On Sunday 19 May 2002 14:57, Steven Murdoch wrote: > Hi Kieran, > > At 11:57 19/05/02 +0100, you wrote: > > Because of the peculiar geographic location of our studio, it's a real > > pain to have to keep driving up there and rebooting the machine, so we > > want to move away from Windows. > > I absolutely agree, Linux would be a good move. > > >Any suggestions? I tried Debian the other day but I spent a couple of > >hours swearing and cursing but it just couldn't seem to recognise the > >network card, or if it was then it certainly wasn't using it! > > Debian (as will all the other modern Linux distributions) is compatible > with most hardware, particularly network cards, however what seems to be > the problem is hardware auto-detection, which Debian doesn't do well (yet). > > In which case I might take a look at the latest Mandrake. It has good > hardware auto-detection, and while the last versions needed a lot of HD > space, apparently the latest has a good minimal install that should be > sufficient for your needs. I haven't used Mandrake for a while so can't > confirm it but it might be worth a look. >
The latest Mandrake 8.2 says it will do a minimal install of 65MB, but i would imagine that you'll need more than this to do what you are wanting :) I use mandrake and have not had a problemw ith it. -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
