On Wednesday 10 October 2007 03:42:57 pm Ben Scott wrote: > On 10/10/07, Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vista is one sick OS. It may just be the crapware > > installed, but it is slow and easily confused. > > Bloatware is a huge problem. If possible, I recommend a clean > install from an OS disc without OEM-added bloatware. (Whether that's > an option depends on what the OEM gives you, and I don't know if the > Vista licensing rules even allows that.) > > > What live CD (DVD) distribution would you recommend. > > Of all the live CD distros I've tried, I've had the best luck with > Ubuntu in the "just works" department (especially when it comes to > laptops with wireless networking, which all seem to belong to the > chipset-of-the-month-club).
Bleah. Ubuntu gusty is crapping all over itself on a ~2 year old Dell Precision 470 workstation right now... Corrupted bootsplash screen for 5 minutes, then finally dropped to text console and said something about one of the services failing to start. After another 5 minutes, it finally got to the login screen, said user 'ubuntu' would login in 10 seconds. User logged in, and was promptly dumped, back to a message "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds ..." (nice engrish there). Huh. I was going to suggest possibly a bad burn, but upon looking at .xsession-errors, I see a warning about some gtk+ stuff trying to run setuid, and it not being supported, and a refusal to initialize gtk+. Closely followed by 'Could not launch dbus-daemon', because dbus_daemon_pid != 0... Granted, its pre-release software, but ouch... So stay away from today's gusty, I guess. :) > > Also, whatever live distribution I try, what would you recommend for a > > dual boot setup. > > Knoppix isn't (or wasn't) really designed for permanent install. > It's focused on being a live CD, and updates are (were?) not that > frequent. I've installed knoppix to HD a time or two, and from there, just pointed apt at debian repos for updates. Might not be 100% kosher, but it worked for me at the time... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
