Moved to Ubuntu

Well after playing with the downloadable live cd from Ubuntu last night, I decided that I would make the move permanent. I've been a long time user of Redhat starting back with version 2.0 which I installed on a 386 back in 1996. I gave linux up for many years sticking only with MacOSX via my office computer, but when it came time to buy a home PC I knew that there was no way I was going to load windows. Being that while I love Macs, I refuse to pay the price tag. So I once again looked back to Linux. I first gave BSD a try since it is the back bone of MacOSX, but while I was able to quickly get it running, getting app was a pain especially when it came to java... From there I went to Mandrake but when they merged with Connectiva and ditched the Redhat kernel, I decided to go back to Redhat. Of course this was along the same time that Redhat formed Fedora and I did not wish to go that route or pay for RHEL. Well some at the NWS pointed me at the RHEL clone: ScientificLinux. That worked out well for several months until I got tired of waiting for updates. From there I went to the more popular Centos. Centos was nice and had an extremely similar look and feel to that of the actual RHEL (which I have on several work related machines. This to served me very well, until I finally purchased a LCD monitor (Viewsonic VX2035wm). Being a widescreen monitor, I unfortunately discovered that I was going to be a lot of work to get the resolution right. In steps Ubuntu. I was searching for a solution to my widescreen problem when I ran across several forum entries where people mentioned that they had no problems with widescreens and Ubuntu linux. So I clicked over to Ubuntu.com and started to dig around. Nicely enough, they had a downloadable Live/Install CD. Well naturally I quickly downloaded it for the AMD64 bit processor (then the x386 and then the PPC). I also started to remember a number of article about Google and Ubuntu.... so I went home and boot up the CD. To my great surprise everything worked great. My monitor looked great and all my accessories looked fine. So I started the installer. I must say that installing from a Live Linux CD has its advantages.... instant access to the internet while things load... if you have questions you can google them from the same machine that you are installing Ubuntu on. Anyways... to make this long story short, I've got my machine back up and running with Ubuntu and it looks great... of course I promptly killed it by not carefully restoring my files and consequently I over rose something... oh well time to start the process over again.