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Article #606Re: Hullo All
From: David Maslen
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:53
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:53
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Addinall <addinall@addinall.net> writes: > 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. > What's your problem? Unrecognised hardware? If it were me I'd install using the Debian Squeeze netinst disk. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I agree that Debian default is fairly functional, the only reason you'd call it crap, is if you didn't understand it (which is entirely possible if you are new to linux). --
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,2f89be6c8b692337 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidcfc73a2246,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!exi-transit.telstra.net!pit-in2.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!61.9.128.156.MISMATCH!viwinnwcl01.internal.bigpond.com!viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: David Maslen <dmm@blue.homenet.org> Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Subject: Re: Hullo All Organization: Debian works for me! References: <f21683e3-1def-4c72-92eb-d8a626da325c@a9g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <8so483F4u2U15@mid.individual.net> <4b68933c-5ce8-4e05-bf6a-c858ba94b6f7@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <m2tyfquo8h.fsf@bigmac.hope> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uzvMeWtMeVbV/LLCM5yUw52OZW4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 39 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:53:50 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.191.74.173 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com 1298778831 124.191.74.173 (Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:53:51 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:53:51 EST