On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:38:21PM -0700, Mark Osborne wrote:
> This may not be the forum, or it may get covered every week, but be
> gentle, I'm new here...
>
This is the exact forum. We are always gentle, at least at first ;-)
> I am looking for some ideas on the best distro to abandon most of
> Windoze for. Some background.....
>
> I ran Mandrake 9.1 for a while. I had some issues around the WEP key
> for my WiFi, but it seemed like it was fairly stable, and Noob
> friendly.
>
> Forward to HDD crash, and subsequent issues surrounding LiLo, and it
> was back to WIndoze for a while.
>
> Well enough of that....
>
> I have a P5 1.7 Dell from ~2001 that is basically sound. Want to run a
> distro that is user friendly. Want to end my association with the Gates
> Empire, the only challenges are my iPod, and digital photos.
>
> Any hope of going to one machine? My current windoze o/s is getting
> flakey (keeps trying to install new hardware every 10-15 sec that
> doesn't exist...with the subsequent annoying noise and
> interruptions...)
>
> If I need a new box, so be it.
You may not. Trying a Linux install is a good diagnostic of whether the
HW or Windoze is breaking. Many an old box found new life with Linux on
it.
>
> Have been playing with Ubuntu.
>
Many people here seem to like Ubuntu quite a lot.
I've always been a Red Hat guy and am in Fedora Core 4. Red Hat is like
my wife ... I get mad at it every so often, but never enough to leave.
>
> Thoughts?
>
This gets real personal. We have a wide variety of distros in our house
-- Debian, Red Hat, the aforementioned Ubuntu. Sometimes we bicker about
it, but I think we all realize that it's all Linux.
Whichever you use, someone here will be able to answer questions.
Please know that you can get CDs/DVDs of your choice of the latest
releases from the club for a nominal contribution at either the main
meeting (2nd Thursday of the month) or the installfest (usually the
Saturday following the main meeting). At the installfest, highly skilled
carbon-based primates will help you get it on your HW and configured.
> Thanks,
>
>
> Mark
> Nor Cal
>
Nor Cal as in north of Point Concepcion? You might have trouble making
the meetings .... Still, lots of support from the list if you want.
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Lan Barnes
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Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
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in a cask of Madeira, until that time, then to be recalled to life by
the solar warmth of my dear country! But in all probability, we live in
a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to
see such an art brought in our time to its perfection.
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