / Linux dual boot system your going to need a boot loader so you can pick to run either operating system at startup. The default is the grub boot loader in most modern Linux systems. UberStudent will install a boot loader when installing after an preexisting partition. Now the easy way to do this is to install Linux after Windows or you'll have hard times replacing the windows MBR that you will have installed over the Grub. Simply install windows first then Linux almost always.

UberStudent is a "BIG OS". I think it sets up to be something close to 3x the normal install size of just Ubuntu. So good thing the install process GUI is pretty, You'll be looking at the install screen for a long time....

                                                                              *Start the installer directly 

                                                -boots into a graphical installer

More in a little while when this thing is done...