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On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:21, David Bell wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:17, viv wrote:
> > We have tried countless Linux distros on our little sub notebook and
> > they all run very slowly (or not at all). PCLinuxOS 2007 (as recommended
> > to me by Grandpa B at the Penzance event) is now installed and running
> > very well on it. I installed it on our big laptop previously and must
> > say that I am very impressed with it to the extent that it may woo me
> > away from Kubuntu. Thanks Grandpa B !
>
> I found 2 problems with it. The first was that on my box GRUB recognised
> the (regretable) existence of XP - but not Etch. Secondly, KMail seemed
> unstable when auto and manually checking more than one POP account and
> often froze. Being a cold wet day with nothing else to do, three installs
> plus updates didn't cure anything.
>
> Not complaining, as I know I can always rely on either "good ol' Etch" or
>; Kbuntu on my MacBook instead :)
>
> --
> W. Devon
> -----------
> A GNU/Linux user
I've just installed PCLOS 2008 on an 850MHz AMD, 375Mb RAM, 17 Gb hard drive
that I'm giving to a friend and it runs very well. But it doesn't have
Kmail or Kontact on it's repositories which may be because of the instability
mentioned. Thunderbird seems OK so I think I'll leave it for now.
George
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