(please start a new thread with a new subject when you post about
unrelated topics..)
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0600, Kenneth Koym wrote:
> Recommend what you'd do with a laptop Dell Inspiron 7000 that went down
> 3.5 weeks back. A dell tech said, "You have a shorted motherboard video
> card; send it to the repair depot, pay $699. I moved my info [3.4 gig]
> to my PC connecting the laptop HD as a slave then reinstalled it to the
> HD. Now the monitor works and the files can be seen
man, that doesn't speak well of dell to recommend a $700 repair that
wasn't needed! good move on a self-"repair".
> but the XP ops sys
> tries to reinstall/I have only a copy; Am thinkin if I have to
> reinstall, to go directly to Linux; there is only 2.5 gig available .
that should be plenty of room.
> Is
> there a Linux that's recently issued which does not have to be updated
> immediately to run optimally?
fedora and debian are pretty well out, if that's your goal.
unfortunately suse (which is a distribution i'd recommend for
beginning users) hasn't had a release lately so there would be
substantial update-download required. mandrake appears top be in the
same boat as far as official releases at least.
maybe someone else can suggest a beginner-friendly distro that's had
a recent release (and you should still update no matter what you end
up installing, to be safe--not patching security problems is likely
to cause big problems if you ever get online), you're just looking for
one that was released recently so there won't be so many updates to
download.
once you pick a distro you can always buy a CD online instead of
downloading.
http://www.cheapbytes.com
is one of my favorite vendors (tho i haven't used them in years)
as a portal for "cheaper than the time you'd spend downloading"
CD's made from free distributions.
they have a mandrake update CD from 16 feb if you wanted to try the
previous release (10.0 is in late beta as i understand it, but
cheapbytes will sell you 9.2.1 for $7).
hope that helps.
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