After finishing with the video card I moved on to the new DVD writer I purchased in the same order. I believe it is about time we start offering our farm sales videos on DVD. We hardly use our VHS anymore except to create sales tapes. The installation was pretty straightforward. All the plugs matched the new CD-ROM and I set the Master/Slave jumper to match the exisiting configuration. Then I deleted the demo of Nero Burning before I installed the Roxio Easy CD Creator that came with the CD-ROM. To test it I downloaded the live Ubuntu ISO and copied it to a blank CD. It took me awhile to figure out how to do it since help was not helpful. To burn an ISO you use Record Disc from Image function located in the File menu. The first time I tried it I failed to create a bootable disc. I think that was because I thought it had to be part of a project. Instead of creating a disc image on the CD it copied the ISO onto the disk. Well, that was a waste of time!
I booted Ubuntu and it is slim and slick. It looks nice and is quite usable by a novice like me. I was pleased to see it correctly probed my hardware and the resulting configuration was very quick. At first looks this distribution looks like a tough competitor to Windows.