[ale] My Linux experience, so far

[Dow_Hurst]

Glad to hear your experimenting.  I think you be pleased in the end with some distro.  Everyone has their favorite.  Typically the polish of the scripts and programs that make hardware seamless makes a big impression on users.  Hackers tend to like install/uninstall ease.  And, I think everyone over a certain age believes you should try Slackware....

Just kidding around there. ;)

Seriously though, trying Ubuntu is great and gives you the feel of a polished Debian with lots of bells, whistles, and eye candy.  You should try out Centos, Redhat, or Novell/Suse for a rpm based experience.  Maybe Gentoo would be interesting as well for the "compile it yourway" type of distro.

Demo Codeweavers CXoffice if you want to try out a Windows application in a Linux environment.

Most laptops are difficult to have work well out of the box for any distro.  So unless you have very common older hardware you will have some real problems.  Centrino based laptops with Intel graphics or Nvidia graphics tend to do okay.  Extra non opensource software could be available for Ubuntu that would make a difference.  Loading a later kernel can make a huge difference on a laptop.

Please post any questions or problems you might run into as lot's of people here love to solve problems!
Best wishes,
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Billy049 <Billy049 at peoplepc.com>
>Sent: Oct 8, 2006 6:22 PM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] My Linux experience, so far
>
>I tried Ubuntu and had the Best Data modem up and running in just a few 
>minutes.  I was well pleased with that.
>Then I installed Kubundu.  I love the colors, but hours have passed and 
>still the modem isn't working.  The docs say there is supposed to be a 
>wizard in KPPP but I have yet to see it.  Sometimes the mouse quits 
>working and rebooting will bring it back to life.  I'm just scratching 
>the Linux surface but it is interesting.  As free time increases, I'll 
>probably get more involved with it.  A magazine oriented toward the new 
>user would be helpful so I'll look for something of that nature. 
>
>I booted each one on my laptop from the CD.  Ubundu wouldn't work past 
>loading but Kubundu did well, just a tad slow from
>running off the CD.
>
>Carry on. 
>
>Bill Grubbs
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