Dear Philip, Yes I'm still using Zenwalk 6.0 on a Hi Grade notebook with just under half a gigabyte of RAM (don't ask me any more questions about spec. - I haven't got a clue!). I've tried putting on Zenwalk 6.2 and 6.4, Xubuntu and UNR all of which fail on the reboot. Ububntu succeeded, but I think that the spec. is a bit low for it. I must say that I really like Zenwalk (if it worked properly!), it's nice and simple, my wife can't DO with spending her time trying to understand the technology, she just wants it to work.
The main problems are that I can't get a wordprocessor to work on it without glitches and (really annoying) about a third of the time we have to reboot as it doesn't seem to make the proper internet connection (I know what your thinking, but it's nothing to do with the 'signal' strength as it fails to find any, wired or wireless, signals). Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'm pretty clueless about it all. Ben. ________________________________ From: Philip Stubbs <phi...@stuphi.co.uk> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Fri, 6 August, 2010 18:04:52 Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Slight Plea For Help On 6 August 2010 14:38, Benjamin Ashton <benashtonlakel...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > If anyone is willing then I could do with some help. Our version of linux > sort-of works but is also really annoying and seems to fail on some of the > basics. Any attempts that I've made putting on a different distro usually > end in failure. > > Ben > Hi Ben, I can't come round, I am afraid. Actually, I could but not now. Also, I have learnt that I am a rubbish teacher. Anyhow, in case nobody else can help in person, here are a few questions that would help the good folk here guide you a little. * Are you currently still using Zenwalk? * What alternative distro did you have in mind? * Are you still using the same hardware? * What are the hardware specs? * What have you tried? * How did it fail? Hope this helps. -- Philip Stubbs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
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