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From: Addinall
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:46

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On Feb 25, 8:26 am, Polly the Parrot <flatulantdi...@deadspam.com>
wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 19:28, Addinall wrote:
>
> > Nearly gave up, and gave UBUNTU 10.10 a try.
>
> > It worked!  And not only that, worked well.
>
> Must be horses for courses.
>
> I can only get Ubuntu 10.04 to work, the upgrade to 10.10 does not recognise
> my video card at all - no idea why.
>
> Same as install for Fedora, Mint, etc.

It is getting pretty crappy.  Ubuntu 10.10 was about the only thing
that would
run on this box.  OpenSolaris fucked up, OpenSuse was a disaster,
Fedora hasn't worked well for 3 years, vanilla Debian is crap....

I might try to find my old SCO install disks ;-)

Mark Addinall.

>
> But I must say 10.04 runs nicely;  sees my wireless card and Virgin
> Broadband modem.

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