I'm running the same setup as you, and it has been great. Ubuntu is the first ( of many, many attempts ) distribution I have tried that has passed my personal "is it ready for prime time?" test, which is, I never have to touch the command line to do what I want to do. Ever. That's not to say I don't go in there for the fun of it, but that I don't have to makes all the difference.
David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.upstatedigitools.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion I did the same thing with my HP TX1000. Most of the features worked with Ubuntu out of the box, but some things still don't work with XP. The laptop was designed for Vista and came with Vista and some of the drivers are not available for XP. I often wondered how Ubuntu had the drivers but XP does not. On my desktop I only installed Ubuntu and am running XP and (will run) Vista (for testing) in Virtual Box. I might note that the level of support from the Linux community is tremendous whenever I have encountered a problem. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Phoenix Python User Group - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ed Leafe wrote: > On Aug 20, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Gil Hale wrote: > >> I just turned my HP ze2000 laptop into a dual-boot XP Pro/Ubuntu >> Linux machine the other night. I guess I got boted <g>. Seriously, >> now I surf fearlessly on the laptop. I was surprised at how easily >> the laptop accepted Ubuntu 8.04, and how all WiFi and Ethernet >> connectivity just plain old worked. Very smooth. > > Please don't tell people this. You're smashing their comforting image > of using the only trouble-free OS available: Windows. They want to > believe that anything else is difficult to install and use, and won't > work with most hardware. So please stop bursting their bubbles. > > -- Ed Leafe > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
