= About Me =
 * Member of the English (United Kingdom) translation team.
 * Author of [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-l10n-eng/2006-August/000058.html|GreaseMonkey script]] to streamline translation of English into English.

= My notes on installing Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 =
Good:
 * The livecd boots up, detects the network, firefox works, totem works etc.
 * Not many questions are asked when installing.
 * The questions are easy to answer.
 * The installer seems to guess keyboard layout and English language variant based on selected timezone.
 * bittorrent is included by default.
 * When logging in for the first time, am notified of packages that need to be upgraded.
 * I am notified that I need to reboot after upgrading the kernel, but I am not forced to do so.
 * Simple graphical tool to add/remove common packages.  Option to switch to more complicated graphical tool to install other packages.
 * User switching works.

Bad:
 * The livecd uses a US keyboard layout.
 * The livecd boots slowly.
 * The livecd hung if I tried to do anything while installing, e.g. clicking on the Examples folder, or opening a terminal window.
 The mouse still moved, but I couldn't switch windows.  I could switch to a virtual terminal, but no commands could be run.
 * After telling the installer my timezone, the wrong time is still displayed at the top of the screen.
 * The installer doesn't seem to care if I want my user account to be called "root".
 * The summary page of the installer doesn't say how big the partitions are.
 * After the reboot, a 386 kernel is used.  Surely the installer can guess whether to install a 686 or k7 kernel.
 The 386 kernel does not have SMP enabled, so only one CPU is being used.
 Nothing notifies me that I need to install a different kernel.
 * No gvim in default install.
 * The binary nvidia kernel driver is in the kernel, but the binary nvidia Xorg driver is not installed.
 Nothing notifies me that I need to install this.
 The kernel is tainted for no reason.