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hi. the only downside to the new distro is that it does not like older computers On 5/10/07, Anton Channing <m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know why, but I recently got restless and > decided to change my distro. Since I haven't posted > in a while, I'll give a bit of background: > > *First failed attempt:* > Debian GNU/Linux Woody. Failed to get graphics driver > to work. > > *First Distro:* > Mandrake (can't remember which version). > I liked it, but didn't manage to set it up as well as > I'd have liked. > > *Second Distro:* > SuSE. (again, no idea of version). > Success, even got my girlfriend at the time (a > technophobe) to use it instead of windows for > everything except playing worms (the only game she > played). > > *Third Distro:* > Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > Old SuSE PC was left with old girlfriend. > > Had some problems with sound at first, but thanks > to help on this list I got it to work. Slowly > learned my way around command line. Now when I > am in work and have to use a dos prompt, I often > find myself typing ls backspace backspace dir! > This distro served me well for what must be over > two years? Main programs used KDE desktop (I > kind of prefered GNOME in many ways, but had > problems getting kmail to work unless I used KDE), > kmail, konqueror, firefox, kate, kedit, gimp, > kooka. Had problems getting mike to work for > skype, although earphones worked fine. Mike > volume seemed greyed out in master volume > controls. > > *LATEST DISTRO* > Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. > Backed up important files and installed it over > the old debian instalation. Not necessarilly > planning to stay with Ubuntu but thought I'd take > a look because I felt like it. > > Impressed. Installation was simpler than installing > most windows applications, only thing that would > through a non-techie would be the drive formatting > bit, but I'm guessing that only a techie would attempt > to create a dual boot system anyway, so a non techie > would probably just stick with the default options. > > Sound worked straight off too. Didn't like Evolution > much. Replaced it with Thunderbird. Managed to > configure Thunderbird the way I like email progs set > up (like kmail). > > I used to use konqueror for ftp. I now use the > FireFTP plugin for FireFox. Far superior anyway. > I used to use kate to edit php pages. After > experimenting with screem, gphpedit and gedit, > I have found that gedit is by far my favourite. > > GIMP preinstalled. > > Oh, and I bought a LAN HDD to facilitate the > sharing of files between winxp, linux and the > apple laptop I plan to buy. Setting up the > smb shares in nautilus was a simple matter. > I should probably set up a script to mount > them so they are accessible from the command > line and in applications, but I haven't got > around to that yet. Still, it doesn't worry > me. > > I'll probably stay with this distro for now. > It meets my needs in a rather unobtrusive > way, and I have adapted to using GNOME apps > pretty well. > > Anton > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html