I so wish I could get Arch working on my laptop. I've tried the last 2 releases and whenever I connect to wifi - my wifi chipset is ipw2100 - whenever I try to put a large amount of info through it - like streaming a video, the connection always drops. BTW - my router is a Linksys WRT54G2 with dd-wrt firmware. I'm using WPA2 encryption and have tried both Network Manager and Wicd. I've tried asking on the Freenode #archlinux channel and all they can say is to physically connect my laptop to the router when I want to watch streaming media. That is just not an option for me. Do you possibly have any words of wisdom, Mr Bess... or anybody else for that matter???
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm not one of them, but there seems to be a huge flock of people to Linux > Mint. I see tons of blog reviews and Google+ > postings<https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/linuxmint>about it. I personally have > moved from Mandriva to Arch Linux on my desktop > and ArchBang on my lappy. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six > > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:10, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have tried openSuSE 12.1. There are pluses and minuses for an Ubuntu >> user. OpenSuSE has GNOME Shell 3.2 which is available for Ubuntu and >> KDE 4.7.3, same as Kubuntu. Those are neither pluses nor minuses, but >> show that your desktop environment should not dictate your move. >> Rather you need to choose based on community, support, available >> packages, package management, etc. >> >> OpenSuSE is one of the premier implementations of Btrfs. It is the >> default file system. KDE is the default desktop, but you can choose >> GNOME, XFCE or LXDE versions. Btrfs is more complicated to setup, but >> it has a nice feature to do snapshots and rollbacks. It has something >> called Snapper to enable this. OpenSusE also features something called >> Tumbleweed that in effect can change it to a rolling release. >> >> OpenSuSE 12.1 has some exciting features, but on the downside is that >> it is an unfamiliar package management system for Ubuntu users (rpm >> and Yast). It can be tricky to run for newbies. There is a bit of a >> learning curve that you should be prepared for. It can become unstable >> quickly if you do not know what you are doing, in my experience. >> Support is good, but not as good as Ubuntu. The community is much >> smaller. You also have smaller repositories and lose PPAs. >> >> As with all distros it comes down to choice and what you expect and want. >> >> Roy >> >> Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit >> Location: Canada >> >> >> >> On 7 December 2011 21:59, Kari <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Actually I was thinking the same thing. I haven't looked outside of >> Ubuntu >> > in quite a while -- it is time to try something new. OpenSuSE would be >> fun >> > to try. >> > >> > And I think the group is just quiet. >> > >> > ~kari >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ben Chavez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Did the group got quiet or am I exclude from receiving mail from it? >> Has >> >> anyone tried the new OpenSuSE release yet? I think it is the 12.1 >> release. I >> >> have been thinking on get away from Ubuntu after 3 years using it so I >> am >> >> thinking on an rpm base distro just to learn something different. >> >> LinuxMint which is ranking up high I think is just second after Ubuntu >> it >> >> is actually a derivative from ubuntu so installing that it wont get me >> much >> >> far from ubuntu. >> >> Take care and happy hollidays! >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> >> Group. >> >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> For more options, visit our group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> >> >> >> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >> >> or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Kari Matthews >> > o: 630.457.1600 >> > c: 630.448.0865 >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> > Group. >> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> > For more options, visit our group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> > Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or >> > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- <>< Scott Vargovich <>< ------------------------------------------ OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E ------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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