Re: [tlug] newbie notebook question

[Niels Kobschaetzki <niels.k@example.com>]

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On 28 Dec 2004, at 05:51, Patrick wrote:

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> After about 2 years of hasseling a friend of mine, he finally decided 
> to
> try linux a couple of weeks ago... i suggested he try ubuntu even 
> though
> i have absolutely no experience with this distro, i have never even
> installed it. But i heard good things about it. My friend installed it
> and  he absolutely loves it.

and i hate it - had only problems with it:
first it had problems when i installed it after the first 8 gb of my 
hdd, then it didn't recognized my soundcard and my networkcard. my 
soundcard is an onboardchip which runs with the standard via '97-driver 
and my network-card is an old 3com...hardware which every distro 
supported until now...
btw. i had best experiences with a rpm-based distro espescially with 
laptops: suse pro
suse 9.1 could run everything on a thinkpad, even the softmodem, it 
recognized at once my gdi-laserprinter (which was always a work of at 
least an hour to run the thing and then having problems with 
dependencies because i needed an older version of ghostscript) and had 
never problems with except with one vaio-laptop.
but the distro is not that easy to upgrade even with their 
online-updater but a friend of mine said that it can run perfect with 
apt...

greetings

niels

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Is your Linux cute?
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